Instead of buying new kits to fly as had been my practice around the holiday sales, this year I decided to refurbish and find new ways to enjoy the models that had been gathering dust in my garage. Enter this Big Nuke which was one of my first ever large kits and has 25+ motor eject flights over nearly 15 years. I scraped the tattered inkjet printer graphics off and painted/stickered to be recognizably LOC Big Nuke. Adding voice telemetry was the initial goal, but once I had made arrangements in the NC for electronics a bunch of new ideas and questions came up:
Use Eggtimer fail safe mode at apogee to backup motor eject. This seemed relatively easy way to add some safety/reduce risk of ballistic, but added the hassle of
making the bp charge safe on landing on a normal flight. New thought was to solve this problem by making electronic deployment at apogee the primary and motor eject as backup. The details of this strategy would require me to add a bunch of prep and additional parachutes that I am trying to avoid to keep this my easy flyer. I'm looking for setup ideas that make use of having deployment electronics on board but keeps additonal prep and pad steps to a minimum. Big Nuke separates mid airframe for motor eject and electronics will be in the NC. Appreciate any advice from those with experience on apogee fail safe setting considerations.
Use Eggtimer fail safe mode at apogee to backup motor eject. This seemed relatively easy way to add some safety/reduce risk of ballistic, but added the hassle of
making the bp charge safe on landing on a normal flight. New thought was to solve this problem by making electronic deployment at apogee the primary and motor eject as backup. The details of this strategy would require me to add a bunch of prep and additional parachutes that I am trying to avoid to keep this my easy flyer. I'm looking for setup ideas that make use of having deployment electronics on board but keeps additonal prep and pad steps to a minimum. Big Nuke separates mid airframe for motor eject and electronics will be in the NC. Appreciate any advice from those with experience on apogee fail safe setting considerations.