First Flight Version 1.0
Date Printed: 1/26/2008
Recovering your Rocket
As soon as your flight computer detects landing, it will start to read out its maximum altitude. The
numbers are beeped out in quick sequences with very brief pauses between each number sequence.
Zero is a long beep.
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Zero is represented as a long beeeep,
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One is a single quick beep.
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Two is a pair of quick beeps.
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Nine is 9 quick beeps.
After the complete altitude number is read out, the unit will pause for ONE FULL SECOND and
then repeat the number sequences until you power off the unit.
This chart shows some examples.
Altitude (feet)
Beep Code
5,081
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep (5) – long beep (0) – beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
beep, beep, beep (8) – beep (1)
12,112
Beep (1) – beep, beep (2) – beep (1) – beep (1) – beep, beep (1)
9,817
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep (9) – beep, beep, beep, beep,
beep, beep, beep, beep (8) – beep (1) – beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep (9)
The computer must be turned off and then on to reset it before you can launch again.. All your
flight data is safely stored on the Mini-SD card.
If you want to do another flight, prep the rocket and then power up the flight computer when you
get to the pad. Each flight is saved under a sequential file number.
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