Incredible features with a low price.
Several years ago when I was looking for a better rocket altimeter, my friends highly recommended the Flightsketch Mini altimeter. It was an excellent choice! It usually records data for the entire flight from just before liftoff until hitting the ground. This includes full altitude and acceleration data which can be easily downloaded to your phone or uploaded to the flightsketch website. The flightsketch website creates excellent graphs of your data and also calculates and plots the G's and the speed.. The data is extracted from the flightsketch mini with the excellent phone app which talks to the bluetooth on the altimeter. Once I lost my plane but found it with the bluetooth signal. Another time the tiny altimeter fell out of the payload bay and I found it with the bluetooth signal. But don't count on that! Fortunately I saw how great a unit this was and bought a 2nd unit as a spare so I fly both. One unit lost one of the small RF metal shields but it still works ok. Kudos to the developer's excellent hardware and software skills. It is too bad that he is having trouble sourcing parts. I look forward to him being able to supply them again so that others can benefit. No doubt he has another full time job and is not making any real money on this project at these prices, so cut him some slack!
Reviewed by Lane Holdcroft on Sept. 6, 2023, 7:30 p.m. | Permalink
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