Can someone roughly tell me what altitude an 8" - 34lb rocket
would go?
Thats 38lbs loaded with the motors.
Using an L730 central motor and three J285 air starts.
My Missile Works RRC2x told Me 7392'.
All the predictors on the internet ( I use two) say it should have gone way less.
I had a second RRC2 mini but it did not get checked.
It did go high. But it also went into the clouds.
I just don't believe the RRC2x.
Thanks Mike
PS. It does seem to deply at the designated altitude properly.
Update. I was able to turn on My RRC2 mini. And recall
the log info. It chirped out 5835'. I think that is more inline
with what it should be.
I will go with 5835'....Not 7392'
I expected around 5000'
Now to find out what is wrong with My RRC2x
Perplexed.... 😯 .... How can it give the wrong altitude but
deploy correctly.... ????
That may also mean a flight of 7900' last year was more
like 6300'...
I may be doing something wrong also.
I am still happy with 5835' for My Accelerated Motion.
Sorry to ramble. 😳
I don't know - 7400 feet sounds almost believable, off the top of my head here. You did have an L730 and 3 small Js powering your rocket. That's 4700Ns total, near to a full L. My 4" AIM-120C (34lbs loaded) pulled off 11k on a 4800Ns L at Oktoberfest. The extra drag from an 8" airframe would drop the altitude by quite a bit of course, but 7400 still sounds in the range of possibility, especially with airstarts (which should be a more efficient way of gaining altitude than a single, hard hitting motor that is groundstarted).
Of course, I haven't rocksimmed any of this, so I'm in large part guessing here.
Oh Mannnnnnn.
OK, using a very quick and dirty rocksim, I just got an estimated altitude of 6800 feet. Rocksim usually estimates on the high side, but either of those two altitudes still seems plausible.
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