Proposed New Procedure for Field Manager Report

One of the last tasks for the Field Manager at the end of each day is making a brief report on the day's flying. Once upon a time, this report went in one place: the FM notebook in the clubhouse. Right now it is also supposed to be echoed to NCSoar. Of course, since the FM can't take the notebook with him, he has to make a private copy somewhere, which is the third time the report gets written down.

I say reporting in triplicate is too much, and we should amend our requirements to avoid it. Let's do away with the notebook, and let the message to NCSoar be the actual FM report. This will do away with the first copy, and also the second, assuming the FM composes the NCSoar report directly.

This new procedure does raise the possibility that the next day's field manager will arrive without having seen the NCSoar report -- for whatever reason -- and will have no simple way of determining whether anything noteworthy took place the day before. To that end I propose that the FM leave a note of any really urgent items on the small whiteboard inside the clubhouse entrance.

Let's have one report; not three.

-- Johan Larson