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Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 08:32
by DaveB
Ahh.. good one TM
Shots in that livery are few and far between. Quite a few of her with different equipment fits wearing all white and jam-sandwich stripe but I've only seen 1 wearing that livery. Did you sit up front in that Tony or was your gear in the cabin? The model has an observers monitor in the front with an alternating set of b&w camera shots

Very clever
Unfortunately, the airfile on the ND AS350 is a complete load of rot.. so much so that reading various blogs online, it seems many folk have asked for their money back

I didn't read them before I bought it last year

I use a different airfile
Was gonna try the white livery.. might give that one a shot too
Cheers mate
ATB
DaveB

Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 08:50
by Vancouver
That is a very attractive livery.
Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 09:31
by tonymadge
We worked both front and rear Dave, camera in the front command and control in the rear. That livery was to replace the horrid jam sandwich one.
Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 22 Feb 2013, 10:19
by DaveB
Thanks Tony
Yes.. it looks more 'mod' than the rather plain all white/jam sandwich liver

I've found a couple more shots so it might be a goer. That said.. since watching the 1-11 soundfile vid this morning, I've had nothing but BSOD's so I'm not sure how far I'll get with any more painting

I don't think it was the soundfile link that did it although windows chucked up an error in MS Malware after the first event. The only new thing loaded has been a Java update yesterday and the pc wasn't switched off until last night. I'm suspicious that since the restart this morning, that update has taken hold and spits out any explorer browser be it IE or windows. In desparation, I've been into Safe Mode and gone back to Wed using system restore. So far.. so good. Java has just popped up and told me there's an update. It can whistle

Yesterday's was 30-something.. 35.. 39.. can't remember now but I'm not going there again
ATB
DaveB

Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 23 Feb 2013, 05:38
by thehappyotter
Passed the shortlisting process
Two day assessment now before they even allow me near an aircraft for a flight test. I'm not a nervous character but I'll admit to wanting to pass this enough to be twitching a bit!
Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 23 Feb 2013, 08:07
by DaveB
Well done so far Rob
I can understand your nervousness.. just work on the assumption that 'nerves' are good
ATB
DaveB

Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 23 Feb 2013, 08:16
by tonymadge
Good luck Rob, nerves are good

Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 23 Feb 2013, 21:10
by Vancouver
Result! So far. Good luck. Do they give you any clue as to what sort of stuff you should be researching and/or supplying any reading material prior to the assesment?
Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 23 Feb 2013, 21:27
by Vancouver
Being
too keen can sometimes be tricky and counter -productive. If I can relate 2 instances. I had a colleague, ex Blues & Royals, obviously keen horseman, instructor, had even represented the army in the Royal Tournament at Earl's Ct. Good thief taker. Wanted to get into the Met's Mounted Division. Took him 3 applications, Met didn't like the way the Army rode horses

. Another colleague ex 2 Para and firearms instructor, Falklands vet, wanted PT17 (in those days it was D11 the firearms branch) terrifyingly fit, used to do those three Peak things. Refused multiple times, but eventually got it. Again a dislike of Army techniques which is understandable but some of the people they accepted made me worry & wonder.
Mostly with these elitist postings, it's a case of If you face fits. In the Met a lot went on the "handshake".
Good luck
Re: Who's Office might this be?
Posted: 25 Feb 2013, 13:01
by thehappyotter
Thanks guys.
They did Alex, I'm currently sat brushing up on my map reading skills!
Your post shows some good examples. It was well known that, before it was sadly disbanded, our mounted section much preferred to recruit people with no riding experience at all so they could mould them to their style. Always put me off as ex Mrs Otter owned a horse and I have far too many bad riding habits!