Teaching
So I spent a good 2 hours today teaching a colleague about FMS Analyst.
FMS Analyst is the program I have written for interacting with the FMS that I work with. It’s designed for data collection, but in order to facilitate it it has all sorts of bells and whistles so that the user can focus on the data and not the implementation.
Anyways, it’s still kind of complicated. I’ve written a HOWTO for a specific scenario in addition to the user’s manual, and we went over the HOWTO piece by piece until the guy understood what was going on. It took a while. Not that he’s not a bright guy; FMS Analyst is pretty complicated and he had never worked with it before. He’s read the user’s manual and the HOWTO, but reading the documentation and hands-on experience are two entirely different beasts.
So we got it mostly working, except the FMS crapped out. We were running part two of study one of the KLAS scenario, but we ended up only getting part one data, because it failed to correctly enter in the route restrictions for FUZZY. Also, I think I cleared an error message that needs to be recognized, and so missed one of the key points in the flight. I fixed that problem, anyways.
So FMS Analyst is going pretty well. :)