Recent content by Mipada

I did it Better Update of Rotational Properties (BURP) tries to fix the rolling. It subtracts the prograde rotation from the current rotation, finds the shortest path (rather than just using whatever the difference is even if it takes the long way around), finds the longest of the x, y, z...

I got stuck at L1 just last week. (But what orbinaut didn't already know this?) ;-) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/one-woman-s-math-could-help-nasa-put-people-on-mars

It looks like you're trying to automate launching into orbit. There are better ways. You can watch this: There is an autopilot MFD that you can use for takeoff, align planes, sync orbit and dock. I think it's here: Autopilot 1.72 with AIRAC and worldwide Airports Google autopilot MFD. Or...

:idea: I had the same problem It came down to using an unsupported screen resolution size. In the Video page there is the choice of Full Screen and Window. The Full Screen has a dropdown of supported resolutions and the Window version doesn't. the Window setup should take anything with a...

I know the feeling No, I think the OP was saying s/he's like to play Orbiter from his/her mobile device. I would. The best you can do (how could you fit everything on one little screen) is to watch Youtube videos. KFC (?) to ISS is good. Or, I just found Atlantis to orbit. It would be cool...

In the Orbiter.pdf (v. 2016) on page 62 there is that lovely diagram showing the attitude of the ship at prograde, retrograde, orbit normal and orbit anti-normal. It seems that rolling from one to the other would be more fuel efficient if the ship rolled only on one axis.(*) The roll code...

FYI, (I just found Orbiter 2016 - I'm a little behind) and used my link to the online Orbiter.pdf and found that it goes to Orbiter.pdf (2010). (That's why I didn't know that Orbiter had been updated.) I assume that the file has been updated. Yes, I found the new file in the Doc directory...

Ok. Thanks.

I was close to ISS and then accidentally hit the main thruster. So now, I’ve been chasing ISS all over the place and keep over correcting. I’m trying to find a point of reference. I faced Prograde, so that I have some sense of direction, and can tell if ISS is at a different altitude, above...

Success! SUCCESS! I made it into orbit on fly-by-wire mode (without auto-pilot). I used the Level Horizon AP to control the rolling. Ok, I guess I did use some AP. I put the hover engines on full, yawed right to 42 degrees, put main engines on full, after a few seconds, turned off the hover...

OK. Thanks.

Well that explains his non-committal attitude when I asked him about trim. He didn't elaborate. You can see why he's my least favorite brother. He only flew for himself and he doesn't even do that anymore. I was thinking of the flaps when a plane come in for a landing. They move a lever...

First of all, thanks for your replies. Hielor, I checked with my brother who is a pilot to confirm what I thought – the trim tabs are really to balance the plane (front to back/left to right) do to the weight differentiation of the load (passengers/cargo) so that the plane flies straight and...

The first time I used a flight simulator, I pitched up to the angle I wanted, let go of the joystick to do some keyboard operation (like raise the landing gear), and nosedived into the ground. It seems like you don't have to map the joystick input directly to the ships angle. The same with...

Is anyone posting UAP scripts? Are people typing them in by hand to a .scn file? I'd love to get a script for the DG-IV that takes me to ISS, the moon, doing a slingshot to Saturn or somewhere. Is there any other documentation other then the uap_doc.pdf (and the UAP folder with the .scn...