Well yeah but if you want to launch at a major affair, one is stuck with the pad number that sponsoring club uses. Might take awhile to get one's rocket off. In the meantime can see some interesting projects launch.Easy - I avoid launches with long pad wait times.....
Sure - if it sat on the pad for hours or took a long time to recover, then perhaps a new battery.
Only real load on your typical FC while it waits is all the beeping.
Plus, I've never lost a rocket that had a nominal flight at one of those launches. Somebody usually finds it.
Shoot, I've found other fliers rockets and if I didn't meet them walking towards me out in the field, I turned the rocket in to the LCO or RSO's table so the flier could get it back.
Ummmmm, the really BIG projects that came down close to me while out in the range, I'd fold up the man-sized parachute as best I could and put the massive nosecone on top of it so the rocket didn't get dragged across the field by the wind and set a surveyor's flag up that I always carried in my pack. The owners always appreciated that when I pointed them towards their project.
Kurt
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