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Post by baronbeeza on May 3, 2012 13:43:36 GMT 12
If you won $100 would you; A) Buy flowers for your girlfriend. B) Build a bomb shelter in the backyard. Sorry I really do forget the other two choices, - I hope they were really not relevant. Good luck with the study  That goes for the other young hopefuls here. You guys should be reading and taking all this info in. The Selection Board is made up of Officers from various branches, they could be GD, Education, Engineering and invariably Psych. For many of them it will be their one and only selection panel and they will be looking for someone that they would be happy to live and work alongside. You can pass all the exams you care but if you upset any member of the panel then your chances will be diminished heaps. I chuckled at Phil's comments above about answering how the Officer idea was not his. I am sure that would go down very well with the President of the Board. He would appreciate the honesty and would be smiling within. Very well done. |
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Post by baronbeeza on May 5, 2012 12:44:31 GMT 12
I had a look at the website with the three Zeros flying in formation. www.cafsocal.com/Your not going to see this often... Is this (Your--- You're) thing an Americanism or is it young generation ? - I have been putting it down to poor education but we see it all over the place now. I guess the same could be said of (there, their and they're). I notice many of the forums I frequent have contributors that don't seem to know the difference. Just a grumpy old spelling Nazi I guess. When I was younger I used to have trouble with Major versus Mayor...... I have no idea why. Anyway you seem to grow out of it. We were talking about Officer pre-selection and the likes here. There is a very good reason for all those written replies in the various quizzes. I cannot recall ever seeing a RNZAF Officer that had problems spelling, that should mean something to the youngsters here. Forget the physics and maths, don't kill your chances on the first round with basic mistakes. The RNZAF is not in the game of employing Pilots........ you will be interviewed to determine your suitability for Officer training. If you are hopeless at basic English then you will need one of those fancy 'spell-checking pens'. You won't be tapping out the answers on a keyboard there. Those special pens are hard to come by but I have a few here I could sell at $1999 each. |
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Post by phil82 on May 5, 2012 17:33:33 GMT 12
Anyone recall Peter [PJ] McKay], Sqn Ldr GD Pilot? I seem to recall his name coming up here some time back.
He was OC the OTS Charm School at Wigram when I went through, and a really charming guy. Technically, I had finished my Term of Service with the RNZAF in February, and hadn't extended because had I been found wanting I was off to greener pastures as it were! I had a gentlemen's agreement with the aforementioned Al Parlane, done on a hand shake, that we'd leave the signing until the way ahead was clear. So I was very temporary! You wouldn't get that in today's PC world!
I joined the course as an Lac [and finished as a Pilot Officer] but halfway through I had one of the interviews with Peter McKay, both of us on the same side of his desk, no barriers you see, all very cunning, and I sat down and exposed my Socks, Wool, Airmen for the issue and his eyes zeroed in like a hawk's! "Don't you have any Officers' socks?"[Black!] "Nope never been issued because I'm not an officer"." Oh yes you are, now bugger off to get some socks".
That's how legends are made!
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Post by ngatimozart on May 5, 2012 23:22:34 GMT 12
I had a look at the website with the three Zeros flying in formation. www.cafsocal.com/Your not going to see this often... Is this (Your--- You're) thing an Americanism or is it young generation ? - I have been putting it down to poor education but we see it all over the place now. I guess the same could be said of (there, their and they're). I notice many of the forums I frequent have contributors that don't seem to know the difference. Just a grumpy old spelling Nazi I guess. When I was younger I used to have trouble with Major versus Mayor...... I have no idea why. Anyway you seem to grow out of it. We were talking about Officer pre-selection and the likes here. There is a very good reason for all those written replies in the various quizzes. I cannot recall ever seeing a RNZAF Officer that had problems spelling, that should mean something to the youngsters here. Forget the physics and maths, don't kill your chances on the first round with basic mistakes. The RNZAF is not in the game of employing Pilots........ you will be interviewed to determine your suitability for Officer training. If you are hopeless at basic English then you will need one of those fancy 'spell-checking pens'. You won't be tapping out the answers on a keyboard there. Those special pens are hard to come by but I have a few here I could sell at $1999 each. You're quite right about the spelling. When I was doing my undergrad degree back in the 1990's, the senior lecturers in the department were commenting about the inability of the younger students to spell properly, or to punctuate and structure their written work properly, because these basic skills were no longer adequately taught, nor mastered in primary and secondary school cirriculums. They said that if you could not get the real basics right in your work i.e., spelling etc., then the reader is going to be given cause to speculate on what else you haven't gotten right, such as the basic concepts of, or the necessary knowledge of what you are trying to communicate in your writing. Today the students don't have any excuse for spelling mistakes because of spellcheck, but it is quite amazing about how many who don't use it, or if they do, it's set to the US dictionary and not the NZ one. You lose marks at Canterbury if you use the US spelling because we have our own dictionary. You lose marks for spelling mistakes anyway. Yes, pens do not have spellcheck ,so brush up on your spelling. remember here in NZ we spell the UK way, not the Australian or US. |
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Post by flyjoe180 on May 10, 2012 16:32:34 GMT 12
'Gotten' is an Americanism too. If it wasn't for the new fuel chain I think the letter Z would have become zee and not zed as it is correctly known in NZ English.
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Post by ngatimozart on May 10, 2012 17:26:18 GMT 12
'Gotten' is an Americanism too. If it wasn't for the new fuel chain I think the letter Z would have become zee and not zed as it is correctly known in NZ English. My apologies. I stand corrected. |
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