Hi!

[BioEgo]

Hello everybody from Italy:hello:! I've been here, lurking the forums for quite a while now, but I think it's now time to at least say "hi!". I've been using Orbiter since 2005, though in a discontinous way (last hiatus lasted about 2 years, enough to forget almost everything!).
My accomplishments so far are:

- Reaching LEO from anywhere almost always on the right target inclination (well a couple degrees off sometimes) with DG-style ships (stock DG, DG-IV and the various XRs);

- Randevouz and dock with the ISS (even if not in less than 10 minutes, as I've seen some of you are able to do, at least in less than 10 hours );

- Transfer to the moon, mars, venus and back (using Transfer MFD);

- Reentry and landing (well mostly crashing:facepalm where I've planned to.

Next in my task list are:

- Learning how to fly the Space Shuttle (reached LEO a couple of time with the stock Atlantis, but I think it was purely by chance!);

- Learning how to properly use TransX or IMFD to better plan Moon or interplanetary transfers;

- Try some very cool manouvres I've seen in the forums (reaching ISS in few minutes, Earth to Moon with free return, etc.) and obviusly learn how to plan them properly;

- Generally raise my precision;

- Definitely learn how to land after reentry without almost always crashing my ship (even if usually I can walk away from it's poor remains).

That's all for now, so thank you all for the help you've given me till now and for all the help I'm sure I'll get from all of you in the future!!

See you in the forums,
Bye!
BioEgo


Uh I was almost forgetting......obviously Hail The Probe!!

 

[IronRain]

You've came to the right place to learn the things you've mentioned above :thumbup:
To the forum

 

[Voyager]

<S> I salute you good Italian! Salve Bioege, habeo tu (been) ad urbem Romam?

I don't know been in Latin.

 

[Rtyh-12]

to the forums! I hope you'll learn the things you mentioned above! By the way, flying the Shuttle to orbit isn't THAT hard, here's a tip: try pitching up (relative to you) 5 degrees every 8 kilometers altitude. It's not how the real Shuttle does it, but it's a good start.:thumbup:

 

[HAL9001]

to the forums!

 

[BioEgo]

@all: Thanks for the welcome!!

@Voyager: I've been in Rome a few times (I live near Milan, some 600Km north of Rome), mainly for work!! As far as latin is concerned: I'm (well at least I was, in my highschool days) able to translate from latin to italian (and english), but the reverse has always been a pain! "have you been" should translate as "fuisti", past perfect second person of "esse" ("to be"), resulting in "Ave BioEgo, fuisti ad urbem?" (usually in latin if not specified "urbe" is Rome). Btw, don't take my translation as granted since it has been a looong while since last time I tried to write in latin!!

@Rtyh-12: Thanks for the tip! I usually get lost right at the beginning when performing the roll to point towards the correct heading: there's something I still miss there (probably something very stupid:embarrassed and I usually end up heading the wrong way:facepalm:. I've to admit it has been a while since last time I tried, I hope to have enough freetime during this Xmas break to try it again!

 

[Voyager]

Taking my first course in Latin, but I have the hang of it and done my own research.

 

[BioEgo]

Taking my first course in Latin, but I have the hang of it and done my own research.

Good luck with your studies then!!:thumbup:

I always wondered how difficult learning latin could be for someone not natively speaking a neolatin language: it was quite difficult even for me and I could take advantage of the many similarities with my own mother tongue. The main problem for me was that outside school time I've never had a real reason to use it, particularly speaking or translating to it.

So I wish you all the best in your efforts!!!:tiphat:

Bye!

 

[Voyager]

I speak both English and Russian. I know a good deal of Russian, da. Become one with me, da? (Note Hetalia Axis Powers)

 

[Rtyh-12]

I always wondered how difficult learning latin could be for someone not natively speaking a neolatin language: it was quite difficult even for me and I could take advantage of the many similarities with my own mother tongue.

I don't know, possibly hard. I can understand Italian quite well if it's written although I never took any lessons, because (according to Wikipedia) Romanian is 75% similar to Italian. However, other languages are haaaaaaaaard...

At least they are harder than Italian...