Rocketry Planet

I'm glad to see this. However, every time I see an article about OSFM I want a comprehensive list of all OSFM certified loads. Is there any reason the combined list cannot be updated with this information?

IT would be practical for each vendor to make a list. You know what would be even better? NAR publishes a NAR/TRA/CAR joint certified motor list. One field could be CSFM.

NAR should absolutely approach CA OSFM to entirely eliminate their MR and HPR regulations, accept NAR certification, or DOT article approval, as its standard of acceptance, and change the rule back that with oral permission from the LOCAL fire authority you can launch rockets or sell rockets.

Backup plan, an initial on a stock letter.

CA sucks and likes it that way!

Jerry

Exactly. That's what I meant by combined list in my post but it wasn't explicit enough. Since we already get information on contest eligibility and other things - why not CSFM? It wouldn't have to be considered binding - a flyer might still need to show the CA OSFM sticker/stamp on their package to the RSO. But the list would be nice to have.

Consider this fact. This suggestion has been made almost each and every year since CSFM adopted a HPR regulation to begin with. Admittedly for several years it was a bit embarrassing that the manufacturer(s) couldn't/didn't pay the fees, or that on one occasion a dealer did the process for them, or that the office themselves didn't really think through what to do after the regulations were adopted.

You know who drafted the current California State HPR regulations, for the most part? The MODEL ROCKET caucus to make HPR harder to do and less accessable. Mary Roberts and Dane Boles.

All CSFM would have had to do is ask ONLY HPR vendors to assist with HPR code, and keep the anti-HPR MR folks out of it. It probably didn't help much Charles Rogers got on that committee with a stated purpose of advocating the Teleflite (amateur rocket) position, only to both kill that and kill HPR in favor of the MR caucus.

Listen carefully. It's ALL politics. To you folks coming to LDRS in lovely California, welcome to California, the golden state. NOW GO HOME. Go to Disneyland first, we need the money.

Just Jerry

Arnold wants the fees paid to OSFM, but he could care less about the actual motors they are are "approving".