Flight Question Landing on phobos

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Id love to be able to use the docking mfd. The orbit mfd isnt much help because of the negligible gravitational pull. And I can hardly tell where to point the ship do slow down my speed relative to phobos. Figured it out, just had to reference Phobos in the orbit mfd and adjust my trajectory using the hud markings.
 
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If you're going with default MFDs, use Surface MFD and HUD to land. You can use Surface MFD to kill horizontal speed - look at the gauge showing the rate of change of latitude/longitude.

To match your orbital speed with Phobos, you can do it easily with IMFD. But you can also use SyncMFD (to monitor your approach) with surface HUD (to monitor your relative speed to Phobos) - or TransX. To kill rel speed, you can do this: if you're coming from Mars or another lower orbit, point to orbital prograde (using the prograde button) and, when close to the moon, turn on the engines until your relative speed turns manageable with RCS thrusters (if you're coming from a higher orbit, like from Deimos, point to retrograde).

Then, switch to the orbital hud and use RCS to let the prograde mark pointing to Phobos. When you're close enough, put the ship in HORZ LVL mode and use the translational RCS to kill horizontal speed and control vertical speed, with Surface MFD and HUD.


EDIT: I made a flight to Phobos now, I forgot to tell that you can choose Phobos as reference in Orbit MFD and click on "HUD" button. Your HUD will change its reference from Mars to Phobos. Then, point retrograde (manually) and fire the engines to build a pseudo-orbit around Phobos and choose a landing target.
 
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A bit OT Re: your question, but do you know this?
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5867"]Hall Base on Phobos[/ame]
 
You must mean with no base eh? Because if you have the prelude on there you CAN just use docking MFD. Can ucgo auto probe beacon land itself on Phobos? That would be easier as well.
 
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