Flight Question Help with Nav Beacons, XPDR, etc...

[Ross]

Hello. I am trying to take my XR5 up into orbit and rendezvous with one of Greg Burch's "Airdock 2's", but it doesn't have any XPDR transmitters. I tried to go into the scenario file and add an XPDR frequency to the Airdock, but it didn't show up when I went back in. Also, the Airdock doesn't have any docking frequencies when I check the vehicle description in-game (with Ctrl-I).

So my question is, how am I actually supposed to find this thing in space? (I have aligned planes and synced orbits, and I am relatively close to it, I just don't have any Nav beacons to use...)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Wishbone]

I suppose you're in visual distance doing prox ops. Use Docking MFD and select target manually. The VIS button does help if you can see the docking node of the target.

 

[Ross]

Yes, I am in visual distance, but sometimes I mess up a little bit and end up a few (~25 ) km high...it seems that when I target the vessel manually that I don't get the nice box for the position of the vessel and it's velocity indicators on my HUD.

I have one solution, which is to dock a DG inside the airdock2, then use it's transponder to make my approach. I would rather have the option to not have a ship up there though...

---------- Post added at 11:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:40 PM ----------

Oh my goodness, I can't believe how stupid I feel right now.

----HUD button. DUH. Whoa. hud backwards is duh? well who would have guessed.