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>IET nº5 - Rules - 1st amendment - 19MAI2007

In here we will explain all teh procedure you must take while an engineer of CP Virtual

1-What to do when you finish an activity

You are now a virtual engineer. Congratulations!

Fun is about to begin. First thing you must do as a virtual engineer is to launch MSTS and run activities. Lots of activities in portuguese Routes ;)

However, every time you sucessfully finish an activity there are a couple of procedures you should take.

Let's assume we have completed an activity in the Algarve Route.

When an activity ends, you should get a screen like the following one::

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You should click the 'View Details' button to show additional details about the activity you just finished.

Nest you will get a screen like this one:

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you should tehn click the 'Save Evaluation' button.

This will create a file in your hard drive where the details of the completed activity will be stored. It is this file that you should send to us.

Now, for finding that file!

On the 'Train Simulator' folder, there is a subfolder named 'Saves'. Inside this one there are a number of other folders named after some routes you have installed and that you have previously saved activities or activity reports such as the one we are looking for. So, if in this example we are finding an activity on the Algarve Route you should check inside the 'Sul' folder. Let's see the next screen:

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Here, we have encircled in blue the 'Saves' folder, and indise it we have folders for several Routes instaled on MSTS. To find the file we want, we must see the content of the 'Sul' folder. Indise the folder you will find two types of files:

Files with extension *.sav - Activities can be saved in the middle of a run and completed later. They are saved in these files. Do not mess with them.

Files with extension *.rtf - These are the files we are searching for. These files can be openned with any recent version of MS Word. Now pay atention!!!! There can be rtf files finishing with *Eval.rft and files finishing with *EvalDet.rft. We want the second ones.

If you followed the first steps of this tutorial, them you will find a file with the name of the activity you finished and ending with *EvalDet.rft. This is the file you must send to CP Virtual. Based on the contents of this file we will fill in your worker's sheet and mantian a registry of your activities, your mileage and the time you spent driving as well as other details.

2-Sending Reports!

To send us the report of an activity you should proceed as follow:

Send a e-mail to with the rtf file attached. Place "Activity Report" in the subject, and, in the main text of the e-mail, state the actual date of when you preformed the activity and your number. Any email not containing these two pieces of information may be disregarded as we cannot process the information without them because of the utomatic filter set in our inbox!

Workers sheet will be updated every weekend (as best as we can!).

And that's all there is to it!

Now it is time for you to have fun and drive trains. Have a pleasent journey!