slohand
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I live in Kingston and will soon be losing my personal launch site once the farming operations begin again. I've joined CAR (#S 1435) and have been monitoring the Ottawa Rocketry Group on Facebook anxiously awaiting them to post a schedule. This would be my closest location that I know of. Everything on the table .... I don't "Facebook". Anyone here with that club?
From my readings here in the Canadian forum, out west seems very active, and yet not so much in the east. In the east here seems that the launch site of choice is Champlain Region Model Rocket Club in St Albans VT. Getting your motors for launches at this location must be a pain for Canadians? Do you guys that go there have a drop box on the other side of the border? Not to mention that it's a 4 hour drive each way for me I do own a 1988 VW Westfalia .... is there good camping around that location?
Are there other sanctioned groups that I just haven't stumbled upon in my searches? Did find some but they seem defunct and have had no activity in a long time and contact emails go unanswered.
Flying on my own is fun but I really would like to get involved in a club and as mentioned .... need a spring/summer/fall launch location. Way better way to exchange ideas and get pointers from the veterans and see what others are doing in the hobby. Furthermore, I'll never be able to get my L1 (and up) if I'm not in a club (or is there a way?). I'm at the limit of the motor sizes I can buy for the rockets I've built and its time to move up!
I just can't believe that our choices in south eastern Ontario and south western Quebec are that slim. Tell me I'm wrong.
Thanks
From my readings here in the Canadian forum, out west seems very active, and yet not so much in the east. In the east here seems that the launch site of choice is Champlain Region Model Rocket Club in St Albans VT. Getting your motors for launches at this location must be a pain for Canadians? Do you guys that go there have a drop box on the other side of the border? Not to mention that it's a 4 hour drive each way for me I do own a 1988 VW Westfalia .... is there good camping around that location?
Are there other sanctioned groups that I just haven't stumbled upon in my searches? Did find some but they seem defunct and have had no activity in a long time and contact emails go unanswered.
Flying on my own is fun but I really would like to get involved in a club and as mentioned .... need a spring/summer/fall launch location. Way better way to exchange ideas and get pointers from the veterans and see what others are doing in the hobby. Furthermore, I'll never be able to get my L1 (and up) if I'm not in a club (or is there a way?). I'm at the limit of the motor sizes I can buy for the rockets I've built and its time to move up!
I just can't believe that our choices in south eastern Ontario and south western Quebec are that slim. Tell me I'm wrong.
Thanks