Recording training tosses and loft training

Every toss and loft fly goes on the Training page, and on each bird's Training tab. With release and arrival times, PLMS works out each bird's velocity.

Save your toss points first

Toss points are the places you toss from, with their distance from your loft. Save them once and the distance fills in for you on every toss.

1. Go to Training, open More and choose Toss points & loft position.
2. Optional: under Your loft, paste your loft's position from Google Maps (right-click or long-press the loft and copy the numbers), or press Use my current location while you're at the loft. Then press Save. With the loft's position saved, distances are worked out for you.
3. Press + Add a toss point, enter the name and distance (or its position), then Add toss point.

Record a toss

1. Go to Training and press Add a toss.
2. Check the date, then choose Loft toss (just my birds) or Club toss (several lofts). A club toss has extra fields for the club, driver and how many lofts and birds were in it.
3. Pick where they were Tossed from. The distance fills in from the toss point. Choose Somewhere else to type a new place.
4. Enter the Release time if you want velocities, and the weather if you like.
5. Under Which birds went?, use a quick pick (Racers & young birds, Racers, Young birds or Same birds as last time), or tick birds one by one. The filters help you find birds by status, sex, year or loft.
6. Press Save training. Every bird starts as home.

Mark arrivals

Open the toss from the Training list. Under Birds & arrivals, enter each bird's arrival time and set its result to Home, Late (next day) or Missing. Velocities appear as soon as there's a release time and an arrival time. Press Save arrivals when you're done.

The Training list shows how many were home, late and missing for every toss. Use Filters and choose Only where birds are missing to check on stragglers.

Loft training

For flying round the loft, press Loft training on the Training page. Enter the time they went out and how long they flew, pick the birds, and press Save training.