You snipped the rest of my post...by legal definition, if
you are paid you are professional. But you can be
incompetent, unethical, criminal and just sloppy.
I also know that there are many private pilots who have
better skills and are more "professional" in the way the fly
than the airline pilots who failed to turn the engine
anti-ice ON before taking off from DC, the airline pilots
who ran out of fuel on a trip from South America to NYC and
crashed, totally out of fuel on Long Island, the mechanics
who forgot to install all the fasteners on the tail of a
Beech 1900 that crashed in Denver, the ... need we need to
go on, every pilot, mechanic, or other person can make
mistakes and some deliberately do shoddy work. Some pilots
force the issue with duck under approaches, or other "stupid
pilot tricks."

You used Professionalism, a different word and meaning, I
said professional which indicates paid.

I don't mind if you and I disagree, it is kind of fun, just
fully quote me.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
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| If they are paid, they are professional,
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| No. If they are paid, they are paid, that's all.
Professionalism comes
| from within. If their interest and concern with job
performance corresponds
| only to the number of dollars they're paid, they're
whores.
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