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10 Comments

  1. carsondon says:
    29December21 at 2:31 pm


    One additional note, this not a sour grapes proposal. To my knowledge, I have never exceeded a record by less than or by more than the required 1%. As noted above, I have witnessed it on more than one occasion.  

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  2. cabochad says:
    06January22 at 4:07 am

     

    Agreed. Been there done that.  At least once if not twice.  Let the actual performance decide..

     

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  3. shockwaveriderz says:
    09January22 at 6:52 pm



    I agree with this. If your value exceeds the current value, then it should be a new record.

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  4. elac2az says:
    09January22 at 8:27 pm


    I support this proposal though I don’t envy the work NAR records keeper O. Lee James will have to undertake to allow the Performance Records website to keep up with this latest change should it pass. 

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  5. msh40503 says:
    10January22 at 4:26 pm

     

    I agree with this proposal.  While there is imprecision in altitude assessment, roughly the same opportunity for imprecision existed with the standing as with the new flight breaking the record. Â We shouldn’t demand though that our records be “statistically significant”!  — Patrick Peterson

     

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  6. skristal says:
    13January22 at 3:41 am


    Happened to me at NARAM this summer.  Won B-Payload with a flight of 315 m but old record was 314 m, so it didn’t reset.  The old record holder (me, LOL) thinks it’s kind of silly to not have the record reflect the “real” number.  

    But, as a flier who has set a number of altitude records, I kind of like the 1% rule because it’s a nice small arbitrary buffer to ensure the previous record really got beat.  With the issue of where and when temperatures are taken and recorded at contests, a degree or two of temperature alone can affect an altimeter altitude by more than 1%.  Also, as accurate as barometric altimeters are, if you’ve ever flown more than one in an altimeter compartment at the same time  you know that they usually show different numbers.  Occasionally way more than 1%.

    So, it’s not perfect, and at times seems kind of silly, but I think I’d stick with the 1% rule.

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  7. mbundick says:
    27January22 at 2:42 pm


    I checked the FAI rulebook for aeromodels (which included references to spacemodels) and there is no requirement there for a percentage increase in the record for it to be recognized.

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  8. DANLK66 says:
    28January22 at 2:08 pm


    I agree with this. If your value exceeds the current value, then it should be a new record.

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  9. lynntw says:
    07February22 at 2:15 am

     

    This sounds like a good idea.  There’s some inconsistency with altimeters, but there was inconsistency with optical tracking, too.

     

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  10. oljames3 says:
    15February22 at 5:01 am


    This is a bad idea. This proposal wants a new record to exceed the previous value, but does not state by how much.

    US model rocketry competition is not the Olympics or Formula 1 racing. Our tools, accuracies, and procedures do not support the same degree of precision.

    USMRSC 20.2 says altimeters must have an “… accuracy of 1 percent of recorded altitude or 2 meters, whichever is greater.” Our procedures require that we adjust the recorded altitude based on the ambient temperature at the launch site. This will be different from the temperature at apogee. Further, depending on the altitude of the launch site, the result could be very different.

    Our timing procedures are based on the mark 1 human eyeball and human reflexes. Then we average the times and round to the nearest whole second. 

    In short, our tools and procedures have many built in points of error. We have agreed that these are acceptable in competition. Record setting deserves more if we are to maintain a meaningful process.

    If we want to refine the record setting process, we must first refine the tools and procedures on which the record setting process is based.

    Of the 1268 records currently in the database, 426 could be exceeded by 1 meter or one second. A simple rounding error could lead to a false record. We need a buffer such as the 1% to maintain the validity of new records.

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