First I am new to rocksim and learning so go easy on me. I have an Estes Saturn Skylab file and When I first opened it and added an engine it would show a flight sim with results. I wanted to use the Estes F15-4 as advertised by Estes for the rocket. I had a launch or two with results but they showed it weather cocking with 8mph and 0 mph wind. I notice that the 12.31 overstable with the engine loaded?
Seems hight to me for looking at the diagram it shows maybe a little over the diameter of the body tube so why 12 and then I notice they have 30g of the 60 grams mass loaded in the front of the nose cone? I want to then enter my weight and cg and do a mass overide to see what engine I need as my rocket comes in at 625G and CG 24.0 I wanted to see what size I would need for that weight. It would not display any engines or I could enter an engine but no rocket would show up again in the Flt Sim display? I am going back to reference the Rocksim file weights vs my actual weights and see why the huge difference but I am baffled if it is so overstable why add 30 of the 60grams recomended in the nose to increase stability and increase the weight. I checked that there was no hidden mass overide but I don't understand why it will not show any rocket to flight test in Flight Sim. I will try to re-install Rocksim just incase I messed something up but it was working just fine for other rockets prior?
Thanks in advance for any insight.
Sterk03
Seems hight to me for looking at the diagram it shows maybe a little over the diameter of the body tube so why 12 and then I notice they have 30g of the 60 grams mass loaded in the front of the nose cone? I want to then enter my weight and cg and do a mass overide to see what engine I need as my rocket comes in at 625G and CG 24.0 I wanted to see what size I would need for that weight. It would not display any engines or I could enter an engine but no rocket would show up again in the Flt Sim display? I am going back to reference the Rocksim file weights vs my actual weights and see why the huge difference but I am baffled if it is so overstable why add 30 of the 60grams recomended in the nose to increase stability and increase the weight. I checked that there was no hidden mass overide but I don't understand why it will not show any rocket to flight test in Flight Sim. I will try to re-install Rocksim just incase I messed something up but it was working just fine for other rockets prior?
Thanks in advance for any insight.
Sterk03