Standing Orders

610 Squadron Standing Orders

Introduction

As was stated in the Squadron stand-up document, 610 exists to maximise its members enjoyment of the game by working as a team to create an effective squadron for Red Team to use in the defeat of the evil Blue team.

Also as stated in the Stand-up document, the Squadron ethos can be summed up in four words:

Fun, Teamwork, Fairness, Professionalism

For a reminder of what is meant by each please refer to the copy of that document which was sent to you, and to which you implicitly agreed, or look in the open section of the squadron forum under the “What 610 is about” thread.

In order to give practical effect to both the Squadron purpose and its ethos there has to be a common standard of operating that will be employed by each and every 610 pilot. These common standards are expressed as a limited set of rules to which every pilot has already agreed (if only by not objecting to them when they were proposed) and with which they are expected to comply every time they fly in SoW. Those rules are the Squadron Standing Orders set out below.

Standing Orders

1: Get You and Your Plane Safe Home to Bembridge
Your prime duty, whilst doing your best comply with mission objectives and instructions from TopHat, is to come home and land safely with your aeroplane.

NB: Obviously the real world, in the shape of wife, children, cats, work and stuff, will sometimes get in the way - guidance on what is expected of you in such circumstances when a controlled landing at home base is not possible will be issued shortly.

2: Don’t Fly Solo on the SoW Server
Want to go on SoW? Then at least take/be a wingman. If there is nobody from 610 available then see if you can team up with someone one from TWC (aka 141 Squadron) they are our friends - just treat them as if they were one of us. The password to their Teamspeak channel is “mum”. Flying solo on SoW is asking to be shot down, never do do it.

3: Monitor Teamspeak
Whenever you are flying, even if only practicing on another server, monitor the Squadron’s TeamSpeak Channel.

4: Thou Shalt Not Go Off Free-Lancing
Remember 610 is part of a bigger team; as we expect other members of 610 to be there for us, so does the larger team expect 610 to be doing its job. 610’s job is to protect the UK, especially our bit in the South West Corner of the map, from German bombers and recon aircraft.

We do not tangle with enemy fighters unless we have no choice and we do not decide, “Oh, it’s very quiet let’s go over to France to see if we can find a fight”. If you feel like that sort of free-form, purposeless punch up, and who doesn’t from time to time, then do it on another server because it is the antithesis of everything 610 is about.

5: Turn Up for Squadron Play Time
Whilst 610 pilots are encouraged to fly (in pairs) on the SoW server as often as they want or can, we still need to regularly fly as a whole Squadron. After consultation it was decided that we should have a Squadron Play time (other squadron’s call them “Mission nights”, “Play time” fits more with 610’s ethos) on Wednesday evenings and the core time would be between 19:00 and 20:00 UK local time. Some members can be expected to be on from about 18:00 until 22:00 or even later, but everyone should be on ready to fly a mission (this is not training) by 19:00 and be able to stay until at least 20:00.

If a pilot cannot be there then they shall either make an entry in the Leave Book on the forum or, if that is not possible, send an email or SMS text message to either the Adjutant or the CO.

6. Kill the Buggers
An enemy aeroplane that gets home is going to come at us again. On the rare occasion you are flying over France, forcing an aeroplane down just means that it can be repaired and take to the skies against us once more. We need to kill them, in the air on the ground, going into land, wherever we find them.

I am obliged to TWC-Boo_Dog for the following advice about damaging enemy aeroplanes (he is talking about the trails coming out of a damaged enemy):

“If it’s white it’s still gonna fight,

If it’s Black it’s coming back”

No gentlemanly conduct, please. Kill the buggers! We want to see them go down in flames. If you can, without compromising your mission or your safety, shoot up any enemy aircraft that is on the ground; crash-landed or otherwise. If they on our side of the Channel we want to kill the pilot (pyswar ops, as our American cousins would say), if on their side we want the plane as well as the pilot destroyed.

Conclusion

Gents, there are just six rules. All are intended to promote our effectiveness as a team and hence your enjoyment of the game. Play by them.

Anyone with any questions/problems should contact the Squadron Adjutant.