The reason you (or someone else) gave ME when I brought up jr. HPR cert.
Insurance. Heres what I took in from a year or so ago... It may be flawed (I havent read it for a while), but you get the idea.
if you have kids certifying to fly, and flying, rockets on thier own, NAR insurance would go up like a 30 pound rocket on an O5100... There were some comparisons made to the driving age (and, for some reason I still dont get, the legal drinking age
). Every year you lower the driving age, the insurance companies gouge up prices. Not because of bigger risk, but because they know they can because teenagers want to drive (I can personally back that one up
). I dont know exactly how that applies to rocketry, but its an interesting comparison. If kids were allowed to certify, nomatter how smart or stupid we are, insurance would go up for ALL NAR (or TRA) members, not just the kids. So, since we are all ready short on funds, we both cant AFFORD to do it, and some people just dont want it anyway. And, without certification, NAR would become toatally irrelevant. If they didnt have controll over who gets motors and who doesent, there would be motors everywhere, and not always in the hands of... Well... "good people". Inexperienced people (relatively speaking)could get their hands on an O5100 and try to make it fly, and proabably kill something in the process. This hobby would go to the dogs.
Thats just my understanding of what was said a year or so ago.
Feel free to slam it, I dont care. I didnt come up with it
I just re-wrote it