On 5/13/2018 8:56 AM, Allen Farrington wrote:
I agree with David that this discussion is exactly what this chat is for!
The idea of doing a sim and setting the logic triggers is what most staged
rocket flyers do. It’s what I do as well.
The “if required” clause in the guidelines are there to allow for some
discretion based on the range situation. For example, at a ROC launch,
especially a ROCStock Saturday, we have lots of spectators and new LPR flyers
so I would stray to the more safe configuration. If it were Friday morning when
it’s primarily experienced flyers in a small crowd, I’d let you fly the timers,
put it on the back row, and call it a heads-up flight.
Additionally, while your rockets are previously flown, you are trying a new ISC
and if it fails during boost, you could light a tumbling sustainer. That’s a
bad situation at a ROC launch, but would be OK from the away cell at black rock.
