Neah, you are just might be getting cranky with age....
:lol:
The first and only question my kids asked when I gave them complete freedom to order their own rockets was: "which one goes the highest?"
And you know what - I remember sorting my rocket preferences by exactly the same criteria 30+odd years ago.
I bet so did YOU, and most everyone else here, if you think back to your younger days!
Geee, lets go "low and slow" - that was NOT how any of us got excited about this hobby.
We all wanted to go high, and fast!
The only major difference now is that it's WAY easier and cheaper to go crazy high and stupid fast today, then it was decades ago.
Frankly, I'm super happy that my eight year old has soldered together her very own GPS transmitter/receiver, and built her first mid-power FG model. I exited the hobby as a teenager long before either GPS or FG components became affordable and readily available.
Kids are having so much more fun these days then we did.
Good for them!
Hurts nothing, other than the wallets.
:surprised:
Which is all music to the ears of the vendors, of which there are easily 10x of what I remember from the last time around (largely due to the online storefronts).
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P.S.: You want non-formulaic certs? Consider adding the following:
Level 4 cert: hit Karman line.
Level 5 cert: enter Earth's orbit, and return with full recovery.
Level 6 cert: enter Mars's orbit, and return with full recovery. Present model to cert team for inspection after flight.
I have no problem with those who want to fly high and fast. In fact, I appreciate the ones who take the time to study the state of the art and then try to advance it, and were fortunate that many post here. They are the ones who drive this hobby. Without them, we would stagnate.
I think its absolutely great also that you worked with your daughter while she assembled her own gps gear. Thank you for that, and I truly mean it. Parents like you drive our hobby forward too. Thats extremely admirable.
Steve Shannon