Cockpit Conversation

I didn't send this, because it might be kind of inappropriate, and on closer inspection someone else on my team had followed up, and the candidate either ghosted us or turned out to be unsuitable after all. But someone needs to hear it.
Dear Pilot Whose Application I Just Found Unread In My Old E-Mail,...

We work in unpressurized aircraft, often at high altitude, wearing oxygen masks.  Hypoxia is a risk, and one of the symptoms of hypoxia is euphoria, the feeling that everything is fantastic. To mitigate this, crew members test O2 levels regularly and...

 So, it turns out that I spend enough of my waking moments writing the sort of things I used to blog about, mentoring pilots, troubleshooting airplanes, planning flights, and analyzing weather that it's the very last thing I I wan to do on my downtime...

 I thought as I wrote this to a pilot recently, that it's the sort of thing I used to write on my blog, except just doing it myself, demonstrating it, rather than being so pretentious as to tell anyone else to do it.
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