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Self Study Exercises For Radar Students

Andy Ford

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To coincide with the impending release of the new S3 syllabus, the department has created a number of simulator scenarios for EuroScope.

The purpose of these scenarios is to allow radar students to practice specific competencies on their own, with a few tips and aspects to consider provided - thus avoiding the distractions of trying to learn many things at once and also imperfect pilots. These are more directed towards the practical aspects of Approach Radar such as vectoring, rather than having a full simulation with pilots and voices. They also provide a means by which new students can familiarise themselves with basic principles such as judging turns and the effects of speed on turns and descents. For transferring controllers, it gives them the opportunity to practice their techniques in UK airspace before their validation session.

The scenarios are spread out across a number of the UK training aerodromes, as the skills should be applicable more-or-less anywhere - but any specific local rules are documented in the readme.

It is expected that students will attempt the relevant scenario to practice between sessions, if their mentor identifies an area for improvement. Students that wish to get a head start on their training (hint, hint) may also benefit from having a look through the scenarios once they have a training place (there are plenty of opportunities to observe controllers on the network to see some of the techniques required).

Instructions on how to set up the local EuroScope FSD server for EuroScope 3.2, as well a guide to each scenario is provided.

If anyone has any feedback to improve the exercises, or wishes to suggest a new exercise - please let us know and we can update the pack.

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Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson

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It may, perhaps, be useful if the student could also practice holding  aircraft and this facility could easily be included in the merger files. All my training vectoring scenarios include a holding facility to give the student this option.

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Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson

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5 hours ago, Jim Johnson said:

Additionally, I also gave the student a mentors playback of the exercise  as a reference. of one way of completing the task. Scenarios have also been developed for tower training following a similar pattern, but this  may be more suitable for another forum as it involves a comprehensive ground network and controller pack.for EGGP!

 

 

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John Pettit

John Pettit

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Andy Ford has said:

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Instructions on how to set up the local EuroScope FSD server for EuroScope 3.2, as well a guide to each scenario is provided.

Could you explain how, please?

I followed steps 1 and 2 OK, but in step 3a, I have "Start Simulator Sweatbox Session" - not 'server'.

In step 3c it asks for server change to "localhost" - there is no 'localhost' displayed in my Server box.

Step 3d completed OK.

As a result when I try to 'Connect' I cannot proceed any further and get an error message:

"Vatsim server found while non-Vatsim server was requested"

Sounds good when I can get it to work. Also I understand there are no scenarios for EGGP, my training airfield. It seems slightly odd that I have to learn another airfield or airfields just to make use of the scenarios.

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Andy Ford

Andy Ford

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Sorry, I will make the instructions clearer in the next release :)

Yes you will need to select  "Start Simulator Sweatbox Session" as well as typing localhost into the server box. It's not a VATSIM official server, but is shorthand for 127.0.0.1 -  your own PC.

The purpose of the scenarios is that they are airfield agnostic - you shouldn't need any airfield specific information for them (and we should provide any key information that you do need). We're aiming to teach generic skills that can be used anywhere, rather than how to control a specific radar position :)

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John Pettit

John Pettit

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Great stuff, and many thanks Andy - I shall now give them a good going over  ;)

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Usama Ahmed

Usama Ahmed

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On ‎27‎/‎04‎/‎2018 at 23:58, Andy Ford said:

Just so people are aware, there is a link to the EuroScope FSD VATSIM Public License in the document (we'll change the colour in the next release to make it more obvious).

The file is here: http://www.euroscope.hu/license/PublicVatsimLicence.lic.txt

Hi,

I can't seem to get any file when I click on that link Andy, It gives me long text instead? Do I need to copy and save that text on notepad?

Regards,

 

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Usama Ahmed

Usama Ahmed

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11 minutes ago, Usama Ahmed said:

Hi,

I can't seem to get any file when I click on that link Andy, It gives me long text instead? Do I need to copy and save that text on notepad?

Regards,

 

Got it working now!

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Adam Farquharson

Adam Farquharson

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On ‎06‎/‎06‎/‎2018 at 18:19, Usama Ahmed said:

I can't seem to get any file when I click on that link Andy, It gives me long text instead? Do I need to copy and save that text on notepad?

I have the same problem, I was just looking to get used to how sweatbox works on a local host but I can't find a way to set one up

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Nick Marinov

Nick Marinov

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2 hours ago, Adam Farquharson said:

 I have the same problem, I was just looking to get used to how sweatbox works on a local host but I can't find a way to set one up

Copy the long string (which is the licence itself) and paste it in a text file. After that, you need to rename the file from fileName.txt to fileName.lic and when you load it in the local server it should work. ? 

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Adam Farquharson

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59 minutes ago, Nick Marinov said:

Copy the long string (which is the licence itself) and paste it in a text file. After that, you need to rename the file from fileName.txt to fileName.lic and when you load it in the local server it should work.

thanks

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Adam Farquharson

Adam Farquharson

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Edit: fixed now, needed to name the file PublicVatsimLicence.lic or it doesn't work while I thought it could be anything as long as the content is the same the extension is .lic

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