Real-Time Oversight

Live Instructor Monitoring

Watch your operators in real time while they run evolutions. See gauge readings, control positions, and safety events as they happen — from your office or the training room, on any computer or tablet.

Latency

Real-time (WebSocket)

Sessions

Every active one listed

Hardware

None required

Access

Instructor + Dept Admin

Real-Time Gauge Mirror

See the trainee's pump panel gauges updating live on your screen. Discharge pressure, intake, RPM, and flow rate are mirrored in real time so you see exactly what the operator sees.

Live, as it happens

Every Active Session in One List

Every trainee running an evolution appears in your session list, with elapsed time, engine RPM, discharge pressure and a flag when a failure is active. Click a card to watch that run live.

Session list • Click to watch

Safety Event Alerts

Get instant visual alerts when a trainee triggers a safety event — cavitation, over-pressure, overheating, or tank depletion. The alert appears on the monitoring dashboard without needing to watch every gauge.

Instant alerts • Severity indicators

No Additional Hardware

The monitoring view runs in any web browser. No cameras, no special software, no network configuration. If you can access PumpForge, you can monitor live sessions.

Browser-based • Any computer or tablet

Instructor Notes

Write notes as you watch. Each one is stamped with the moment in the run you started typing it and saved to that run's After Action Report for the debrief. Notes written here are visible only to instructors and admins.

Timestamped • Attached to AAR

Session History

One click from the live view opens the trainee's earlier graded runs in a new tab, so you keep watching. Each shows its score, result and review status, with its After Action Report and the notes on it.

Past runs • One click from the live view

Curveballs

Make something go wrong while a trainee runs an evolution: the hydrant pressure drops or the supply is lost, a length bursts near the pump, the nozzle shuts down, a line kinks, or the tank turns out lower than expected. The trainee sees it only on their gauges, the way it would show on a real pump panel, and has to work the problem. Each curveball is marked on the run's After Action Report for the debrief. A curveball run is scored as normal but does not count toward a certificate.

Complete plan • Instructors and department admins

In Practice

What the instructor actually sees

When a trainee starts an evolution, their session appears in your Live Monitor list. Open it and you're looking at their run as it happens: the discharge and intake pressures they're producing, engine RPM, tank level, which valves they've opened and how far, and the event stream — pump engaged, line charged, pressure spike, cavitation warning — in the order it happens. You're watching decisions, not just gauges.

Coaching in the moment vs. reviewing after

Live monitoring earns its keep in two situations. First, early reps: a new operator's first hydrant evolution is worth watching live, because the mistake you see forming (charging the line before establishing supply, chasing pressure with throttle instead of setting the governor) is a 30-second conversation now versus a failed attempt and a rebuild of confidence later. Second, evaluations: watching a checkride live while the platform scores it gives you both the objective record and your own professional judgment for the evaluation form.

Testing how they respond

Setting up a clean evolution is half the job. The other half is noticing when something changes and acting on it. A curveball gives you that test when you want it: drop the hydrant pressure and see whether they catch the falling intake before the pump starts to cavitate, or shut down a nozzle and see whether they bring the rising pressure on the other lines back under control. The After Action Report shows the moment you sent it beside everything they did next.

For everything else, use the AAR

You can't watch every rep, and you don't need to. Routine practice runs are better reviewed through the After Action Report, which preserves the same gauge timeline and event stream for every attempt automatically. A practical rhythm: watch each trainee live once early on, then manage by AAR and let the completion notifications tell you where to look.

Common Questions

Live monitoring questions, answered

How real-time is the monitoring?

Gauge readings, control positions, and safety events mirror live, so you see exactly what the operator sees as it happens.

Can I watch multiple trainees at once?

You see them all in the session list, each with elapsed time, engine RPM, discharge pressure and a flag when a failure is active. Click any card to watch that run live, one at a time.

Do I need special hardware?

No. Monitoring runs in any web browser with no cameras, software, or network configuration. If you can access PumpForge, you can monitor live sessions from your office or the training room, on any computer or tablet.

Can I give a trainee a problem to handle during a run?

Yes. While you watch a run in your department, the Live Monitor lets instructors and department admins send a curveball: a hydrant pressure drop or lost supply, a burst length, a nozzle shutdown, a kinked line, or a tank lower than expected. The trainee sees it only on their gauges. The run is scored as normal and the curveball is marked on its After Action Report, but a curveball run does not count toward a certificate. Curveballs are part of the Complete plan.

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