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🙂 Mike, CTI has had real good results from this motor. I have them on order, and I am trying to snake a few of the bigger K’s (6XL case) duel thrust motors for demo’s. (Not certed yet) They have…   Read more»

I’m still wondering what’s wrong with the rules or how we aren’t following them:Rules for this contest are the ultimate in simplicity. The contest runs from 1/1 through 12/31 every year. The club member who burns the most weight in…   Read more»

I believe it was started more as a means to roughly track what was being consumed on NCR’s launch sites and not really as a contestIt may have not have started as a contest, but it is a contest with…   Read more»

Okay, since I didn’t have anything else to do (joke) I re-read these postings and will make the following observations. The AP Bonfire data has been collected and sort of corrected and very recently updated and apart from not including…   Read more»

Scott, take a Midol. Mike, thank you for your kind words but check your math. 2 K’s, depending on the K’s, added together might still equal a K. Typically, regardless of the number of motors, it’s still one flight….   Read more»

FYI- Scott, from what I’m gathering BP is not counted in this., and also what I was told by Joe, the count only includes those launches at an NCR site event, and does not include launches at other sites, like…   Read more»

But untill you can get the code rewritten, just enter 2 flight cards for the same shot with a note behind it. Multiple engines are not that common at regular launches. That is a simple solution. So for my two…   Read more»

Im not a programer.And I am not necessarily volentering Joe to do more work.But untill you can get the code rewritten, just enter 2 flight cards for the same shot with a note behind it. Multiple engines are not that…   Read more»

Doug, the issue is that the code does not exist to enter “one more piece of data” – the database schema doesn’t currently have the field for it nor does the code that dynamically generates the input screen Joe uses…   Read more»

Everyone needs to keep their panties from getting bunched up. All good points of discussion. From a hysterical perspective, I mean historical, when PHITS and TRM were flying, the bent of competition developed between who was flying the highest or…   Read more»

The AP bonfire has ALWAYS been an automatically computed result from the input of the flight cards. If it requires anything manual beyond entering the flight card data and occasionally updating the motor database, I’m afraid that contest is over….   Read more»

The AP bonfire has ALWAYS been an automatically computed result from the input of the flight cards. If it requires anything manual beyond entering the flight card data and occasionally updating the motor database, I’m afraid that contest is over.The…   Read more»

Doug-I’ve heard a few club members talk enthusiastically about your upscale contest idea. I myself am interested, and hope it comes to fruition. No reason to give up on the idea so soon.Chad Moore

Not sure why we need to worry about the code if people just put the total weight of the propellant(s) on the flight card with the flight.Hell, just send it in after the launch. It doesn’t even have to be…   Read more»

Not sure why we need to worry about the code if people just put the weight of their motor/motors on the flight card with the flight.Art

Simple answer is the code, when originally designed, only took into account single motor flights. The launch logs and flight cards that preceeded the code didn’t have provision for it and both the original Volunteer programmer and the Volunteer programmer…   Read more»

Well Joe, I have to say I am once again disappointed with the Contests of NCR. The contest states:The club member who burns the most weight in Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellent according to the club launch logs from club sanctioned…   Read more»

I don’t care how the bonfire is done (weight or impulse), impulse was a suggestion because it is an easy number to come by on any commercial motor.At this point I truly believe that those who want to participate in…   Read more»

Clusters and staged flights are credited to the largest motor used, not the total number of motors used or the total weight of propellant. Trying to enter more than one motor per flight creates other data entry headaches. Our databases…   Read more»

Clusters and staged flights are credited to the largest motor used, not the total number of motors used or the total weight of propellant. Trying to enter more than one motor per flight creates other data entry headaches. Our databases…   Read more»