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Exercise Control

Injection of Malfunctions
A variety of malfunctions are available to the instructor. Examples include:

• Every valve in the system can be malfunctioned in at least ten different ways using a numbered code and a target time over which the malfunction should occur. This allows different effects to be created, such as valves creeping open slowly, icing up, or blocking. 
• Tank leaks
• Equipment and machinery malfunctions
• Gauge readings
• Oxygen levels and gas readings

These provide the instructor considerable flexibility in being able to respond to a developing situation created by an individual student. Malfunctions can be initialized at any point in the running of an exercise.

Malfunctions can be injected either directly via the graphics screen or, if multiple stations are being dealt with, via the 'Instructor Pages' on the control display.

Interaction with Student Model
The instructor is able to use the instructor graphics display in the same way as the student. This allows the instructor to interact with the student at certain times, for example, acting as an engineer to start main cargo pumps before passing them to the student's control.

'Instructor Only' Pages
These pages allow the instructor to observe, or modify, any variable in the student's database at any time. During exercises, this can be used to assign control variables such as berthing data, injecting malfunctions, and the monitoring of variables such as flow rates. These pages can be created at any time and altered to display the specific variables that the instructor wishes to monitor.

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