Flight Question Moon and other planets

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Does anyone have a SIMPLE tutorial on how to get to the moon or Mars using either IMFD or TransX? Every tutorial I've seen is too complex and hard to understand. I guess, I'm basically asking for a general tutorial on how to USE IMFD or TransX. Thanks in advance.
 
This is for going to the moon

1. First you get a Deltaglider IV with unlimited fuel docked to the ISS.
2. Then open up IMFD
3. Press menu
4. Press course
6. Press target
7. Type moon (press enter on your keyboard after this)
8. Press the PG button on the left
9. Press AB completely on the right bottom
10. wait untill the countdown has finished and your engines stop
11. Repeat step 9 a few times during the travel

For going to mars this is exactly the same except for this
1. Between 3 and 4 press orbit eject
2. In orbit eject press PG
3. Press AB
4. Open orbit MFD on your other screen and wait untill the G at the bottom has lowered to 0.49
5. Repeat 4/5/6/7(instead of moon, mars ofcourse)8/9/10/11
 
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I do not see anything that says "orbit eject" in "Course".
 
Whoops I messed something up.
as you can see by the absence of point 5 I solved it and it should be working.
 
Whoops I messed something up.
as you can see by the absence of point 5 I solved it and it should be working.

Yep. I figured it out and I've gotten to the moon every time, but I still need to figure out how to get in a LOW orbit of anywhere from 150 - 300 km, but any time I get in orbit with the moon, I get in a high orbit ranging anywhere from 1500 - 5000 km. Here's how I've been attempting to get into orbit. Please correct any mistakes I may have made:

1. Open IMFD
2. In IMFD, go in "Orbital"
3. Press "PG" until you get to "Find Target"
4. Press "TGT" on the left and type "Moon" in the box
5. Press "AB" on the bottom right
 
Do you mean coming from the earth to the moon?
The best thing you could do is going to orbital and select circularize.
I don't really know what find target does.
 
Yes! I did it! I finally left earth orbit, went to the moon and got in a low lunar orbit of about 167 km.

I do have one more thing, though. I was only able to do this with AMSO, and I could never get it to work with the Delta-Glider or any other craft. When I tried with the Delta-Glider, the glider's angle for leaving earth orbit was all whacked and when the rockets fired, it just crashed back down to the earth instead of going to the moon. How do I fix this?
 
Most likely, you crashed into the Earth because you weren't at the ejection point at ejection time. IMFD will show two dotted radial lines. One shows the ejection point, and the other shows where you will be at ejection time. They should overlap. Adjust your TEj until they do. Any changes you make to your orbit, including plane changes, will affect this, as will time (if you aren't ejecting on the current orbit).

The instructions above are vastly oversimplified, and will only work you get lucky on a few points, don't change your orbit in any way, and will eject on the current orbit.

I have been working on a few tutorials covering the basics of spaceflight. Unfortunately I haven't been able to put in much time on this, so a moon flight tutorial is still at least a month away, perhaps more. These tutorials will include annotated flight recordings and a PDF manual. They will cover just enough theory to let you understand how to choose the correct variables, and the flight will show how to put that theory into practice. Many of the other tutorials available focus too much on theory without showing you how to use that theory, or are simple "follow these exact steps using the exact numbers I give you, but I won't tell you why I chose those specific numbers" type that only tell you how to fly that specific scenario, and not how to use those techniques in another scenario. I'll try to cover both theory (without overwhelming people) and practice, and will explain how the numbers are arrived at so you can use the techniques in other flights. They'll be showing up on OH under the title "The Basics: insert name of operation here". They'll start showing up in a few weeks, as I can find the time to do them correctly. Please be patient, if I rush these they won't be nearly as useful, and may even be more confusing than educational.
 
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