A pity but I can understand why. The whole organisation is too complex. Staff members are usually appointed for a specific task like ATC training, running events or being sector chiefs. The downside is that the appointment also lumps you in to a lot of other admin, running the Live Help desk, monitoring the forum and so on. It is all very time consuming and I can see that these additional duties rob the staff of the time they need for the task they joined IVAO in the first place.. I've not yet covered the full extent of IVAO's organisation but I've seen enough to show me that my appointment could easily swallow up all the time I allocate for controlling, training, running JHB and other pleasures so I will be turning down the TA9 position. It's almost a full time responsibility and I regret that I cannot commit to that. bones bones@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kev Townsend Sent: 01 April 2010 12:41 To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jhb] Re: ATC Course (Month 27) My latest mentor Adam Hillier has resigned from the Training Department! I'm starting to think it must be ME.......... best wishes Kev