I've got another way to look at this. First, let's remember every inch of ground that we fly off of and recover from is owned by five or six different farmers not the government. We have absolutely no right to be there except these fine gentlemen ALLOW us to fly there. If one of them ever decides we are too much of a PITA to have around, it's very easy for him to get his neighbors to agree to throw us out and we have absolutely zero recourse.
Let's assume for a moment that one of these landowners didn't want us flying yellow rockets. The club would, of course, immediately ban yellow rockets from our launch site. Here at TRF, folks who have never flown at our site and may never do so in the future would state how "silly" the rule is as they were throwing out ideas as to why the rule was in place. Of course, virtually all of them have no real idea nor are they on the right track.
Back to the present, to fly exposed metal at the Rocket Pasture, it must be painted. If you try to do otherwise it won't get by RSO or our pad managers.
BTW, I had a guy "tell" me that he painted the tip with clear paint and that met the rule and there was nothing I could do about it. Big mistake!
Bob Brown
Prefect, Kloudbusters Inc.
- smiley face for the first part.
