This is the newest addition to my family.

Very nice.

Here's a picture of my Oracle family. I bought three Oracles and built different boosters for two of the cameras.

One of the boosters is a Semroc Goliath kit with a 24mm motor mount. I can fly the Oracle on a C11-3 in a schoolyard with this model.

The other booster is a Estes Omega clone. The two-stage Omega was the booster of choice for the Estes Cineroc 8mm film camera in the 1970s.

All of my rockets/cameras have flown many successful flights, two being at NARAM-49.

Just follow the instructions and it will work just fine.

Bob

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I flew my Omega clone at NARAM too.
I even added a THIRD stage!
Did you do any special venting of the stage couplers or did you leave them stock?

-Chris

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I did put some small vent holes in the stage coupler AND the first stage motor mount tube.

I have only flown the Omega/Oracle once. The rocket was going horizontal at burnout and at ejection the Oracle slammed back into the lip of the body tube. Body tube damaged, camera mirror hood cracked. I haven't fixed it, yet.

Bob

Did you mean to say the booster stage centering rings had small vent holes similar to the SEMROC Firefly?

I used a hole-puncher to punch holes in the stage couplers AND body tubes of all 3 stages, making sure all were perfectly aligned. Worked flawlessly and had a neat look to it.

Chris

I would like to point out that the shockcord is really important on the Oracle. Our first flight had the nosecone and parachute float away into a high tree.

I've since converted to a "quest style" kevlar to motor mount configuration with stout kevlar.

Lost an entire afternoon with the stock mount but became an expert at using a retrieval pole.

John

Anybody have problems getting the software to work? I've tried 3 different systems now and I keep getting errors

I have a Compaq Presario with XP. I didn't have trouble loading the software. The Oracle did fine. The video is terrible compared to other video i've seen. It'll do for now.