GPS work...
Jun. 19th, 2002 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpNot that it's essential, but having the GPS unit crap out on me bugs me, so I called Magellan support. They introduced me to a reset sequence (I knew there was one, though I don't recall seeing it in the manual), so now the unit is outside, sucking down signals from several satellites and rebuilding what the Magellan rep called the unit's "almanac."
I just called the office, too. Everything seems nominal for today's sim. I just hope it goes better than yesterday's session, where a decision was made early on in the scenario to stand down from a rendezvous attempt, which left about 6 hours of the sim to go.
During those hours, the sim team (the people who are in charge of the hardware that simulates reality for the flight controllers and crew) scrambled to come up with a feasible set of other "mals" (malfunctions) to keep everyone busy. As it was, the Russian members of the sim team came up with such imaginative mals, the sim supervisor (the sim team lead) wanted to wait until after the end of the sim to introduce them, just to see what their ultimate effects would be.
I didn't stick around. Neither did the folks I was working for.
Why am I babbling on like this? I have things to do!
Cheers...
I just called the office, too. Everything seems nominal for today's sim. I just hope it goes better than yesterday's session, where a decision was made early on in the scenario to stand down from a rendezvous attempt, which left about 6 hours of the sim to go.
During those hours, the sim team (the people who are in charge of the hardware that simulates reality for the flight controllers and crew) scrambled to come up with a feasible set of other "mals" (malfunctions) to keep everyone busy. As it was, the Russian members of the sim team came up with such imaginative mals, the sim supervisor (the sim team lead) wanted to wait until after the end of the sim to introduce them, just to see what their ultimate effects would be.
I didn't stick around. Neither did the folks I was working for.
Why am I babbling on like this? I have things to do!
Cheers...
