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First - make sure that the Flying Order for the Sequence or
Group is correct ● If you have not set up a Flying Order for the sequence or group you are marking then every Pilot will be available in the Pilots name drop-list to be marked. ● If you have set up a Flying Order for your Sequence or Group and any of the Pilots have been 'Cut' then they will not be presented in the Pilots name drop-list to be marked. The blue information line at the bottom of the form shows the status of the Flying Order. |
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 In the sequences drop-list select the Sequence or Group you wish
to work from.Set either the First or Last name radio button to display Pilots names as you prefer. You can tick one of the 3 check boxes to show the the Flying Order, the ACRO Pilot number or the confidential Pilot's ID. Now you can set the Check-Sheet checkboxes on the right to show specific info on each page that you output, and select the Pilot whose marks you want to enter. Finally click the "Open the Pilots Score Sheet" button and a new Raw Marks entry sheet will created and displayed for the selected Pilot. |
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Format
and appearance of the Marks Entry form In every case the marks-entry form will be sized to provide exactly the correct range of judges and figures necessary to completely enter all of the appropriate marks. The form is complete when every slot has a mark entered in it, except in the case of the blue Chief Judges 'CHZ's only' column where only HZ's can be entered, not marks. For all other marks and penalties slots a mark must be entered - a blank slot does not work as a zero, and ACRO will complain with a suitable error message! |
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| Entering your Pilot Marks | ||||||||
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Key-strokes
for marks entry Entries take one key-press only, and the highlight moves directly to the next slot - the graphic below (click the Keyboard icon on the marks form top-right corner) shows which keys to press.
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 You can revise any of the keys in order to
accommodate alternate keyboard layouts and key positions - click the
keyboard graphic at top-right on the marks form or the Change Keycodes button in File > User Options also accesses this feature. |
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| If you
enter some marks for the wrong Judge or Pilot ... There are two very useful Swap Marks utilities on the Toolbox menu that provide quick solutions if you have entered data into the wrong judges column or Pilots sheet. |
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| Entering the Penalties If a Pilot has no penalties just press '0' and the highlight will move to the next one, or press the key-combination CTRL-Spacebar to automatically enter all as zero's. Otherwise key-in the number given for each one and use TAB / Shift-TAB or the mouse to reposition the highlight. Time Penalties for the 4-minute Final Freestyle  In
this case you will see there are TWO slots - one for Mins and the other
for Secs. Do NOT simply enter zeros here if the flight time is within
the allowed 3m30s to 4m0s time-span - that tells ACRO that the flight took
zero time and there should be a 3m 30s penalty! You MUST separately enter the
minutes and the seconds as recorded by the Chief Judge on
the Flight Summary Sheet, and ACRO will calculate whether a penalty is
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Reviewing the Raw Marks Check-Sheets When all the marks are entered click the "Save and Output" button to produce the printed Pilots Raw Marks Check-Sheet, then click Next Pilot to select the next Pilot to enter marks. |
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Disqualifying a Pilot It is essential that you faithfully enter all the marks for every Pilot in the contest file, even if the Pilot is disqualified. You should always do this, so that if there is an investigation at or after the event the correct scoring data and the reason for the disqualification will be accurately stored for this pilot in the contest file, and if authorised it can immediately be restored. Entering all zeros or HZ's creates an untrue record, and is the wrong solution. On the main menu under Marks Processing or in the Pilots score-sheet Toolbox menu click the Disqualify or Re-Instate a Pilot option to formally disqualify a Pilot in a sequence. This process is fully described in a separate page here. |
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Alternate page line highlighting, Pilots photos and
Team flags The Output menu provides options for switching the Team flags, Pilot photos and the print line highlighter ON and OFF - if the form does not show features you expect, review this menu. |
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Special sounds If the sounds are ON (see File > User Options) ten's and HZ's get special attention, a 'wrong key' warning is given, and each new column of marks is announced by 'Next Judge'. This aural feedback is specially useful when the Scoring Director is concentrating on entering data from a large number of Form-A's, helping to ensure that each Judge's marks are accurately transcribed. |
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"Read-Back" for your marks entered The Toolbox menu provides two options for English language audio "Read-Back" of your marks, both while you are entering them and also if you later wish to check them. |
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