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b) Prometheus checks desired output type—by period or by aircraft type.
If by period, Prometheus permits only one aircraft type. Prometheus
therefore calculates a ten-month projection. Note: these values equate
to POB1 through POB9 where the tenth value is the actual COB of
today’s date. If by aircraft type, Prometheus dimensions each system
type to its corresponding aircraft type.
c) Prometheus evaluates the stored values in the 3-dimension array and
calculates the M-Rating.
Prometheus then inserts these M-Rating
calculations into a datagrid object on the M-Rating View tab.
The user initiates the M-Rating and T-Rating calculations when the form is
loaded.
Note: During testing of the function, only a small fraction of the sailors were
assigned BSCs.
5.
T-RATING COMPUTATION
The T-Rating computation was not a requirement of the Prometheus application,
though we have incorporated it as a potential future program option. The T-Rating
computation is average score given to each system of a particular aircraft over a ninemonth projection. Each record or sailor’s score relates to these current standards: T-1
equates to NEC awarded plus two years of experience; T-2 equates to NEC awarded plus
six months of experience; T-3 equates to NEC awarded; T-4 equates to no NEC or
incorrect NEC awarded.
E.
SUMMARY
Prometheus is a distributed, front-end database client application that utilizes the
Microsoft© .NET Framework and Visual Basic .NET to meet its development needs. At
the heart of the Prometheus application is ActiveX Data Objects for the .NET Framework
(ADO.NET). ADO.NET is a set of classes that expose data access services to the .NET
programmer. Utilization of sound, object oriented ADO.NET, and .NET practices will
afford the Prometheus application easy portability to a middle-tier business object that
can be readily integrated into a professional n-tiered business model.
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