An Informal Practice lets an athlete shoot as much slow fire on any target as they want, up to 500 shots, within an Event Style. Athletes can control the target manually; however, there is no range script. In this mode, the athlete can fire at their own pace.
For Orion users: Since Informal Practice puts the athlete in charge of control of the Firing Point, the target/monitor does not interact much with Orion outside of basic controls and maintenance features.
Informal Practice cannot be adjusted by the athlete if the target is in an active relay. If you would like to have an extra target in practice mode, this has to be set when sending the relay to the range.
Loading an Informal Practice Mode
To load Course of Fire from the main screen select the Menu button.
Select the Advanced button.
In the top-left, select the Load New COF button to advance.
Select the Informal Practice button. Informal Practice will allow the athlete to set a position and shoot as much as they wish without range commands or timers.
On the Informal Practice load screen, first select your Discipline, either Rifle or Pistol.
Then select your sub-discipline under the Options menu. The available options are dependent on your choose of Discipline. In the screen shot below, the Rifle discipline has options for Air Rifle and Smallbore Rifle.
Next, select which Target Collection to shoot on. Again, the available options will depend on your choices for Discipline and Options.
Finally, tap the LOAD button, and confirm your selection.
Athena will then create the Course of Fire for you in the Scopos network, configure your Target and Monitor pair, and set the initial position based on the Course of Fire. This process can take a few seconds, so be patient.
Once the Course of Fire is loaded, the athlete will automatically be brought back to the main screen. The firing point is ready for you to start shooting.
To switch from sighters to record fire in the current position (in the image above the target is in the Standing position), tap the Enter STANDING button.
To switch to a different position, tap the Menu, Series Menu, then the position of your choose buttons.
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