Windows™ aerobatic competition software
ACRO: The Aerobatic Contest Results Organiser
  The ACRO System 
Try the ACRO Help system to see WHAT the software does and WHY it does it so well.

  ACRO Development 
Is your copy up to date? Check-out the ACRO Development Log to see if you need to upload again.
 
   
  Click the Download button
to install the software ....
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  Version 233-08 - current as at 11:12 on 23 August 2008  
  ACRO is a complete FAI / CIVA approved solution for scoring and results generation at national and international power and glider aerobatic events. ACRO is fully XP & Vista compatible .NET software.  
   
 
The software is supremely easy to use, is fully compliant with current CIVA FairPlay statistical scoring system methodology, and automatically adapts to decimal or comma arithmetic. Every user form has an Info panel explaining how to use each feature, to complement the separate fully descriptive Help system. In addition to comprehensive reporting of all entered data and great flexibility in the construction of calculated results onto paper and to the internet, it provides a thorough set of Judging analysis and a data-logging system giving full access to all of the interim stages of FairPlay statistical assessments.
To get the ACRO software running in your PC . . . .
Click the green 'Download' button to start the ACRO Installer
Select Run to install immediately, or save the file and run it on your computer.

You do not have to remove the previous version of the software from your computer, the installer will update your system as required and all existing ACRO contest, work-files, pilot-photos and settings will remain intact.
You will now find there are two new shortcuts on your Desktop:
  -  The first is to run the ACRO scoring programme, and
  -  The second is to fire-up the Help system on it's own.
You can also start ACRO with a contest file already open by double-clicking the contest filename in Explorer ('some-filename.ctf'), or you can right-click the file and use the "Open" command from the pop-up menu.
Contest files have a .ctf suffix and are always recognisable in Explorer by their ACRO logo ....

 ACRO Printed Output Format Explanations
 These pdf's can also be reached from the Help menu in the ACRO software.
 Check the CIVA international results web for examples of ACRO's typical web output
 In 2008 ACRO was used at the EAC, EAGAC, AWAC and WYAK championships.
 The British Aerobatic Association uses ACRO at all UK events
 Check-out the BAeA's results pages - all the contest results tables are built directly from ACRO.
 Archive store of ACRO .ctf data files from past UK and other national / international contests
 Here's an archive of ACRO contest files - please send us the files from your contests to add to this store!
Keeping your ACRO software up-to-date:
Check the build-number in the title against your current version, or look in the ACRO Development Log - this is on the Help menu in ACRO and here in the top-right panel. If there is an updated build of the software, you can download and install the new version as detailed above. Your do NOT have to uninstall ACRO before you do this, just close it down if it is already running. Your existing ACRO contest, log, work-files, photographs and support files will all remain safe and untouched.
Important
ACRO is a .NET Framework application written using Windows Visual Studio 2005 VB
. During the installation process the Installation Wizard will check that your Microsoft Windows™ .NET Framework is fully current, and if necessary will automatically carry out all necessary upgrades by accessing the internet and fetching/installing the required material. This could mean a several-MB download from Microsoft, depending on the current status of the .NET Framework that is installed in your pc.
 
If you do have problems operating the software which you think may be due to the currency of your computer's operating system VB.NET support software, you can download and install the most recent version of the "Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable Package (x86)" separately - this is freely available from the link below (correct as at October 2007):

 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en
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