Hello from Manchester Spaceport!

[theflyingfish]

Hey everybody.

Just to help introduce myself, a brief (I hope) summary of my experiences with Orbiter.

Late in the Summer of 2009, I came across Orbiter 2006. I was amazed at the quality of the simulation ("All this for FREE!"). But I then purchased FSX around December, and forgot all about Orbiter. Orbiter had been driven from my mind. Around August 2010, I was poking around online, and remembered Orbiter. I checked the website, and was pleasantly suprised to find Orbiter 2010 there. I downloaded it, and have been playing it since.

This time around, I have dowloaded more addons, (Including dansteph's excellent DGIV-2, UMMU, and UCGO addons. And dont forget the XR-class vessels.) and am planning to learn to program just so I can design addons for Orbiter. (Yes, I am Addicted.) I am currently trying to dock with the ISS, a maneuver most Orbinauts could do in their sleep, but I find infuriating. I keep having trouble syncing with ISS. Our orbits are the same, but I can't seem to catch up. :shrug: Oh, well. Happy flying.


Also, what is with the Hail Probe stuff? Is it some secret inside joke that I don't know about, or something else? :hmm:

 

[Urwumpe]

Also, what is with the Hail Probe stuff? Is it some secret inside joke that I don't know about, or something else? :hmm:

No secret inside joke...its the official forum deity.

http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Probe

Hail

 

[Izack]

to Orbiter-Forum!

I keep having trouble syncing with ISS. Our orbits are the same, but I can't seem to catch up.

If your orbits are the same, that means you're both travelling at the same velocity, so you'll never catch up. If you're a little behind the ISS, burn retrograde for a few seconds at periapsis to lower your orbit (but not too low or you'll reenter!). After a few orbits, you should have caught up to the ISS. When you're close (preferrably less than 200km), match your orbit back up with the ISS (easiest way is to lower "-V[ISS]" on the Docking HUD by burning towards it until it's near zero.) After that, it's fairly simple to spot the station and manoeuvre towards it. Then align and dock. :thumbup:

There are many more advanced techniques to this, and I only scratched the basic principles behind this arcane wizardry of Rendezvous. A much better and more in-depth explanation is found in Go Play in Space (Chapter 5,) which is a manual anyone here would recommend to the new user.

Happy orbiting!

 

[Geirunni]

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[Tex]

Hi there, welcome to the forum! You may also find my video tutorial useful for syncing orbits with ISS:

http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=2055

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

to the forum!

 

[Izack]

Hi there, welcome to the forum! You may also find my video tutorial useful for syncing orbits with ISS:

http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=2055

That's a better link. Actually, that's the tutorial that first got me to the ISS. Right down to the part where I crunched the nosecone! I learned from the best I guess.

 

[Tex]

:rofl: you weren't supposed to follow me in with your nose cone closed! Yea, I can't believe I forgot that. I just laughed, thought oh well.. I'm not re-doing that again.

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Tex and Izack are joking, you are supposed to dock with the nose cone closed... :shifty:

Darren

PS:

 

[fireballs619]

Tex and Izack are joking, you are supposed to dock with the nose cone closed... :shifty:

Darren

PS:

Wait, we are? That explains that bolt-locking sound I keep getting when I dock! I knew there was something wrong :lol:

 

[HAL9001]

to the forum!