Question Attitude Control MFD

VincentMcConnell

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Are there any MFDs which allow for better attitude control holding? Currently, with stock instrumentation, we can command our ship to hold attitude at Normal, Anti-Normal, Pro-grade and Retrograde, but there is no command to hold attitude at Radial or Anti-Radial, which is highly important.
Does anyone know of any MFDs that allow the pilot to hit a button and lock the ship to RAD or RAD- att?
 
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3165"]AttitudeMFD?[/ame]
 
Or this -> [ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6221"]RV Orientation[/ame]

or this -> [ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3093"]Universal Pointing MFDV2[/ame]
 
...or you can use the seldom-referenced but fantastic RCS Attitude MFD, which is part of the Orbiter 2010 stock install. Needs enabling ('ScriptMFD') in the launchpad, and has both 'radial(down/up)' (planet rad.) and 'perpendicular(in/out) (orbital plane) autopilots.
 
I use Pursuit MFD alllllll the time. It is not about just press a button and let it go sort of thing, but you can set attitude based on your velocity frame or the universal eliptical frame used by orbiter. it is elliptical not equatorial so you cant just enter historic values from Shuttle missions and expect the right results, but it is a solid MFD that does a great job and like I said I use it every time, it is a must have add-on imo.

Has some other useful features as well such as preset buttons for rotation rate and a landing autopilot for bodies without an atmosphere that also does a great job.
 
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