More about IRW 2007 HPR site.

I was running out of time when I sent my earlier post today about the
Fairlie Moor Site (Kilbirinie Library automatic timed logging-off on
their public internet/PC facilities), so I left out some further
details about the Fairlie Moor Site. Here they are now.

1) To find the FMS on the map that Init 6 posted a link to on Aug 6
at 10.59pm, put it up on the screen as a hybrid. First find "Seamill"
on the coatline. Then take a line approximately diagonally across the
frame from lower-left to upper-right, "fitting" the line (in the
graphical sense) between "Seamill" and "West Kilbride", going past
"Crosbie" (slightly off the line & left-above it), and continue until
you come to the approximately square body of water that extending this
line will bring you to; this is the Knockendon Reservoir (you should
see a longer, narrower reservoir to the lower right). The FMS/
Knockendon Farm launch and immediate recovery area lies back (SW)
along the line between Knockendon Reservoir and the hills that you
will see on the satellite image. The single track/passing places
tarmacced public road that passes thought the FMS/Knockendon Farm area
runs through the middle of it, half way between the Reservoir and the
hills, running parallel with both. This road connects with the A78
coast road that goes past the entrance and exit to Kelburn Castle &
Country Centre.

Note: If anyone would like a copy of the OS Pathfinder Map of the FMS
area, please e-mail me (I think most of you know my e-mail address; if
not phone me on 07733 250135) and I will send it to you as an attached
file.

2) As regards Dual/CP Recovery of High Power vehicles flown at the
FMS, this should be used on any rocket going above 4,000 Feet (1,220
Metres) AGL altitude.

3) There will be briefing for each day's HPR operations (Thursday
23rd to Sunday 26th August) in the Pavilion at Kelburn.
The briefings will be held each morning before the first HPR flyers
and RSO party leaves for the FMS, at a time to be posted in the
preceding evening on the IRW 2007 Notice Board at the Registration
Desk in the Pavilion. if you are an HPR flyer at the IRW please
attend these briefings, as they will be integral and important to the
safe, successful and enjoyable running of the event. Your co-
operation in this regard will be appreciated.

4) In the previous post about the FMS today I mentioned recovery of
rockets from Knockendon Reservoir. Rockets flown at the FMS don't
usually land in the Reservoir. However, if one does, if it has a
hollow water tight nose cone, or some other large enough air filled
water tight unit, to which everything else on the rocket is attached,
then the whole asembly will be supported in the water by the floating
part. There is usually some degree of wind blowing across the
Reservoir so in due course any water landed rocket carried by a
floating section will be blown to the shore, or close enough to it
that even if grounded on the rising-to-shore bottom of the Reservoir
it can be fetched out using a long pole with a hook carried on
floats. This works. Colin MacLaren and I retrieved an HPR vehicle of
his in excatly these circumstances and way last October. The rocket
had been in the water for over 24 hours when fished out, and once
dried out all parts, including the the avionics were reflyable and
functional. And the body tube was phenolic. Nor was it a
particularly large rocket - about 3 feet long and 2 inches or so in
diameter. What really helped in spotting it in the water was its
bright red nose cone bobbing about in the slight chop on the water.

Ok, that's it for the FMS info. As always if anyone has any questions
or queries please e-mail me, reply here, or phone me, and I will do my
best to answer.

John Bonsor,
IRW 2007 Organiser.

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