Arrow fletch direction

I've bought recurve bows, and compound bows. Usually they come with free arrows. My problem is they're fine to shoot with the recurves since the odd colored vanes face out. But on the compound bow it comes with an octane hostage-like rest (3 brushes) and I wonder if it's safe to shoot those arrows through there? I tested a few and they go fine but I suspect the nock orientation is not correct and you're chancing the arrow vanes not get caught between the brushes.

I am not able to rotate the nocks, because they're super glued in and when i tried to do that, I destroyed one arrow (the nock gets destroyed).

My choices for the compound now is this..

Build my own arrows and make the odd vane point up.
Get rid of the octane hostage-like arrow rest and use a drop-away.

I am leaving towards option 2 because it's much easier and cheaper for me since I can get cheap arrows for recurves to work with it as well.

I've never seen any cheap arrow sets with the odd vane pointing upwards.

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