Is there anyone that would be willing to sit and spend a little bit of
time teaching myself and other adult members of my family exactly what
we need to know in order to be a LPR RSO, or PM, or PA, or LCO? There
is so much that we would like to do, but with our very limited
knowledge and experience in this hobby, we are hesitant to volunteer
for such positions.
To be completely honest, we were glad to be able to help this past
weekend in the capacity that we did, BUT, I felt bad that I could not
jump in and help when needed in the positions mentioned above. And
with the weather delaying most launches until Sunday, the lines (from
my seated perspective) were downright intimidating. Things were
already backed up and it would have been of no help to have us there
asking questions every two minutes.
*From:* Tom Hanan <mailto:tom.hanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 14, 2012 9:22 PM
*To:* roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [roc-chat] Re: [Bulk] Re: Youth Groups at ROCstocks
Good points David,
Getting volunteers for low power "Rocket Checker" , "Pad Manager" and
"Pad Assistant" should be much easier under those definitions.
A core skill training for the crucial position of low power "Rocket
Checker" would be to send anything questionable to the high power RSO
to get it signed off.
What special training would be required of a low power LCO?
On 11/14/2012 9:07 PM, David Erbas-White wrote:
On 11/14/2012 9:01 PM, Richard Dierking wrote:
Frankly, in my experience at ROC, the person most in charge of the
launch at a given moment in time is the LCO. Technically, I don't
recall that we've EVER had the person we call the RSO do anything
other than be the 'rocket checker'.
Of course, there's always yourself or Rick Dickinson or some other
Board member who is really 'running' the launch for the day, and has
authority of actual operations, but do we actually follow the
official "RSO" protocol? I don't think so.
For the youth groups, if we simply told the adults that for Low Power
rockets the RSO is simply the "Rocket Checker", we probably wouldn't
have a problem...
David Erbas-White
