ET4: New feature – Member History

Aviation, Eurotest 4, Software

One of the really new features in ET4 is the Member History. It will track all changes made to a member´s VATSIM record over time.

Track changes using the "Member History" popup

This tracking is also a prerequisite to automatically issuing tokes when certain conditions are met, and marking tests as “done” once a rating upgrade has occurred. Bottom line: less work for you, guys.

Feel free to comment, either here, or in the VATEUD forum.

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ET4: Manual evaluation

Aviation, Eurotest 4, Software

Gentlemen, please have a look at how manual evaluations (should we call them “review”? Sounds better somehow, methinks) will look in the future.

The admin menu will contain a list of “recurring tasks” with badges showing the number of waiting items next to them, if any.

Admin menu: Recurring Tasks

Click on the link and you will be taken to the manual evaluations that are waiting.

Waiting evaluations

Clicking on the test ID will take you to the review form. After some general information (about the member and the test) you´ll see the questions that need manual review.

The review form

Most notable are the fields for comments to the candidate, and internal notes (you could put the reasons for your decision there).

Some javascript trickery automatically puts the notes from the “HINTPASS” and “HINTFAIL” fields of the question into the comment box, if you click the respective radio buttons “Correct” or “Wrong”.

Finally, when you submit the form, ET4 will check if any questions are marked as “postpone decision”. If any are found, the review decisions will just be stored for later; if not, the final test results are calculated and ET4 will do its duty.

Please let me know what you think of this, and whether anything is missing… Thanks.

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Space balloon wipes out car – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Aviation, Hardware, Rants

Space balloon wipes out car

via Space balloon wipes out car - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Trashing a multi-million dollar equipment

Scientists are always finding new ways to burn money, and fast. Their newest method: Releasing a “weather ballon” type ballon too early, trashing the multi-million dollar equipment hanging beneath it in the course, wrecking a minivan, almost destroying another car and nearly kill the people in it.

Click the link to view a video of it… if you like Will it blend?, then you will just love this one.

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