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Downwind.Maddl-Land · 12-13-2008, 02:06 PM

Gnomey, when you do the team exercises in the hangar, find out if anyone has any skills that will help (knot-tying, physical strength or lightness). Then thoroughly BRIEF your Team on the plan carefully so that everyone knows what YOU intend and what THEY are going to do. At the end of the brief, select a team member and quickly CHECK that they understand the PLAN (ie have you communicated it clearly); do not get worked up if you are going to run out of time to complete the exercise its the LEADERSHIP qualities they are looking for: be positive, decisive and encouraging; when someone does well be generous in the praise but don't damn failures. And maintain a sense of humour!

Oh, by the way; JOLLY good luck!!!!!!

Gnomey · 12-14-2008, 09:44 AM

Cheers guys.

I will take a note of the Downwind, will certainly come in useful. I already knew it wasn't the challenge that was being tested by the leadership qualities. Most groups don't complete the challenge.

Gnomey · 01-24-2009, 10:57 AM

Right heading off tomorrow (if the trains work). It is going to take 9 hours (with 4 changes) to do a journey that should be 5 or so (and direct) due to engineering works and it being a Sunday and all that crap. Think I have prepared it all fine. Done a a fair amount of hand, eye coordination practice recently as well as Speed Distance Time and the problems they provide on top of current affairs work. So I should be prepared enough for the Aptitude, the interviews and the group work. Just going to get through the medical and physical now...

Any final points are welcome.

rochie · 01-24-2009, 11:01 AM

good luck and my very best wishes Gnomey

Heinz · 01-24-2009, 11:11 AM

Good luck mate!

Glider · 01-24-2009, 12:48 PM

All the best

Captain Dunsel · 01-24-2009, 01:53 PM

Best of luck to you!

CD

Airframes · 01-24-2009, 05:32 PM

Just be confident of your own abilities; best of luck Hugh, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Gnomey · 01-24-2009, 07:58 PM

Thanks guys, I'll let you know how it goes.

Gnomey · 01-27-2009, 07:11 AM

Well that was a bit anti-climatic.

I'm back home now after completing the aptitude tests. The reason? If I went any further with the course I would have to repeat it all again next January if I wanted to graduate (if completed I would of been doing Initial Training in the summer which would mean I missed my final semester of University). Because of this I choose to leave after the aptitude tests so that I can complete University before starting my initial training (if I get through) and I didn't want to to the aptitude tests again and risk failing them.

So in short, I got pilot on the aptitude tests (

) and because I didn't want to do the whole course again next year, I choose to leave and complete the rest of the course in the summer. This is the option they offered me to allow me to complete my degree without having to repeat the whole of OASC.

Still the day I was down there was great fun and I am looking forward to go back to it in the summer.

lesofprimus · 01-27-2009, 07:18 AM

Excellent news Hugh, sounds like u got the pilot slot u were wanting.... Way to go man...

rochie · 01-27-2009, 07:23 AM

well done Gnomey, congatulations

Glider · 01-27-2009, 07:28 AM

So far so good, could be a lot worse

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 01-30-2009, 07:07 PM

Way to go my friend!

Gnomey · 03-09-2009, 03:49 PM

Right quick update.

Week before last I phoned up Cranwell to arrange a visit down to continue where I left off. Wherein the promptly said that because I had left I had left and had failed the aptitude tests. At which point I corrected them and told them what the review officer had said and gave them my reference number. At which point they went "oh" and started arranging things for me to return. So I am returning to Cranwell to finish from where I left off on the 5th of July which I am really looking forward to.

My 3 Branch choices are as follows: 1) Pilot, 2) Intelligence and 3) Medical Officer (Bursary though Medical School).

