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I knew there was a reason I didn’t go down there to fly… my rockets historically have a strange magnetism that attracts them to places where they cannot be recovered… trees, power lines, bodies of water… That’s why I love…   Read more»

con,I think you’ll be very happy with the arts, John Bixler sent me some data he obtained with his, and it did everything but wrote an article about the flight. Very impressive attempt at using some math wizardry to compute…   Read more»

They’re a nice unit and I like the add-on GPS module. My biggest issue with it is price, but then again, I’m a cheapskate.Warren

Well I went and Did it. I ordered the ARTS. I played with the software and read the manual and spoke to a few owners. looks pretty good.

With that kind of acceleration, I’m surprised the unit survived. The big electrolytic capacitor on Perfectflight and also on Missileworks altimeters (the only brands I own) are poorly supported against acceleration and I’ve had them rip off of the PC…   Read more»

So I am looking further into the ARTS Altimeter as a Back up and Data recorder for my RRC2X 40k for my L3 Flight. Curious how well if anyone knows that this ARTS does with dealing with High G forces…   Read more»

sounds like he was a lucky man. You gotta figure and hope really that the alt decisions are based on sound data, from the report u gave data was corrupted, survived to tell about it, Guess my point is you…   Read more»

Hey GuysI just found this interesting, at ROC Stock last weekend, one guy put a H999 in a minimum diameter unweighted rocket.Flew it with a Perfectflite for deployment, that was completely unmodified, and everything whet fine. Oh man did it…   Read more»

Warren,Way 8) ! Hopefully in time for a blast at LDRS! I’m still waiting for the darn mini phono jack connector to take the audio out to the PC soundcard, so LDRS will be the first time for the Bee…   Read more»

I’m within a couple shop hours of having my GPS downlink system functional. The GPS works AND the serial RF data link works… just have to get the RS232 integration down…Then its just a packaging issue.Warren

Warren,Interesting commentary, but irrespective of the resolution, I have recently learned that baro based units are inherently inaccurate for a number of reasons, not the least of which are local and temporary departures from the 1976 model. My understanding is…   Read more»

Warren I know for myself that going on about it would not bore me. Totally understood what you are talking about as I have had some experince with the stuff. I also agree that you and I have same modes…   Read more»

Since I own six Missileworks RRC2X’s, I can’t say anything but good things about Jim’s products. He does tell me that the MPAC has gone to the back burner and may not get moved back to the front of the…   Read more»

I would definitly like to get into so setup that does Data acqusition like thrust, G’s and all the good stuff as well as be an deployment device for dual deploy and do some video camera stuff. Be able to…   Read more»

CJ,Well you’d be among some kindred spirits if you get out this way, and we got thin air as well. 8)Chris LaPanse turned me on to pico-alt–at first i was a little leery but when I discovered Bob DeHate designed…   Read more»

I’m an altidude junky, so lots of “Great whites” (aka J570) in little tinny rockets.Hey thanks, I didn’t know about the pico-alt, I think I might just need to get me one of thouse.

Amen. That cap seems to be the achilles heel of the MAWD. But repeated 50G flights? What are you guys smoking these days in LA? Warp 9, WW?Perfect Flite: Great customer service as well. But having just received a small…   Read more»

Hey GuysJust my thoughts, I have a Perfectflite MAWD. Flown it over and over and over, it’s begaing to look pretty beat up. Never failed once (knock on wood). The funny thing is most of these flights have been in…   Read more»

To kind of bring back an older thread to life. I have used the Missile works products both The RRC2 and the RRc2x in both altitude formats and have flown them from as low as 2k in alt and all…   Read more»

Hahaha.Yeah – I think the control has its uses, and I might even get one sometime (though not now – I’m pretty happy with my RRC2). However, if I get one, it would go in a rocket with some redundancy…   Read more»