Keith,
Thanks. As I mentioned the distance part is pretty minor. It does
give an idea how far the recovery walk will be as the rocket drifts
down. In my case on Saturday, it was a short walk of 1/2 mile out to
the rocket. The elevation anle is nice to have so you can guess-ti-mate
where to look for the rocket.
I wouldn't fly a high flight without it and it makes the recovery so
much more pleasant. Another rocketeer flew to 15K feet with no
tracking and his rocket is still out there waiting to be discovered.
Terry
On 4/16/2017 8:05 PM, Keith Packard wrote:
W7AMI <[email protected]> writes:
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?
I'm not sure what I'm reporting for TeleGPS these days; I haven't flown
with it in a while. It definitely reports different things than either
TeleMetrum or TeleMega as it doesn't try to track the state of the
rocket flight.
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.
Yeah, I've been kinda wondering. I initially thought that the distance
to the rocket would help you figure out how big it might look in the
sky, but distance over the ground might be more useful. Of course, that
value is present on the screen.
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