Wannabe sticky??
 

I have been reading pprune for several years, and it seems to me that every few months a wannabe asks a question that was 'picked to death' only a short while before. I am afraid I for one am becoming a bit fed up with the repetiton (old age and being on a s*#t deployment can make you less tolerant than you were!). Why don't we start a 'wannabe sticky', which they could use as their starting point before asking a specific, no doubt previuosly answered, question?

Trying to be constructive here - what do you think??

Fantastic Idea :ok:

Hey! You want to try being here for 6 years - drives you potty.

We did at one time have a Wannabes Archive whereby people nominated and I chose a whole bunch of the most useful threads to appear in read only format in a forum called Wannabes Archive.

This was superceded by adding the Search function to the whole of PPRuNe thus making every post ever made available at the touch of a quite powerful search engine.

Its tempting to try to write a PPRuNe guide to all things Wannabe but to be honest there are plenty out there commercially available. Our strength lies in real time access to people in the business who are otherwise uncontactable. That and a feeling of fraternity with the thousands of other students and wannabes.

As always though - feedback and input is always welcome here.

Cheers

WWW

If you look at the Forum Home page there is a wannabe section -surely a separate Military Aircrew section could be added there, thereby removing the repetative "how do I pass.................' threads that appear here. Don't want to repress the wannabe enthusiasm that led us to join the mil.

Then we can all get on with the important business of slagging off the FAA and AAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :E

MIL WANNABES
 

Twinact wrote:

IMHO, we should get together with FAA and AAC and get on with the even more important business of slagging-off DPA and the politicians!

As a relative newcomer (about a year I think), I do get a bit fed up with the ever repeated questions about getting into and through Cranditz and the like. I am quite happy to post on the subjects, but agree that a separate area might be useful. Perhaps call it Mil Wannabes? Keep it under Mil Aircrew and we can pop in from time to time!

STH

Wannabe sticky?

Thanks, but I am already...

:p

I hate it when all the people on these forums tlk in code..,

FAA
AAC
DPA

what does al this mean?

FAA = Fleet Air Arm
AAC = Army Air Corps
DPA = ?

DPA = Defence Procurement Agency...

It's not code, it's the Military Aircrew forum. They're just TLAs we use day to day at work etc.

What we need is some sort of sticky post for the Wannabes to explain all this stuff...

:rolleyes:

Sir Toppham,

I'll take my tongue out of my cheek now!

But you have to admit thats how most topics end up!!!!!:cool:

I agree that there should be a seperate forum for:

Military Aircrew Wannabes

Just like the Fragrant Harbour forum which is subdivided into two sections. (Normal and Wannabes)

That way people can ask questions to the people who are in the know and want to help, instead of boring the crap out of the rest of us.:8

If Danny is monitoring - Any chance?

Don't want to exclude the enthusiastic youngsters, but give them, like other forums on this site, their own place and leave this forum for those who want to debate the best K/J model or why the AAC have aircraft at all!

The suggestion has been popped into Admin. Danny is somewhat otherwise engaged at the moment, but I'm sure that a reply will be forthcoming in due course.

We are currently in a period of Forums culling so I think that adding a new one as specialist as Military Wannabes is unlikely.

I agree its a world all of its own and that it might prove very attractive to Military Wannabes. However, consider - how many of YOU would read the forum on a regular basis year in year out?

I think its not many - in which case the Wannabes end up talking to themselves and just posting here anyway.

Military Wannabes posting on this forum have received sound advice and healthy inductions to banter. Its not particularly common to see forlone Military Wannabe posts withering on the vine nor generating a load of not-again-use-the-search posts from the regulars.

Feedback and input is - as always - more then welcome though.

Cheers

WWW

That will be a no then!

Ok, I was just asking, and as I said at the very beginning, I was trying to be constructive!!