Here are some opportunities to practice with the IMS using recorded and simulated Ranger Radio Traffic.
Click here to get to the Ranger Training IMS - Incident Management System
Log in with your Ranger Handle or email address and the same password you use for the clubhouse. Select the current year's training event from the Events menu in the upper left after you log in.
6/12/25 -- If the above site is not working, please log into this alternate URL at https://ranger-ims-staging.burningman.org/ims/app/ and select the "2025-Operators-Test" event.
While practicing in this IMS, you may want to have the Visual User Guide open in another tab for your reference.
If you would like some Real Radio Traffic to practice logging with, this video features exactly that -- recorded during the 2014 event (please do not share the link or post elsewhere - duh!).
Zello Practice Sessions
Although these are primarily geared towards giving new Rangers some practice using the radio, the Zello virtual practice sessions are also another opportunity to practice Operating from the comfort of the default world.
Zello sessions for 2025 are being scheduled by the Training Academy, and are available for sign-up by any Ranger in the clubhouse, next to the sign-ups for Ranger Orientation training. You're welcome to sign up and join the training; once there, announce that you'll be working as an Operator, and log the "traffic" from the Zello sessions in the training IMS.
Click here for instructions on how these sessions work, and email Ranger Factotum (factotum@burningman.org) with any questions.