[roc-chat] Re: Separate LPR area at ROCtober
- From: David Erbas-White <derbas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:49:20 -0700
On 6/26/2012 9:23 AM, Richard Dierking wrote:
NO!
There are plenty of times when even six pads aren't enough. The problem
isn't that there are too many pads waiting to be filled, it's a
management issue (time/pad management). It's the problem of not cycling
pads, even if a bank only has one rocket.
I had proposed some kind of chart last year, with a pointer, that could
simply have the hand rotated or some such to show which banks were
coming up next, but it was noted as 'too much additional work' to try
and show pad order.
I don't have the ultimate solution, but the BASELINE PROBLEM is that any
bank with a rocket on it should be fired in rotation with all other banks.
Here's one other possible solution/proposal -- have a little box
attached to the controller that would track which banks haven't been
flown (this would be 'reset' or 'changed' by detecting the arming switch
for the bank being thrown). It could then show something like the order
of the next upcoming three banks, thus 'reminding' the LCO what's up next.
I'm sure that others have simple, non-intrusive methods that we can come
up with -- but the bottom line issue is that the first person to put a
rocket on a bank should NOT have to be waiting half-an-hour for their
rocket to launch.
David Erbas-White
Just a thought; do you think setting up 4 pads per bank instead of the
normal 6 would help?
Richard Dierking
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