pub const HIGH_ANGLE_MIN_FORCE_SHARE: f64 = 0.2;Expand description
The share of the rocket’s weight below which an angle of attack doesn’t count: at that instant a 15° angle must give a normal force of at least a fifth of the weight. Chosen rather than measured (the envelope flags’ decision record): below it gravity, not the air, does most of the turning, so an error in that force moves the flight little. As the path turns over near apogee the angle passes 15° on an ordinary flight where 15° gives 0.7% to 5.0% of the weight (on the tests’ RocketPy rockets off 84° and 85° rails); a wind layer met at speed, 62% to 141%.