Originally Posted by
Wensleydale
I do not remember learning how to optimise the sensors on the OCU course prior to joining a crew - mind you, that is over 25 years ago and age is a great leveller......and I didn't remember much from the course at the time!
29 years.
I remember one lesson vididly - our USAF XO - telling us that he was going to instruct us on the intercom system and would be using chalk and talk and an actual intercom box as an instructional aid.
As he was teaching a bunch of aircrew with well over 10,000 hours and all of whom had used the identical box
zzzzzzz after the ritual p1ss-take of course.
'twas he too that said "That'll be another beer in the bothy" as I casually (I confess) hit the transmit button and 360 equally casually recorded it and played it back for the next hour during the CC.