Lol I got my L2 Don't gotta post about everything. Learned my lesson w/ chute release and moved on. Ur rly helping other ppl get into the hobby here. Real hero
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Thanks for the laugh. If that were the case, you wouldn't be asking such a basic common-sense question that anyone with an L2 would know the answer to. Nice approach. Real Einstein.
From these responses, I believe this is a typical college rocket program start up. We've had several like this. They have several students with L1 certs because the college bought a bunch of kits and motors so they could have certified fliers for their programs. They all went out and did a cert flight on the same day with the same kits and the same motors. For most or all of them, it was their first and only rocket flight. The L2 cert students flew a J, maybe on with the same rocket. They usually only flew 2 flights, unless they missed on one of the cert flights, then they might have 3 flights under there belts.
I've seen this same process play out with several college rocketry programs. They may have a L1 or L2 cert, but they really have no experience at all and the college is still pushing them to fly large L3 projects, make their own motors, etc. because at the college, students or faculty, don't know what they don't know.
This can be a huge learning experience for everyone involved on the college team, even if they are relearning well known subjects by trial and error. It can be a huge headache for the local clubs running the launches where the college groups are doing their test flights and/or test motor burns.
The one thing that mitigates the problems for both the colleges and clubs, is a good, experienced, L3 mentor for the team.
