Just a thought; do you think setting up 4 pads per bank instead of the normal 6 would help? Richard Dierking On Tuesday, June 26, 2012, David Reese wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:04:24 -0700, Kenneth Brown > <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > I hope that there will be some more ideas on streamlining the launch > process. We can refine as we go along, but not getting something in place > is criminal. > > > This. > > Wait times have *always* been an issue at ROCStock. Coordination between > PM and LCO is the greatest challenge; at RS last month, there was a period > when rockets (none of which were mine) had been sitting on the range for > upwards of a half hour, and I got peeved enough that I went up, bumped the > existing pad manager from their position, and started feeding cards to the > LCO. We had the range cleared in <10 minutes. > > I think the issue here might be one of pad organization. Launches that > I've attended with extraordinarily high throughput lay out the range using > a bank/pad method (e.g., A1-8 is front row left, B1-8 is front row right, > C1-8 is middle row left, D1-8 is middle row right). This seemed to help > keep the pad manager's mental process clearer - to launch the right bank, > rather than grabbing the cards for pads 9-16 and 25-32, they know to grab > all the cards for banks B and D and feed them to the LCO. It also seemed > easier for the LCO to remember which banks were closed and open, thus > preventing pad helpers from running people out to a bank that's been > waiting for a while. > > On the training issue, this is probably a bit much, but MDRA does videos > to help train pad managers and RSOs: > http://www.mdrocketry.org/membership/howto/#PMRSO Their process is a > little different than ours, but having training aids like this would > dramatically help speed up the process, I think. > > D > -- > ROC-Chat mailing list > roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <javascript:;> > //www.freelists.org/list/roc-chat > >