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The Go Play In Space series of tutorials covers using IMFD to transfer to Mars. It is a little complex to learn, but once you understand the concepts and terminology and play around with it a little bit, it's easy to program even very advanced flights.

I figure it'll probably be a good challenge for if I ever want to tax my brain. Plus, I'll always have a bit of a soft spot for it, because I flew my first Grand Tour in that ship.

Oh, there's no doubt that it's harder, that's why I came on here and whined about it. Also why I'm going to the actual DGIV to do some practice before I bother trying again with the stock DG.

It works great, as long as you have the right spaceplane :facepalm: After practicing and learning more about the re-entry process, I may see if I can figure out how to re-enter the considerably liftier DeltaGlider.

The latest release does have .ld files for the stock DG, as well as DGIV, DGXR1, the XR2 and the XR5.

Okay, orbinauts, first of all, all y'all are awesome. :hailprobe: I found where I've been going wrong: I referred to the "stock DG" as the DGIV, because that's what Orbiter calls it. I went and downloaded dansteph's DGIV-2, and I immediately noticed that the 40 degree AoA showed a clean, smooth...

Let me guess, it doesn't have the nice AoA autopilot, either.

I figured out, at least, that part of the problem was that I was using Aerobrake's AoA autopilot and was attempting to adjust the angle manually, seeing as how it doesn't have an adjustment on it. As a result, when I would go to make an adjustment in certain phases of the re-entry, it would not...

Hello Orbinauts. :hailprobe: So I've been working on my Earth atmosphere re-entries with the DGIV before moving on to the more technically difficult Mars re-entry. I've been trying to use Basesync and Aerobrake MFD's to guide me down to Cape Canaveral, but at some point during the re-entry...

Hey all. I have more than a few Earth atmospheric re-entry trips under my belt, and I know that Earth's atmosphere is much thicker than Mars's and is thus able to slow me down from a much higher speed. My question is, is it possible using, say, the Delta-Glider to re-enter directly into Mars's...

Hi all. My name is Noah, I currently live in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, I've been an on-again-off-again space geek since the age when it was cool to want to be an astronaut. I used to rock the original Microsoft Space Simulator and even worked on calculating my own orbits. I found...