Bdale Garbee <[email protected]> writes: > That's not a bad idea, but there are a pile of subtleties we stumbled > over when we last thought about it. I'll talk to Keith about it and see > if we can find a way out of the swamp here.
Yeah, we really want to avoid firing pyro charges near the ground as that can start fires or cause other injury. So we've looked into what it would take to figure out that we've booted up after a power failure in-flight and try and get back to flying the rocket and have mostly decided that it's pretty hard to manage. Switching to a different mode that doesn't enable any pyro charges but does enable logging and telemetry is something we hadn't thought about and might be a reasonable compromise? Essentially discover that you're falling and switch into telemetry/logging mode? Could be automatically transitioned from idle mode to this new mode when the height changes (in either direction) by more than a given amount. It would be nice to also be able to switch to this mode if power were interrupted after a hard landing, say after sitting on the ground in idle mode for more than an hour or so? -- -keith
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