I am starting the process for getting a class 3 waiver for a rocket launch. Most of the FAA required documentation looks straight forward. One piece of information they require is "The dynamic stability characteristics for the entire flight profile." A static stability analysis is straight-forward, but I have never done a dynamic stability analysis.
How have folks on this list addressed this requirement? Is this software driven analysis or just hand-calculations? Does anyone have an analysis they could share? If software analysis is the norm, can anyone point me to affordable software?
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