Problem Orbiting the Moon but DG doesn't think so

[Vaillant]

Hello folks,

First post here from quite a beginner. I'm having a little issue with this flight to the moon.

Taking off from Cape Canaveral for Brighton Beach with the DGIV learning to use a bunch of new MFDs to make my life easier
Through the transfer orbit my HUD was still referencing Earth despite the lost of gravity. It never switched to Sun. I forced my orbit MFD to switch to moon.
The burn for orbiting the moon went very strange with a negative periapsis, the prograde and retrograde autopilot didn't work I had to put myself manually and was able to save the orbit.
As you can see on the picture my MAP MFD does not display any orbit and Basesynch MFD is not helping me either. When I switch to surface MFD it is still referencing Earth.

I have the feeling that Orbiter still think that I'm around the earth while I'm obviously around the moon. Is there a way to correct that?

Thank you so much in advance for your help.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

You should be able to "force" it to refer to the moon. Wit Orbit MFD, select [REF] and from the dialog, box select {Earth][Moon]. You should also be able (with Orbit MFD, use the automatic reference option, which selects the nearest SOI. Not always reliable when you around some of the smaller moons in the system.

 

[PetziK]

Hello,
I'd recommend you use youtube tutorials - for instance from david - he is brilliant in explaining for beginners.
Don't use transfer mfd - try to get interplanetary mfd from the downloads.

it has a super map tool and also the automatic course program lets you hit the moon - works also without plane change!!

basically changing the reference shouldn't be necessary.

You can use transfer mfd to launch into the interception orbit - once near moon work with the orbit mfd and set reference moon there.

you can do so when moon's gravitational influence is near 0.3...

never work with "sun" as reference - earth is too strong - and will remain the dominant gravitational source during all operations near and around moon.

good luck,
happy orbiting,

OE-PKR over

 

[dgatsoulis]

This usually happens when you have a "negative simtime", i.e. you start a scenario and then set the date via scenario editor to a date before the one you started. (Which seems to be the case in the pic you posted).

You should be ok if you follow Phantom's advice, for forcing the reference body of OrbitMFD via the "REF" button and then pressing the HUD button to get the info on the HUD.

Welcome to the forum

 

[Vaillant]

Thank you so much for all the reply. I think I had done the ref moon in Orbit MFD but that didn't work.
I had save the situation last night and today when I took it back to see if I could fix it everything was working correctly. Maybe it's me playing in scenario editor to get a good window that threw off the situation.
I was able to land without any problems.

Thank you again for your help and providing such a quick answer.