Tactical Training

Log a training run while it happens — every phase mark with a timestamp, plus photos and voice notes on the same clock. Afterwards read off the split times, compare the run with the others and file everything as a report.

1 · First visit

The page needs no sign-in and no account. Open the address and you are done. On the first visit with a connection it stores itself on the device; after that it also runs without a network (chapter 11).

The same tool has three sections: Rope Rescue Exercise Log, Performance record and Tactical Training. The section is part of the address — einsatztraining.en.html always opens this one — and is remembered after that. Each section keeps its own runs; you switch in the “About” tab. Nothing is lost in the process: the backup in the archive always takes the whole store with it, whichever section it comes from.

2 · The built-in exercise types

Eleven templates in two groups, plus the Free exercise with no fixed marks at all.

Group “Tactical Training”

• Person and vehicle check — stop, approach, check position, search.
• Arrest of a person — taking over the situation to handover.
• Life-threatening incident, first responders — the first patrol car at the scene. The figure that matters is arrival to threat stopped.
• Officer safety at doors and entrances — short runs to repeat.
• Tactical casualty care — self-aid and buddy aid. The critical bleed is the mark everything is measured against.
• Operational shooting, range run — sequence and times. Hit patterns stay on the range's own sheet; the tool does not record them.

Group “Specialist units”

• Building entry — staging, reconnaissance, decision, entry, clear, handover, stand-down.
• Vehicle intervention — the tight figure is stop to occupants under control.
• Room entry and search — room by room, for repeats with the same team.
• Rope access, work at height — close to the rope rescue template “Rescue from height”: the same physics, a different task. The safety check is a mark of its own here too.
• Protracted operation, staging and relief — for operations lasting hours: relief cycles, reporting times, readiness states.

3 · Setting up a run

The preparation, in the Exercise tab. Everything in it can still be changed later; if you are in a hurry, press “Start exercise” straight away.

• Name — what is being trained, for example “Entry, training building North”.
• Exercise site — where, for example “Training building North, range 2”.
• Unit / team — no name belongs here. “Team 1” or “Group 2” is enough for any review.
• Exercise lead — again a role instead of a name: “Trainer 1”.
• Exercise type — the template. Marks can already be removed and added here.
• Exercise series (optional) — the same entry for every run, for example “Tactical training 2027 · autumn cycle”. The comparison only sets side by side runs with the same entry.

After the first run it goes faster: in a finished run, “Next run” carries on with the same exercise type and series and only asks for the team.

4 · Taking times while it runs

“Start exercise” sets the clock to zero. From then on it counts, and at the top you also see the split time since the last mark.

• Phase marks — large buttons, one for each mark in the template. One press writes the time. A pressed mark stays visible with its time.
• Own mark — for anything that is in no template.
• Voice note — in the rain, while watching the team, typing is the slowest way. Recording starts as soon as the view opens, and afterwards the note sits on the timeline with its time. There is no transcript; the PDF carries only the entry with its length.
• Photo — the camera in the page itself, with a large shutter and burst mode. If the browser does not release the camera, “from files” leads to the same result; the capture time is then read from the file and the photo is placed at the right point on the timeline.
• The shutter can be dragged and stays exactly where you let go of it. The device remembers this, not the run.

5 · Correcting and adding later

You always press too late. That is why every entry can be changed afterwards:

• Time from the start — the value is moved, and the timeline re-sorts itself.
• Name and comment — the comment can wait, for days if need be.
• Rating — an entry can be marked as a fault; the review counts them and the PDF lists them together.

Nothing is deleted silently: whatever was changed can be recognised as such on the timeline.

6 · Reviewing

The Review tab, as soon as the run has ended.

• Timeline — everything in the order it happened: marks, photos, voice notes, notes.
• Split times — from mark to mark.
• Figures — the spans stored in the template, summarised at the top. For building entry, for example, entry to building clear.
• Target times — whoever has set them in competition mode sees the deviation.

7 · Many teams, one building: the comparison

The Compare tab. It sets side by side every run in the same exercise series — one team per row, one mark per column. That is exactly what the “exercise series” field is for: without the same entry, the comparison cannot bring the runs together.

This is the view that makes all the effort worthwhile: twenty runs of the same scenario, and you can see at a glance where it took long for which team.

8 · Two trainers, one log

Before the run, device 1 hands out a tiny handover file (“For 2nd device”); both then record against the same start time. Afterwards the backup from device 2 is read in and merged into the existing run.

If the clocks differ, a slider shifts the imported log by seconds — the preview shows the two interleaved. Reading the same file twice duplicates nothing. Every entry then carries the device it came from: in the timeline and in the PDF.

