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No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:59 pm
by Tigertooo
Hear you thinking: we know, we need new trainees....got you again :))
No6_OTU at Sutton Bridge also needs a new CO.
I indeed resignated as Senior Training Officer and Top Brass has accepted.
Reason? Simple: I have done this for a bit more than 10 years now and with the new devellopements in Flight Sims, i feel the time has come to leave it to younger chaps, with new and fresh ideas on how to approach OTU with the new upcoming simulators ( BoS,DCS).
I am still a bit too old fashioned and want to stick with what was OTU ( and TP) for me: Il2 1946 Sturmovik.
I do realise there is no way back though, hence my resignation.A part of my Virtual and Real Life has ended.
I can assure you that those 10 years OTU were the very best in my Virtual life and i want to thank all of you for giving a Bloody Belgian the opportunity to lead an English OTU for the best online Wing there exist.
Surely i was helped with many others: BB, Tom,Cheese,Mothy,Hatter,Nummy & others. Big thank you to them.
As a nostalgic touch, i added a list of those chaps who contacted OTU in those 10 years. Makes me smile when seeing very strange nick names and names of forgotten TP pilots who passed OTU but quit anyhow.

Any volounteer to take the job, please send your application to Top Brass. I will of course provide the lucky one with the needed documents to approach a new trainee.

So my successor: give Mabel my regards

From me, a last time from No6_OTU at Sutton Bridge:
That is all, carry on


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Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:21 pm
by Handsome
Thank you, Tiger. :!!

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:28 pm
by Hunter
Thank you for a guiding light in the process of joining TP.

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:46 pm
by Jab
Huge amount of time and effort, thank you.

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 11:38 pm
by Merlin
Gosh that is a big list well done Tiger. :thumbup:

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:35 am
by Cheese
Without doubt,it is you Tiger that moulded every member that went through OTU.You where there first contact with this group and there fore showed them the right attitude and the right TP spirit.I still remember having sweaty hands and listening to every word that you said not knowing what was coming next.
A big thank you Tiger,you deserve a "special" medal for services to TP.

S!

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:58 am
by Moggy
Cheese wrote:Without doubt,it is you Tiger that moulded every member that went through OTU.You where there first contact with this group and there fore showed them the right attitude and the right TP spirit.I still remember having sweaty hands and listening to every word that you said not knowing what was coming next.
A big thank you Tiger,you deserve a "special" medal for services to TP.

S!
The order of the golden sandal with knee sock? :D

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 9:28 am
by Tom
Cheese wrote: A big thank you Tiger,you deserve a "special" medal for services to TP.
Reckon we could get a chain so he could wear this as a medal?

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Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 9:41 am
by Bigbyte
Well done Tiger. I completely understand your decision as ten years is an eternity in the virtual world. OTU is a special place in Tangmere and sets us apart as a group having standards that must be met before one can join. I still fondly remember the OTU missions that I took as a trainee with Malc. I also did a stint as C/O OTU myself for a while. Great fun. I'm sure out of this fine bunch we'll find a chap of the correct caliber to take up the reigns. I'm very keen that the OTU ethos remains however. Perhaps we can have a couple of 'train the trainer' sessions? The sieve that is OTU is key to allowing the right sort of folks into our group.

Once again, good show Tiger :-bd

Edit: typo

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:04 am
by Tom
Hear hear BB.

I have one chap lined up. If anyone else wants to be an instructor please say.

@ Tiger - I omitted thanks for all the hard work you've done. Over the last 3 years especially the frustrations have grown as there have not been many new recruits and many who were not appropriate. I give thanks for Spartan (despite him buggering off at Duxford and, even worse, being a ManUre supporter) and Dickie (despite him being a real life pilot with a SpitSim etc).

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:29 am
by Reggie
Well done Tiger, I also still remember the tense stress of OTU when I was taken by the original Ginger and Punch back in the day. The feeling of passing was great and felt like a real achievement.

You have been a huge help to me as well with developing the new site as far as quality checking the Pilot Manual and Training Manuals and so on, so to echo every else, thank you for so many years dedicated service to TP and OTU, you are a fine example.

:thumbup:
Tom wrote:Hear hear BB.

I have one chap lined up. If anyone else wants to be an instructor please say.
Haha, I notice you say you "have one lined up" rather than someone has volunteered - so I guess this is someone you have earmarked then, rather than someone who has approached you with interest. . . .we all know who ;)

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:39 am
by Tom
Reggie wrote: Haha, I notice you say you "have one lined up" rather than someone has volunteered - so I guess this is someone you have earmarked then, rather than someone who has approached you with interest. . . .

A combination of the two.

:)

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:34 pm
by Jacko
Thanks Tiger for your dedication to te OTU and TP in general. I remember you taking me up for the last flight back in late 2007. Not sure I understood a word you said due to the accent but I think you were generous enough to let me through into this quite amazing experience of TP and will always appreciate you as a person as well.

Dank u mijn vriend

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 4:50 pm
by Spartan
Tiger, as one of the last of the many (did you see what I did there :) ), I would like to say thank you for persevering with my rather basic skills at OTU (those were nervous, sweaty palm flights), and helping me to make my progression to 145.

Very much appreciated.

Re: No6_OTU needs more fresh and new blood...

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:15 am
by Dickie
And as the second to last of one of the last of the many, I'd also like to thank you for your years of service at the OTU. <S>