Flight Question Interplanetary Transitions

[SteveX]

Hello,
could someone provide me a link on a text how-to on interplanetary travel?

I would just like to inform you about my current skills:

1.) Any docking-capable spacecraft to orbit and ISS, even on fuel-tight reserves: ✔
2.) Landing on the Moon, with perfect landings on designated locations: ✔
3.) Re-entery, airbraking manuevers, free returns, etc: ✔

I want to move to the next level, but I cannot understand David Courtney's tutorials somehow, neither I have much time to watch it (and he didn't make a video for 2 months. PLZ COME BACK! WE NEED YOU!).

Any beginner help? Thank you.

**Commander EvESpirit dismisses! Good day, sir!**

P.S.: Any Star Trek fans here?

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Plenty of Trek fans here.

If you do a search over at the hangar, ar81 had a pretty good walkthrough/checklist of IMFD from LEO to Mars (I think). LEO to somewhere anyway. There was a small tutorial regarding interplanetary flight, but the walkthrough is what got me through.

For your reading pleasure there is also the IMFD Full Manual, it's pretty much the guide for IMFD, all you need to know is in there.

 

[SteveX]

Plenty of Trek fans here.

Good! Nice to know where I stand.

If you do a search over at the hangar, ar81 had a pretty good walkthrough/checklist of IMFD from LEO to Mars (I think).

Do you mean [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3433"]this[/ame] or [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3403"]this[/ame]? And is it useful anyhow when I don't understand IMDF and I only understand TransX partitially? I always used differend MFD's and would need a quick walkthrough. I've been sitting on Star Trek and Kerbal Space Program for far too long, yea.

P.S.: What do you think about New Horizons passby Pluto? I hope I will see some valuable high-res Pluto maps in Orbiter 15 soon

Edit: I am sorry, but could you provide me some links for IMFD tut? I can't find any. I really feel like I'm beginner to this. Sry.

 

[Ripley]

There you go
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4142"]IMFD Full Manual/Playbacks[/ame]


Here is blixel's entire playlist about IMFD training, when you find the time...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPu_SHPaJzs7Cp8OBsj41Ka-EIhReBbSJ

 

[SteveX]

Thank you.

when you find the time...

Yeap. I don't have time for 4 episodes of David describing how you need to fiddle everything around to work it when I actually know 80% of everything he says. I would need about 5 minutes of every episode he makes.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3403"]Tutorial: Concepts for Interplanetary MFD 4.2.1[/ame]

Eventually you will be able to use TransX and IMFD at the same time. Independently they work great, but this is mostly a checklist of what to do, not so much as a why this is done and what this means, etc...