MAM Construction Manuals

[S & L Aldrich]

Did everybody get a manual on CD? I got the 2500 manual along with the 3500
upgrades on CD a year or so ago from Colleen. It is all in Adobe PDF format
like the chapters on the tech support page.
In theory when MAM makes a change to a chapter they are now publishing the
whole chapter on the tech support page. Problem I am seeing is that MAM
only post changes when they are major not the smaller typo's or step errors.
I was thinking maybe they should only give out the manuals on CD and have
the entire content for each manual downloadable from the web. That way MAM
wouldn't have to print up a bunch of manuals that become out of date as soon
as they are printed. Print out your own chapters as needed. It would not
take much time at all to make the simple updates in Acrobat and publish
updates on some sort of time table. If MAM was concerned about someone
getting the entire manual free to "scratch build" a MAM aircraft they could
make it a logon type of page. Of course there are a few with no computers
so MAM would need to print some as needed.
As far as making the changes ourselves and publishing them for download,
the actual publishing part would be relatively easy. I played around with
making changes with Acrobat to one of the chapters last night. It took much
less time than typing this email.
HOWEVER, I believe it would be much better if we could somehow get MAM to
update via PDF files or maybe we help by sending a copy of a change or fix
in final PDF form for them to approve and publish via web. Having only
built the tail I don't have experience with the rest of the manual, but I
wouldn't classify what I have seen as "bad", just needing some debugging.

Just some thoughts FWIW.
Scott Aldrich
#174





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[Rickhm at home]

Scott
One observation I had (I just put the fuselage On wheels) is the early part
of the manual was pretty good. As I got further into it (wings and
fuselage) it got noticeably more obscure, errors, etc. I agree with those
who have suggested getting someone to review any proposed changes would be
fantastic!

Rick

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Did everybody get a manual on CD? I got the 2500 manual along with the
3500
upgrades on CD a year or so ago from Colleen. It is all in Adobe PDF
format
like the chapters on the tech support page.
In theory when MAM makes a change to a chapter they are now publishing
the
whole chapter on the tech support page. Problem I am seeing is that MAM
only post changes when they are major not the smaller typo's or step
errors.
I was thinking maybe they should only give out the manuals on CD and have
the entire content for each manual downloadable from the web. That way MAM
wouldn't have to print up a bunch of manuals that become out of date as
soon
as they are printed. Print out your own chapters as needed. It would not
take much time at all to make the simple updates in Acrobat and publish
updates on some sort of time table. If MAM was concerned about someone
getting the entire manual free to "scratch build" a MAM aircraft they could
make it a logon type of page. Of course there are a few with no computers
so MAM would need to print some as needed.
As far as making the changes ourselves and publishing them for download,
the actual publishing part would be relatively easy. I played around with
making changes with Acrobat to one of the chapters last night. It took much
less time than typing this email.
HOWEVER, I believe it would be much better if we could somehow get MAM to
update via PDF files or maybe we help by sending a copy of a change or fix
in final PDF form for them to approve and publish via web. Having only
built the tail I don't have experience with the rest of the manual, but I
wouldn't classify what I have seen as "bad", just needing some debugging.

Just some thoughts FWIW.
Scott Aldrich
#174



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