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If you have an extreme flight, say 50,000', it may take a bit longer to get up there, let's say 45
seconds. That's 900 samples, leaving 1100. If you take the rate down to 1 sample per second
(reasonable since the events are happening relatively slowly and the air is pretty thin at 50K),
you still have 1100 seconds, or over 18 minutes. No way it's gonna take that long to come
down, unless for some reason the main comes out near apogee. At a conservative 50 ft/sec
average speed under drogue, it's going to take 1,000 seconds, leaving you with at least 100
samples. Remember that at that altitude the air is very thin, so you're going to be coming down
faster near apogee than you will be when the air thickens as you descend. It's very likely that
you're going to be using a lot less memory than that.
So, as you see, there's plenty of memory for just about any flight scenario if you manage it
wisely. For just about any flight under 30,000', just leave it at 20 samples per second for the
Launch rate and 2 samples per second for the Descent rate, and you'll be fine.
The Flights Page
Clicking on the Flights link takes you to a page that allows you to select a flight for flight
milestone display, and download a detailed .csv file that you can use with Excel or other data
analysis programs to extract graphs and do other fun things. We'll go into that a bit later...
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