The pod stuck on my boost/glider and the thing crashed. What is wrong?
You’ve just been shot down by the “Red Baron”. If the pop pod stuck, try sanding to loosen things up a bit. Or dust the mating surfaces with powdered graphite, Teflon, or even talcum powder. Check the action of the pop pod when deploying. Streamers or parachutes have a nasty habit of catching on things that you didn’t want them to, like glider wings. Sometimes fastening the recovery system to the pop pod in a different manner will prevent tangling. I use an external Kevlar line that is glued to the pylon root, but use strapping tape to fasten the line to the end of the tube just below the nose cone so the line is opposite the glider. That seems to help, at least for me. Ballasting the pop pod can also help, especially if ejection occurred long before apogee. Some pop pod systems are specifically designed to prevent this problem, Try one of them. One I favor particularly on smaller gliders is to skip the pop pod and go back to a fixed pylon like the old Sky Slash and Falcon. To keep it
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