9 · Adjusting marks and your own templates

Whoever always uses the same marks sets them up once instead of before every run. In the preparation, arrange the marks, enter target times and keep them with “Save as your own template”. After that they appear in the “Exercise type” field under “Your own templates”.

A template file can be passed on — before a training day this gives every trainer the same marks and target times, and the times become comparable. The file goes whichever way you send it; it is uploaded nowhere.

10 · Report and PDF

The report is produced on the device and needs no connection. The PDF is typeset by the server, so that the sheet looks the same everywhere — with header, footer, split times, table of figures, timeline including photos, and the list of observations.

Your own letterhead as a PDF can be stored; it is placed under every page. On the shared installation, the file stays in the browser and is only sent along for that one print job.

The confirmation sheet with signature lines for the training lead and the assessor depends on the licence; without it, a specimen print with a watermark is produced.

11 · Without a connection

Recording, correcting, reviewing, comparing and backing up run entirely on the device. Without a network, the PDF button says so; the PDF can be made at any time later, since the run is stored on the device. What to do without a network: store the backup in the archive — it contains everything.

Put it on the home screen

This gives the tool its own icon, and it starts without an address bar or tabs. More important than the looks is the storage: on the iPhone, Safari clears the storage of an ordinary page after seven days without a visit — runs and photos included. iOS treats an installed app differently and does not clear it.

You never need to reinstall anything because of this: every time it starts with a connection, the installed tool also fetches the latest version.

12 · Where the data lives — the most important chapter

In the browser, nowhere else. The runs are in localStorage, the photos in IndexedDB — both locally on the device. There is no upload, no access from outside and no sign-in.

The one exception, and it is your decision: pressing “Create PDF” sends the log of that one run, including its photos, to the server, which typesets the document from it and sends it back. Nothing is stored there. Whoever does not want that either does without the PDF; the recording itself never leaves the device.

13 · Running it inside the agency network

For units whose devices have no open internet — and for specialist units that is the rule — the intended way to run it is your own installation. FW Tools is a set of files: HTML with embedded CSS and JavaScript, plus a few PHP files for producing PDFs. No database, no framework, no sign-in, no outbound connection. A web server with PHP is enough.

The licence key is then stored once in the server's configuration and applies to every browser on that installation; nobody has to paste in a key. After that, not even the PDF leaves the network. For setting it up: contact.

14 · Names, photos and what is not collected

No field in this tool asks for a name. For the review, a role or a number is enough — Team 1, Group 2, Trainer 1. The comparison works with these labels just as it would with names, and what is never collected needs neither protecting nor deleting.

For photos of people the tool explicitly makes no provision. The rules of your own unit apply there. When in doubt, do not take a photo — press the voice note instead: it records the sequence without storing a face.

15 · Licence

Recording, correcting, reviewing, comparing and backing up work without a key — fully and permanently. The key unlocks what ends up in the file: the confirmation sheet in the PDF with the signature lines. Without a key, the PDF is produced as a specimen print with a watermark.

Agencies have their own price scale, because their procurement routes differ from those of a fire brigade. It is on the pricing page (German).

16 · Frequently asked questions

Have the exercise types been checked against a service regulation?

No, and it says so explicitly. They are suggestions, derived from publicly available descriptions of sequences. Go through them before the first training day, throw out what your unit does not measure, and add what is missing — that is what your own templates are for.

We are not allowed to send data to an outside server.

Then do without the PDF — everything else runs on the device — or run your own installation inside the agency network (chapter 13). For specialist units, that is the intended setup.

When exactly do I press “Start exercise”?

At the moment from which you want to measure — usually the word that releases the run. Everything after that is a mark, not the start.

The team was quicker than I could press.

Press anyway. The time can be corrected on the entry afterwards (chapter 5); a mark that was never pressed cannot be worked out later.

A run is missing from the comparison.

Almost always the “exercise series” field says something different — a space, a different year. The comparison groups by exactly this entry.

Yesterday's training day has gone.

Then the page was opened in a different browser from the one used for recording — or the browser cleared its storage (chapter 12). That is why: store the backup from the archive after every training day, and put the page on the home screen.

Where are my runs from the rope rescue section?

Where they were recorded. Each section keeps its own list; you switch in the “About” tab. The backup always takes every section with it.

Is there an app in the App Store?

No — and nothing is missing. Added to the home screen (chapter 11), the tool has an icon, starts without an address bar, runs without a network and uses the camera and microphone like an app from the store. Just without installation, without an account and without a version that has to match the device. For agencies this is also the simpler route: there is nothing to package and nothing to roll out through device management.