Interesting info here [but thread about
PALM? or 'hand held device' for LSOs]:
ARB 10-10: General Information· Optimum wind over the deck which minimizes burble effects and allows for optimal aircraft performance is 25-30 knots.
· When a 3.75 degree basic angle is commanded, LSOs shall use published ARB data for a 4.0 degree glide slope.
‘Paddles monthly’ Nov 2010
http://www.hrana.org/documents/NewsletterNovember2010.pdf [1.4Mb]
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Started a new thread about PALM device for LSOs (with old info on the 'Greenie Board' thread including earlier pages from this link[http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=4138.msg42652;topicseen#msg42652] (looks like a different smaller hand held in that photo there). Anyway here is the info. Different LSOs on the platform do different tasks so perhaps there are more than one hand held in use. Anyway this is one of them.
http://www.hrana.org/documents/PaddlesMonthlyOctober2010.pdf [1.1Mb]
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The Replacement for APARTSA major limitation that all LSOs have had to deal with are those posed by
our current system for tracking passes and conducting trend analysis:
APARTS. What the community has needed for a very long time is a
user-friendly and comprehensive system well beyond our current capability.
Thanks to LT Mike “Flanders” Ross and his team at the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey, an APARTS replacement is soon to become a reality.
In addition to being a more user-friendly program - with the additional
possibility of having an electronic hand-held device replace the LSO book on
the platform - this new program will expand our capabilities in several
other ways. First, the updated database will allow the LSO community to make
critical information available to higher-level decision makers for the
purposes of resource allocation. Why is this important? Up until now,
whenever the LSO community released their annual priorities, we had always
lacked any quantitative data to back up our requests. The new version of
APARTS will allow us to show why our priorities are what they are with the
relevant data to back it up.
Additional tracking will also be available. Through the new APARTS system,
LSOs will have access to pilot currency records, updated in near real-time.
The days of individual air wings and squadrons having to maintain their own
spreadsheets for the purposes of tracking pilot currency will be over. This
system will include fleet-wide information to track everything from night
currency to when pilots last received particular CQ lectures.
As for trend analysis, many of the details of how data will be collected and
displayed have yet to be finalized. However, the system will contain the
capability to store digital copies of debriefed trend analysis reports. This
will include everything from the date the debrief was conducted to the
particular LSO’s specific comments regarding pilot performance. A major
advantage is that senior squadron LSOs will have access to a prospective
squadron member’s trend analysis before they even check in. No longer will
senior squadron LSOs have to count on FNGs hand-delivering their trends from
the FRS as they will be immediately available via the APARTS."
