Had a great launch with the Radical Rocketeers!
Our TARC team had two flights. The first one saw our parachute come detached and destroy one egg, and our second flight was great, 868 ft, 53 s. Getting closer! Then I had two of my own flights. My dual deploy Darkstar Lite on an I200 to 22xx ft was first. The battery voltage was fairly low and I took a little gamble, and then right as I came up to the rocket, it beeped 2, 2, and then died! talk about cutting it close! My other flight was my dual deploy Formula 38 on an H250G. It was sim'd to 4500 ft, right near our 5k waiver. The sky cleared a bit, so I decided with a tracker on board to go for it. It took off like a bat out of hell, and we all lost it on the way up. I could hear the tracker on the radio the whole flight, and trekked out after it. The signal stayed really, really strong for a while, even when attenuated, while I was in a field, clearly not near the rocket. So then I looked up and saw it sitting in the tree line
So, FG pole in hand, our TARC team, father and I went after it, trying to pull it down. after maybe a half hour of yanking and swinging, we got it back. The altimeter was beeping out 5033'! It overshot the sims by over 500 ft! Welp, I suppose 5k' is just about right for this field! I'll be more careful next time before shooting that close to the waiver.
When it came down, it landed in a rocky creek, luckily all th fiberglass was okay, and the altimeter and tracker are sitting in rice now. fingers crossed they come back!
Nate