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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Talk to Bob about doing your L2 exam, as he's our prefect (though he'll often answer through this list, or through the officers(at)nrvr.org email)</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">That being said.. Saturday sounds like it's going to be a super busy cert day though. We have like 15-20 students attempting their L1, at least one L3, and maybe a couple others. </p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Are you going to be here Sunday too? If so.. I would ask him about doing it then (if possible).. (after all those students cycle through.. but you'll need to take that up with Bob.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Yes.. a couple folks in the club have mixed their own APC motors.. I did some BP mixing as a kid (it was just so easy to get in the 80s!).. but I recommend against that in our club. But I have been hearing a growing interest (4-5 members) in getting into mixing APC as a club. Some for the economy of it.. some for the chemistry and cool science factors. </p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">If you're interested in heading up the efforts in this area.. I would encourage you to take lead on it.. See who all's interested, and maybe have a special mixing meeting for those interested.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">See you at the launch Bloom!</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 10:23am, "David Bloom" <dwskb@att.net> said:<br /><br /></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">> Since the weather can be iffy, there was a clear widow for the ROCC launch this<br />> past weekend so I went and achieved my Level 1 certification on Saturday (NAR as<br />> no TRA prefect available) and stepped up the Loc IV on Sunday from Sat's H 87 to<br />> an H 250 which was recovered nicely using a Jolly Logic Chute release at 300<br />> feet. (KISS it Sat with 1000 ft flight and ejection deployment with a choked<br />> 3' chute). I purchased the H250 on site from Performance Hobbies; and I also<br />> emailed my paperword and Apogee shipped me a J motor yesterday for my Level 2.<br />> <br />> Your answers were right on target as this was I did.<br />> <br />> Two questions 1) when and where can I take the Level 2 written test 2) in an<br />> earlier email you mentioned that you may have an interest in mixing APC and I<br />> asked was this Ammonium Perchlorate?<br />> <br />> I plan to be at the launch this weekend and answer too follow re remote.<br />> <br />> <br />> --------------------------------------------<br />> On Mon, 4/23/18, Thomas Tweeks Weeks <tom@theweeks.org> wrote:<br />> <br />> Subject: Re: [NRVR-Members] Save $$ - Place any motor bulk orders BEFORE<br />> CoB Friday for April Launch<br />> To: "NRV Rocketry Members" <nrvr-members@server2.nrvr.org><br />> Date: Monday, April 23, 2018, 12:16 AM<br />> <br />> On Friday, April 20, 2018 1:58pm,<br />> "David Bloom" <dwskb@att.net><br />> said:<br />> > Hello Tweeks.<br />> > When you get Level 1 cert approximately<br />> how long before you can H<br />> > and I motors?<br />> Thanks<br />> <br />> Generally speaking,<br />> as soon as you're L1 certified.. you can order all the<br />> H&I motors you want.. But technically, cert flights are<br />> treated as special cases, and with most motor vendors.. you<br />> can actually order your first H (cert flight) motor and<br />> casing from them without a standing certification in place..<br />> though I DO recommend telling them what club you're a<br />> part of and who your L1 cert "mentor" is (they may<br />> ask you for that person's TRA/NAR member#, just as a<br />> safeguard). <br />> <br />> I've<br />> actually known folks to get both their L1 H and L2 J this<br />> way (even at the same time in the same order!). Some folks<br />> have actually done this before even having their TRA<br />> membership number assigned first.. but I recommend against<br />> this. IMHO.. we need some sort of safeguards in place to<br />> prevent Joe-Q-Public/uninsured individuals from ordering HP<br />> motors willy nilly. :) <br />> <br />> Any other comments/thoughts?<br />> Bob?<br />> <br />> BTW..<br />> Whenever possible.. take advantage of group-bulk orders to<br />> save between $20-40 on your motor orders.. and for cert<br />> flights.. CTI/Cesaroni (at least used to) give a free motor<br />> casing for your smaller cert flights! Just contact the motor<br />> vendor over the phone before placing your order. <br />> <br />> Oh.. and when we have on-site<br />> motor vendors.. that's the bets deal (zero shipping). We<br />> have this for our July launch.. Be sure to get those orders<br />> placed as far in advance as possible. Especially if your<br />> ordering multiple or larger motor sizes. Once the motor<br />> vendor gets here on site.. what he has is in stock is all he<br />> has for last minute purchases. He'll often have a ton of<br />> motors for all the flyers who pre-ordered.. but may actually<br />> have a low inventory of certain motor types for walk up<br />> customers. Not always, but better safe than sorry.<br />> <br />> <br />> Any other<br />> questions? Are you doing a cert flight with us this week?<br />> :)<br />> <br />> Tweeks<br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> _______________________________________________<br />> NRVR-Members mailing list<br />> NRVR-Members@mail.nrvr.org<br />> http://server2.nrvr.org/mailman/listinfo/nrvr-members<br />> <br />> _______________________________________________<br />> NRVR-Members mailing list<br />> NRVR-Members@mail.nrvr.org<br />> http://server2.nrvr.org/mailman/listinfo/nrvr-members</p>
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