Operating Procedures Manual: Fill & Download for Free

One morning, a user, for whose company I had recently installed Oracle Financials, called me at my office to tell me: “The entire system is dead and unresponsive. Nothing you installed is working at all.” This was accompanied by the usual hysteria, name-calling, blaming, etc. (Silicon Valley). After trying to talk her through everything that I thought could be the problem, I told her I had to drive up to her company anyway for a lunch meeting, so just leave everything just the way it was and I would fix it when I arrived on site. When I got on site, I found that she was “clicking” on an MS Word doc that was the procedure manual for how to operate the Oracle system. She accessed this Word doc from a shortcut on her desktop and it opened up to an image/screenshot of the Oracle sign on form, and that Word image was what she was using to try and access Oracle. I showed the user where the actual Oracle sign on shortcut was, and the system came up just fine. I never got any Thank You for my brilliant “solution”, the user just kind of glared at me like: “Well, this is all somehow your fault anyway.” Well, I guess that’s why they call it “Support”.Update: To all of you who have viewed and upvoted: Thank you. May your IT careers be long and prosperous. And may your support experiences never be as surreal as this one. If you are ever in the Wine Country,stop by and say Hi. Matt

SAM Simulator. SAM SimulatorIt’s a small, free game (or should I say “simulator”) that completely accurate simulate all operational procedures and firing operations of a variety of Soviet SAMs.Yes, these are the screenshots from this “game”. Yes, all buttons and switches are clickable and moreover, they are operational just as real lifes! You gonna spend A LOT of time reading manuals, and when you learn by heart all the checklists and procedures, I think, doing this in real life will be not much harder for you. Apart from that… There is nothing more. Only a mode when you can test your skills against some targets with no goal or whatever.2. Any really good made simulator or mod to the simulator.Project Tupolev mod for MSFS 2004/MSFS X. As I said before, you either learn operation manual of RL Tu-154M or you go home. Simple as that. All these switches do exactly what they are supposed to do.DCS A-10C?Falcon BMS for Falcon 4.0?Well, anyone of them has a WHOOPING learning cliff that makes anyone unfamiliar with these beauties wonder how the hell you “know what all these buttons are for”.

Affirmative !Destroying sensitive data or equipment has been a concern at least since WW2. Bomber crew were then equipped with incendiary devices to blow up maps, charts, books or radio equipment. For some most sensitive devices, the self-destroy feature was built-in :This box comes in B-17 Flying Fortress or B-24 Liberator Identification Friend or Foe system.Nowadays, most modern fighter aircraft include zeroize switches which can be manually operated by the pilot or automatically triggered in the case of an ejection.For instance, the F-16, world’s most used fighter jet, has a few of these switches, to erase all data from individual systems (Electronical warfare data, other sensitive data, or even whole software and firmware !), and a « Master zeroize » switch that will erase absolutely everything :Typically, an F-16 pilot having to divert to a civilian airport, and stay there overnight without the appropriate level of protection, will definitely erase all data according to standard operating procedure, and will even erase embedded software if in a foreign country.These switches will also be used by the pilot when performing a prepared ejection as part of the checklist, even if the seat actuation sequence triggers these switches in case of an unprepared ejection.Some systems will use micro-explosive chips that are directly on electronic components and part of the printed circuited boards, of electrical kill switches that will discharge lots of current or EMI to destroy other components.Anyway, in case of a crash on enemy territory, the wreck will soon be visited by ground crew to plant charges, or by other fighter aircraft to drop some ammunition on what’s left, as it became frequent on UAV crashes in the last few years.You can sleep on both ears, Uncle sam’s secrets are safe !