Request Blackouts and Redouts

[Snake]

You know... It would be really nice if you started experiencing a blackout due to high G's in a reentry, especially while doing an inverted reentry, not to mention on the launch phase too...

Could it be doable for Orbiter?

 

[Wishbone]

Currently this is implemented in DG-IV (please read the manual for DGIV - there are a few RL diagrams on that). There are no Orbiter API means for determining acceleration/deceleration loads as of 2010-P1 (MFD and vehicle designers do the differentiation themselves). Blackout conditions differ a bit from one person to another, for all we know it could be a sentient snail or an alien in the cockpit, or the craft could be unmanned (like Buran on the last flight).

 

[Snake]

Yeah, I know about the one in the DG-IV, but even while the tertiary HUD says you're in a G-LOC you neither lose control of the ship nor have visual effects of it (screen goes black), except when you die during a G-LOC in a DG-IV '-'

I was thinking on something simple, like, just the screen going black due to high G's and going red due to high negative G's.

Blackout conditions differ a bit from one person to another, for all we know it could be a sentient snail or an alien in the cockpit, or the craft could be unmanned (like Buran on the last flight).

Something configurable... (using that graphic in the DG-IV's manual as an example)

There are no Orbiter API means for determining acceleration/deceleration loads as of 2010-P1 (MFD and vehicle designers do the differentiation themselves).

Should I conclude then that something like this has to be implemented while doing the ship altogheter? >_<

 

[Cairan]

Some information about G-forces:

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/mission.php#Effects_of_Acceleration_Forces