The manual for my MAWD doesn't specify the latch time, so I should just try it like you said. It certainly works out to cheaper than ematches (and LEUP free).

Ken

Well, the charges worked again. In fact, pretty much everything went smoothly for me yesterday. My level 1 flight went out of sight, which I wasn't expecting. But I never lost radio signal, and from the top of the little hill by the launch site I could see the parachute about 1/4 mile away.

I reloaded with a nice level 2 cert deal from Tim, passed the test, got to the pad and found that I wasn't getting a good signal from the Beeline. I think the antenna got folded over or something, because when I took the rocket back to the prep area, unpacked and repacked it, it was fine. The second flight, on a J285 (barely a J) went great. I love to see a rocket just wink out of sight like it went through a wormhole or something. I had a good signal all the way down, and the Beeline took me right to it, about 3/4 mile away. It's nice having a rocket with a big enough parachute that it's visible from a good distance, unlike the little record attempt rockets which I can't see until I step on them. Here is some data from the second flight:

So the Parrot works fine for the second deployment in a dual-deployment bird. Good thing, since I already sold a couple of them in that configuration recently. 😉

8) Adrian, 8,000 ft at Mach 1? Nice flight. 8)

What the motor man said, Adrain! Congratulations! I'll be buying one of those dual deploy altimeters from you at MHM. Hey, you borrowed my pen at the annual meeting, can I have it back? Hee, hee... alpha test comes before beta testing, which comes before production... 😉

Thanks, John. I'd forgotten how fun it is to launch a rocket and get the whole thing back. 😉 Wish you could have been there. It has been classic Colorado springtime weather with record-setting mid 70's yesterday, and blizzard conditions today, never getting out of the mid-20s.

I'll be buying one of those dual deploy altimeters from you at MHM.

Cool, I'll try hard to make sure I have some in stock in time for that. I may be sponsoring the prize for the MHM's mile-high contest, also assuming I can get some more altimeters ready in time. And just in case I haven't been clear, the Parrot still just does one charge, at apogee or at low altitude. For my flights yesterday I did a drogueless motor deployment at apogee, and the Parrot was set for a low-altitude deployment.

Hey, you borrowed my pen at the annual meeting, can I have it back?

Uh oh. What did it look like?

Hee, hee... alpha test comes before beta testing, which comes before production... Wink

Oh, so that's how it's supposed to work. 😆 Don't worry, I made sure the guys who bought the Parrots for low-altitude deployment knew the first alpha testing was barely done.

Ha! I forget what the pen looked like... doesn't matter. 😉