Recent content by bande

that's in my must-do list.

no problem, I'm immune to malaria :lol:

Never been so happy of living in a place where the biggest bugs are mosquitoes.

If you really want to play electric guitar, I'd start with an electric guitar. Playing acoustic is totally different, my opinion is that it wouldn't help: under some aspects, an acoustic guitar is harder to play (greater effort to get a "clean" sound, bigger body, and the rest depends on the...

of course they do :thumbup: I never flew an heli (neither as a passenger), just sat in an Agusta A109 at an airshow when I was 6 :lol: but I was told that controlling a rotodyne is far more difficult than an aerodyne, and I believe them... and in case of engine failure, they can't glide that...

yes, approaching and landing on Europa on Orbiter can be exciting, but what about the real thing? is there any of you orbinauts who flies a plane in real life? :) Right now I'm flying microlights aircrafts (general aviation in Italy is far too expensive), and there's really no way: flying FOR...

please don't hate me, but today I can't find anything to celebrate :dry:

I do, sorry for that

this could be a good idea, but IMHO, instead of increasing gas prices, it would be better to make people think that a 4000cc engine is far too much, while the other people worldwide who drive cars that range from 1000 through 1600cc don't feel any lack of power or displacement :) I spent two...

I don't know, my engine might do, but in my country E10 isn't sold. gasoline, diesel fuel and GPL (fewer) only. anyway, I think future mobility will be based on many different solutions, like electric, bio-diesel, ethanol and so on. nowadays, it's near 100% oil-based, but it won't last...

realtime is pretty accurate also... it will bring right you on the moon, try to neglect that option, in my opinion it doesn't matter :thumbup:

I don't think getting to Europa to be so hard... I made it at the first try, it took over 2 years and a HUGE amount of fuel (when I say huge I mean REALLY HUGE). I'm gonna give another try to improve my skills, but this time I'll keep in mind to close airlocks BEFORE undocking XR2 from Arrow!

I'll take a look, I guess the first video is the one posted on FOI... but the second one focused on reentry will be very useful :) @Izack: don't worry about that, you gave helpful hints as well :thumbup:

I had a similar problem: after firing main engines, instead of modifying the real trajectory, it influenced the HTO, just like I added more delta-v, so that it spinned out in an hyperbloic orbit. you should learn to handle IMFD, it's way better, after managing that, you won't come back to...

finally, that's what I was looking for. tomorrow I'll have a try, then focus on atmospheric reentry... anyway, this trip cost too much fuel; it took about 20% of Arrow's main fuel to reach a martian stable orbit, I might had saved a little more fuel if I hadn't performed multiple correction...