Jeff, I really liked the set up at Plaster Blaster: No Flight Cards No PA system Perhaps 8 rods all small A simple controller, match number of rods to capability of controller No annoucements. The supervisor helps the kids work the controller, kid pushes the button for his/her own rocket and can count it down if they want. The whole group yelling it out is best. Supervisor RSO's the rockets. most of the rockets will be nicely stable kits and will just take a quick look that the fins are on straight. Many of the rocket will be "ready to fly" models and don't need to much checking. Loading and launching was fast and furious. I never saw anything unsafe and all up to the NAR code. The kids were launching, recovering and reloading in record times. Parents were spending the college funds to keep the little hellions in black powder. Ken On Jun 24, 2012, at 7:36 PM, Jeff Gortatowsky wrote: > snip > >L4A) add mini range > I am for this. Far enough away and it will be fine. I am not talking 'just > down the pike'. I am talking 10 minutes walking time away to the south and > east. And a misfire alley to boot... bring your own pads and controllers. > (People can share as well.) Each station has a numbered paddle. ROC provides > flight cards, paddles, a speaker system, RSO and LCO. When you are ready, you > hold up a numbered paddle and the LCO announces your flight. I believe thats > how a misfire alley works. My understanding is throughput is great. (PS: I am > pretty sure there are (or has been) entire NSLs run this way.) >