I flew my TeleGPS equipped rocket yesterday. It was a nice flight to
10K feet and as usual AltosDroid walked me right to the rocket. No
wandering around looking for it. I had an anomaly that I didn't
understand. During the flight I received updates on the rockets
direction and distance but never heard it announce the altitude or
elevation angle. It has reported these in the past. I had GPS
enabled on my phone. The AltosDroid version is 1.6.4. Any ideas what
my have happened?
Also, it would be nice if AltosDroid reported the distance to the ground
point the rocket is above instead of the slant distance to the rocket.
It's a minor point but the distance to the sub satellite point makes
more sense to me. Otherwise as the rocket descends it sounds like the
rocket is drifting back towards you when in fact it is only getting
closer to you due to the descent. Last fall a friend launched a
rocket to 20K that had both Kate and TeleGPS on board and we were
comparing the talk back of the two systems. The results were very
close except for the distance since Kate reports the distance to the
ground point.
Terry
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