12-14-2008, 09:44 AM	#17
Gnomey "World Traveller" Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 15,224	Cheers guys. I will take a note of the Downwind, will certainly come in useful. I already knew it wasn't the challenge that was being tested by the leadership qualities. Most groups don't complete the challenge. __________________ "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr

01-24-2009, 10:57 AM	#18
Gnomey "World Traveller" Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 15,224	Right heading off tomorrow (if the trains work). It is going to take 9 hours (with 4 changes) to do a journey that should be 5 or so (and direct) due to engineering works and it being a Sunday and all that crap. Think I have prepared it all fine. Done a a fair amount of hand, eye coordination practice recently as well as Speed Distance Time and the problems they provide on top of current affairs work. So I should be prepared enough for the Aptitude, the interviews and the group work. Just going to get through the medical and physical now... Any final points are welcome. __________________ "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr

01-24-2009, 11:01 AM	#19
rochie Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: billingham nr middlesbrough uk Posts: 3,115	good luck and my very best wishes Gnomey __________________ "We're not easily frightened. Also we know how hard it is for an army to cross the Channel — the last little corporal to try it came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall! ...and even then we won't listen!" quote from B.O.B movie

01-24-2009, 11:11 AM	#20
Heinz Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria Posts: 6,742	Good luck mate! __________________

01-24-2009, 07:58 PM	#24
Gnomey "World Traveller" Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 15,224	Thanks guys, I'll let you know how it goes. __________________ "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr

12-13-2008, 02:06 PM	#16
Downwind.Maddl-Land Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: York, England Posts: 267	Gnomey, when you do the team exercises in the hangar, find out if anyone has any skills that will help (knot-tying, physical strength or lightness). Then thoroughly BRIEF your Team on the plan carefully so that everyone knows what YOU intend and what THEY are going to do. At the end of the brief, select a team member and quickly CHECK that they understand the PLAN (ie have you communicated it clearly); do not get worked up if you are going to run out of time to complete the exercise its the LEADERSHIP qualities they are looking for: be positive, decisive and encouraging; when someone does well be generous in the praise but don't damn failures. And maintain a sense of humour! Oh, by the way; JOLLY good luck!!!!!!

01-24-2009, 12:48 PM	#21
Glider Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Posts: 3,655	All the best

01-24-2009, 01:53 PM	#22
Captain Dunsel Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Near McGuire AFB, NJ Posts: 165	Best of luck to you! CD

01-24-2009, 05:32 PM	#23
Airframes Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 9,063	Just be confident of your own abilities; best of luck Hugh, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

01-27-2009, 07:11 AM	#25
Gnomey "World Traveller" Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 15,224	Well that was a bit anti-climatic. I'm back home now after completing the aptitude tests. The reason? If I went any further with the course I would have to repeat it all again next January if I wanted to graduate (if completed I would of been doing Initial Training in the summer which would mean I missed my final semester of University). Because of this I choose to leave after the aptitude tests so that I can complete University before starting my initial training (if I get through) and I didn't want to to the aptitude tests again and risk failing them. So in short, I got pilot on the aptitude tests () and because I didn't want to do the whole course again next year, I choose to leave and complete the rest of the course in the summer. This is the option they offered me to allow me to complete my degree without having to repeat the whole of OASC. Still the day I was down there was great fun and I am looking forward to go back to it in the summer. __________________ "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr

01-27-2009, 07:18 AM	#26
lesofprimus Minister of Whoopass Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi Posts: 17,506	Excellent news Hugh, sounds like u got the pilot slot u were wanting.... Way to go man... __________________ My IL2 Video Tribute to My Grandfather: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtzN5RuNNJk

01-27-2009, 07:23 AM	#27
rochie Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: billingham nr middlesbrough uk Posts: 3,115	well done Gnomey, congatulations __________________ "We're not easily frightened. Also we know how hard it is for an army to cross the Channel — the last little corporal to try it came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall! ...and even then we won't listen!" quote from B.O.B movie

01-27-2009, 07:28 AM	#28
Glider Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Posts: 3,655	So far so good, could be a lot worse

01-30-2009, 07:07 PM	#29
DerAdlerIstGelandet Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany Posts: 33,152	Way to go my friend! __________________ fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I]

03-09-2009, 03:49 PM	#30
Gnomey "World Traveller" Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 15,224	Right quick update. Week before last I phoned up Cranwell to arrange a visit down to continue where I left off. Wherein the promptly said that because I had left I had left and had failed the aptitude tests. At which point I corrected them and told them what the review officer had said and gave them my reference number. At which point they went "oh" and started arranging things for me to return. So I am returning to Cranwell to finish from where I left off on the 5th of July which I am really looking forward to. My 3 Branch choices are as follows: 1) Pilot, 2) Intelligence and 3) Medical Officer (Bursary though Medical School). __________________ "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr

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