Good to be flying - its been too long

Through the week, winds 5k and over were predicted at over 30 miles per hour, so I never expected to be able to launch on Saturday. On Friday, I checked the predicted winds and they had dropped down to a max of 26mph. After work, I quickly prepped the vehicle and rocket.

Since I have not launched in awhile, prep work at the pad was slow. I double checked everything, including using a volt meter to check voltage lines coming from the self launcher. Ground winds were kinda high at 13mph, but I had confidence in the upper winds.

On ignition, it appeared that the igniter blew itself out even though the end cap was cut with a large triangle for venting. A few seconds later, smoke and ignition from the motor!

It was a beautiful blue sky day out there with little white puffy clouds, making for a great view. Rocket and motor performed better than expected going over 400 feet higher than estimate.

GPS led me right to rocket which was around 100 feet off of a road. I could not see the rocket due to the tall grass until I was practically right on top of it. There was swamp near the road so I wore my rubber boots. Rocket was dry and recovery was easy.

All charges both primary and backup deployed nominally.

Primary Deployment:

Insane Rockets App Controlling Customized Arduino Nano 33 BLE

Drogue Charge with Two E-Matches Serial

Main Charge with Two E-Matches Serial

Backup Deployment:

Raven 4

Independent Battery

Drogue Charge with Two E-Matches Parallel

Main Charge with Two E-Matches Parallel

Onboard 4K Video & Data:Nexus 5x with Insane Rockets App

EZI-65 Wrapped twice in 2oz Fiberglass.

3 Shear Pins For Both Drogue and Main Release.

16th Launch with Dual Deployment controlled by phone.

8th Launch using customized Arduino BLE deployment module (controlled by phone)

12th Launch with Phone controlling rocket ignition via 900MHz band.