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INTRODUCTION
To learn the Aerosim Desktop Trainer, the student must run lessons. A lesson teaches a
student how to perform one or more operations of the aircraft. This manual is intended to
be used by lesson developers to create lesson plans that teach different aspects of the
Desktop Trainer.
Segments. The lesson consists of one or more lesson segments. The lesson
planner divides the lesson into segments for better organization. As in an outline,
each lesson segment is intended to focus on a single topic indicated with a yellow
folder icon in Windows 95® (same icon used in the Microsoft Windows File
Manager® and Explorer®) indicating that there are events inside. The yellow
folder is preceded by a “+” or “–” sign in a small box.
Segments are numbered sequentially (Segment 1, Segment 2, …). If you insert
a segment between other segments, the segments are automatically re-
numbered.
Events. Events are the basic building blocks of the lesson. There are static events
such as text messages, bitmaps, and audio playbacks that you can present during a
lesson. You decide what the text messages and bitmaps will be and where on the
screen they will appear.
There are also interactive events that require student participation. These are
triggers, monitors, keystroke sequences, multiple choice tests, and selection
menus. These events let the student practice and reinforce topics. For example,
the interactive sequence of keystrokes requires the student to exactly repeat
the keystrokes set up by the lesson developer.
Lesson Name
Segment
Number
Segment Label
Events
Segment
Click on “–” to Description
close up display
of events for the
segment.
Event ID
Click on “+” to
display events Double-click on
in the segment. segment name to
label the segment.
Lesson Name. This is the name of the lesson that will be running. The example
lesson plan above has the name test_lesson. The Lesson Title shows the drive and
directory path where the lesson plan resides.
Segment Label and Segment Description are used to identify the segment for
jumping to the segment from somewhere else in the Lesson Plan or from another
Lesson Plan. You can enter a label and description if you double-click on the
segment entry.
The Events are shown preceded by blue arrows. The numbers following the event
name are identifiers. You can edit an event if you double-click on the event entry.
Each event has a unique number (ID) within a segment. Terminate/Remove
events can refer to events using this Event ID. The lesson planner
automatically assigns Events IDs and cannot be changed. Each Event ID is
enclosed in brackets immediately following the Event Name.
Preceding each Segment Name is a “+” or “–” sign. When the Lesson Plan is first
displayed, the segment names are displayed but the events within each segment are
not displayed. Click on the “+” sign to display all events within the segment. To
close the events list within a segment, click on the “–” sign.
Assign the Background - Then, you must assign it as the background lesson file
for your training lesson plan (e.g. Lesson_1.lpn) file.
This dialog box opens for you automatically when you begin a new file, but you can also
open the Lesson Properties dialog box by double-clicking on the first line of your lesson
plan file in the LPE window. This dialog box allows you to define the following properties
of a lesson plan file:
Database – You can define the path by typing it in the entry field, or by clicking on
Browse and selecting the directory.
Don’t reload the database option – Click this check box if you want to ignore the
path information you set for the lesson and simply use the database that is currently
running in the Aerosim flight simulation software (freeplay mode).
Lesson – You can define the path by typing it in the entry field, or by clicking
Browse and selecting the lesson that you want to specify as the background lesson
for this file.
Once the Nav database directory has been selected, click in the area displaying the .ndb
files to anchor the path and then click OK to close the window.
If you use the Browse method to specify the path for your background lesson a window
appears similar to the one below:
Once you have selected the LPN file to use as your background lesson, click OK to close
the window.
The background lesson is a lesson comprised of a single bitmap. In this example, the
background bitmap is the framed area with a slight gradient fill. This bitmap remains on
the screen throughout the lesson. All other events appearing in the foreground, such as
bitmaps, audio events, and text events are contained in the actual training lesson.
On the Lesson Toolbar, click on the Lesson icon to display the Lesson Menu.
Click on this icon