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Paul Hardcastle -Lazy Days Easy.......

I could of just PRO300SPEC0'D it ! - great autopilot on the DG4...what do the real Shuttle pilots do ? - manual ?

Blixel - its sorted ! Got up to about 35 km away and forgot too null velocity IN THE DIRECTION OF THE CROSS SYMBOL THINGY ! Ha, was trying to null looking at the ship proximity distance - other than that , got too within 20 cm of docking and ship was at wrong angle but lots of fun...

thanks for your patience, I'm just not sure when to null my velocity, at say 35 km ISS is showing as 100m/s Rvel, I try and null it then , fine, but the close I get the Rvel starts shooting off again. Chasing this figure down doesnt seem right.

Thanks Blixel - a lot clearer now - I do know what to do, except I cannot get the velocity vector + in a circle over ISS - how did you manage this ?, I am in docking mode .....

Blixel , unfortunately not - At 10 k or so , Rvel is 100-200m/s , constantly falling all the way down too 0m/s, and then this figure starts climbing into the negatives -1m/s , -20m/s etc while ISS slides by.

Tex - I have all Perturbations off - do you mean the 'log' file - where ever I might find that ? - otherwise the situation is as the video shows - getting DeltaV down to less than 0.1 m/s - at that point I am 400k away from ISS. I simply speed up time until perhaps 10 k away at which time at...

Thanks for the link Blixel - I will watch that. Im not that enamoured with TransX at the mo, just want to dock - otherwise what kind of laughing stock of a orbinaut am I! :). Taking the 'calming' aspect a little further, and transgressing a little...orbiter preceded Google earth by a few...

Ha, awesome - quick reply - and I do indeed have non spherical ON - .....thanks. Strange 'game' this , as difficult as certain parts are , it is almost a calming experience to pilot a craft over the planet - the exactness of every move required and the speeds involved to end up docking at...

Hi all , Long term Orbiter, long term in that I first tried Orbiter back in 05 - only recently really getting back into it . Starting from scratch is hard. I have the patched 2010 version and DG4. ProSpec'd my way into orbit - easy, aligned planes too within 0.000 degrees fine, sync...