SoAR-Turkey and GRITS 2017-11-25

And Freddy..

timcub on 2017-10-23 12:15:27Z wrote:

Anyone going? Clayton & I will be there!

Anyone know what they waiver is at GRITS Tifton field?

20K MSL!

timcub on 2017-10-24 13:02:22Z wrote:

Anyone know what they waiver is at GRITS Tifton field?

Since I could not find it on their website, I emailed Jorge. He said 18k but recommends keeping below 12k. Why would he recommend keeping below 12k?

esotericdude on 2017-10-24 13:10:49Z wrote:

20K MSL!

timcub on 2017-10-24 13:02:22Z wrote:

Anyone know what they waiver is at GRITS Tifton field?

I thought I had remembered 20k MSL: https://www.soarrocketry.org/one-week-till-tifton-launch/ <- This is an old post but it mentions the waiver.

..."Waiver is to 19750 ft. above ground level"

The difference is how far above sea level the site is.18k gives them a buffer I'm sure, and I don't blame them.

The field is very small. I get nervous on anything over 10k. You have a good chance of being treed like what happened to Freddy last time, and me the time before. In Freddy's case, he had to wait days, and if it rained hard, who knows how his electronics would have held out. In my case, the rocket wasn't up too high and I was able to recover within an hour or so

If the waiver was only 15k, I'd choose LaBelle over it every time(for launching high). But their waiver is higher, and that makes it tempting, and the only place Freddy can launch his high mach, high altitude bird. I like the field, but I don't think it will see any launches of my Nutcracker on Ms.

I wish LaBelle's waiver were higher. Man, I'd be launching some stuff!

timcub on 2017-10-25 11:14:51Z wrote:

Since I could not find it on their website, I emailed Jorge. He said 18k but recommends keeping below 12k. Why would he recommend keeping below 12k?