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AeroLoop finds landing error before first contact

Two no-outage cases exceed the final-support position bound at contact. Retained analysis separates approach, contact and disarm while an opt-in decay candidate remains experimental.

Source: https://louijiecompo.com/updates/aeroloop-landing-contact/

No-outage baseline: distance from home, metres
Seed	First contact	At disarm	After disarm, increase
401	0.574	0.632	+0.029
503	0.354	0.384	+0.044

Both cases already exceed the 0.350 m final-support position bound at first contact. The last column is the increase in distance from home, not path length. Derived from retained JSON; no new flight.

Separate PR #25 decay experiment, original gates
Mode	Missions	Pairs	Recovery
baseline	7/12	3/6	8/12
candidate	8/12	5/6	9/12

accepted: false. The decay candidate remains experimental. PR #26 analyzes 24 retained flights and 76,824 landing rows with 0 new flights. Offline readiness is descriptive; residual impulse is not measured friction.

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PR #25 compares a fixed vertical-disturbance decay candidate with the original predictor. Across 18 new final flights and six retained references, missions improve from 7/12 to 8/12, same-mode outage pairs from 3/6 to 5/6 and recovery windows from 8/12 to 9/12. The candidate remains experimental and accepted: false.

PR #26 adds zero flights. Its landing-contact lab analyzes 24 retained flights and 76,824 full-rate landing rows. No-outage seeds 401 and 503 already exceed the 0.350 m final-support position bound at first contact. Post-disarm increases in distance from home are only 0.029 m and 0.044 m; these are not path lengths.

The next bounded experiment targets pre-contact tracking and contact orientation. Offline readiness predicates are descriptive, residual impulse is not measured friction, and AL-010 remains open. Full 3D bundles remain local. The website derives its table from the public record without executing PhysX.

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