We have tried the posted list of NAR TARC mentors, but there are none near enough to us to meet with us in-person to help. What can we do now?
Some TARC teams end up with no in-person mentor, either by choice or by necessity, and still manage to launch successful qualification flights. It’s just a little more difficult, not impossible. The TARC Handbook and the week-by-week guide to what teams are supposed to be stepping through provide a lot of the guidance that a mentor would do in person, if they are read, understood, and followed. The “Handbook of Model Rocketry”, offered for sale to teams at a discount rate from NAR Technical Services is the best start-from-scratch text ever written on how to do model rocketry. The 4 rocketry companies listed in the Handbook that specifically cater to TARC teams can help you on the phone in picking supplies and components if you still cannot interpret their catalogs after reading these resources. And the NAR_TARC Yahoo group that we tell all teams to join is a good place to post questions online to get “virtual” mentoring or to ask for one of the mentors who is on this forum to contact y
