Anyone ever think about making an electronic flight card system?
I was talking about this with one of our board members just yesterday.Anyone ever think about making an electronic flight card system?
I was talking about this with one of our board members just yesterday.
Overall a hard pass -- paper works well.
avoid having to pass physical objects (along with whatever microbes they may carry) from one person to another
Agreed. I'm thinking the LCO is the only one that touches the launch laptop/tablet, and the flyers send e-cards via wifi from their own phone/tablet. Definitely would need some good custom software to make this seamless.Typing on a shared laptop is worse IMHO -- users would spend too much time on it.
Agreed. I'm thinking the LCO is the only one that touches the launch laptop/tablet, and the flyers send e-cards via wifi from their own phone/tablet. Definitely would need some good custom software to make this seamless.
Not everyone has or wants a cell phone/tablet.
Would be nice - if we only had WiFi in the sage that covers 250 people or so......
...but either one person has to do all the hookups to igniters or there needs to be some way to effectively clean the clips between rounds of flights. Anyone have any brilliant ideas?
I see you biting your lip. That's a good boy. Anyone can grab the low hanging fruit.Oh, man. This is too easy. Must...resist...comment.......
No Thanks....
Requires a laptop (something like a Toughbook) at the LCO table that is readable in super-bright sunlight as well as rain & dust proof. Also all-day battery life.
Plus we would hamper pad assignments as stated above.
Where would users enter their information & announcer comments -- a second (third or fourth) laptop?
Lastly - would cause privacy concerns for our members - we destroy flight cards shortly after the statistics are extracted.
Overall a hard pass -- paper works well.
If the LCO has an iPhone or Android, he can be the hotspot. The app would need to have features for the LCO to receive and process the e-cards, a flyer would need to be able to send the e-card. A fancy feature would be for the LCO to assign a pad and have the result sent back to the flyer. I think the hardest part would be the authentication requirements - LCO setup, a unique ID for the LCO app for flyers to authenticate and login to. A goof app developer wouldn't find this too difficult if a decent set of requirements could be derived.Actually, I think that's easy to accomplish. I'm not talking about a wifi network that connects you to the internet. All you need is a local ad hoc network that allows the cellphones to talk to the LCO device.
As for the pad and igniter clips, load your rocket and then use hand sanitizer. Don't touch your face.
... The primary advantage of digitizing the flight cards would be to automate a lot of the other manual processes that happen a launch. Why would you manually assign pads when you have all the data electronically to optimize the pad distribution? ....
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