Scenario Note to self (and anyone reading)

[coffeene]

When trying to dock, for the first time ever, make sure you do NOT have the arrow freighter on auto rotation (IE: prograde). It makes it wonderfully challanging to dock. HOWEVER doing so, will erase any doubt you will have in docking again. If you can dock on a constantly drifting ship in orbit, you can dock on the ISS with your eyes closed (but dont).

 

[Urwumpe]

Why is that a problem... I always dock with the ISS in rotating frame. Makes it easier...

 

[N_Molson]

Also think to apply KILLROT on the ISS, it helps.

Remote vessel control is useful there.

 

[coffeene]

I was trying to dock the DL on the arrow and couldnt figure out why the arrow kept shifting on me. I'd have it lined up perfectly rise up into the cargo hold, shift forward and I'd be out of alignment. couldnt figure out what was going on till I finally nailed it and switched to the arrow and noticed I had horrizion turned on.


I've since docked with the ISS and didnt have to killrot. Personal goal exceded, unintentually.

 

[Urwumpe]

If you are approaching a frontal docking port while the vessel is prograde, you just need a constant rotation rate downward to follow it, while being slightly slower than the ISS.

 

[Grover]

Why not just get both vessels to hold prograde? That would make navigation even easier

 

[agentgonzo]

Why not just get both vessels to hold prograde? That would make navigation even easier

Not if one of them was the shuttle it wouldn't...

 

[grid4dante]

Haha, mine was having the arrow on prograde and wondering why the UMMU was floating inside a few minutes later... Here's the one that confuses me... I take off in the DG-IV, with the old-style fuel cargo in the bay... reach orbit, relase the cargo, auto dock with it, refuel... release it.... and instead of drifting away like it should (docking separation speed), it goes off at some weird angle... may have happened when I had already hit escape velocity, not sure...

 

[RisingFury]

Also think to apply KILLROT on the ISS, it helps.

Remote vessel control is useful there.

I never killrot slowly rotating targets like ISS.

 

[jedidia]

I didn't even notice the ISS was rotating... :blink:

 

[kevin580]

Accelerate time x100 and you'll see that.

 

[garyw]

Part of my docking checklist is to station keep about 100m from the ISS. At this point the ISS goes to 'free' drift via kill rot :lol: