Your Experience in Orbiter

[Kyle]

What do you classify your knowledge, and or skill in Orbiter of these topics?
I say experienced Orbiternaut, I've played for years and years, from 2003 actually and its been good fun, I've flown with Limited fuel to Neptune, gone to the moon with nothing else but the MFD that indicates your orbit and the MFD for your Map with limited fuel.

 

[Woo482]

well all I can do is go to the moon with orbit and map mfd and some times that IMFD autopilot that makes your orbit have 0 eccentricity but I still cannot dock so I would say I am a Orbiternaut

 

[astrosammy]

I would say Experienced, I'm able to fly to any Planet with all available tools (TransX, IMFD), and to Moon only with the help of Map and Orbit MFD. I can dock to space stations and 95% of my reentries hit the target base. I flew probes to Apophis, Mars and Moon, flew the Apollo 11 mission and can launch every rocket manually.

 

[HiPotOk1978]

I can fly around the inner solar system with probes and the like, done several missions to low orbit around Venus, I can make it to Mars and back barely as long as I don't attempt a landing I also sent probes out to Jupiter, made some surface bases... I think I qualify as Orbiternaut

 

[Kaito]

I classified myself as Orbiternaut. I can fly to the moon and back, dock with ISS (and pretty much any other thing), and can re-enter within 10km of base

 

[Andy44]

Okay, the term is "Orbinaut", not "Orbiternaut".

BTW Orbiterhead or Orbiter Dork is only slang, and acceptable only among fellow Orbinauts. MS FS people can get hurt calling somebody an Orbiter Dork.

 

[wehaveaproblem]

I went with Orbitnaut.

I can do the basics, but efficiency is not my thing. I probably have the knowledge and ability to be experienced, but spend too long doing other stuff and making addons to really up my stick-jockey skills.

 

[Urwumpe]

Experienced Orbinaut... advanced is a bit too low in my personal understanding, regarding the fact that I went to all planets, can get anywhere and can also fly pretty much any spacecraft around.

 

[2552]

I put Advanced, because I managed to fly the Grand Tour for the first time recently (Using the James Cook and a bunch of Shuttle-As).

 

[steph]

Being able to do a moonshot and to rendezvous in orbit, I guess it's ok for orbiternaut. Or a Noob?

 

[IjonTichy]

I think I am an advanced Orbinaut. I can dock with Space stations with nonspherical gravity sources and gravity-gradient torque enabled. I can do interplanetary flight with the Transfer MFD only and multiple slingshots with TransX. And recently I managed to fly the Shuttle into orbit manually. However, I still can not do precise reentry.

 

[Pilot7893]

I've made it to a different planet twice, I've made it to the moon many times, 98% of my reundevous are sucessful, I reentered to a base once, I will say I am an orbinaught.

 

[pete.dakota]

I thought we were all Orbinauts, right?

"Orbiternaut" isn't really a thing, nor is "Orbinaught".

Also, it's spelled "Experience".

 

[Omhra]

Experienced.
Moon trips are always good...
Gone out to mars and established capture and orbit with aerobraking, been to both moons there and orbited them by means of a "weird" orbit around mars... Then to Jupiter. There I moon hopped From Io to Europa and then returned to Earth and made a smooth landing.
I can get to ISS in under 40 minutes...
But... BUT... I Am still learning to fly the Saturn V...

 

[Tommy]

I'd say advanced, I can reliably do the basics like Ascent to a specific plane, rendevouz and dock, Use transX of IMFD for lunar or interplanetary, slingshots, re-entry on target, direct re-entry, etc. I haven't tried multiple slings, and can't claim proficiency on all types of craft.

 

[wehaveaproblem]

Another thought, should there be some distinction between our Orbiter experience and our piloting ability? I would wager I am an experienced Orbiter user, but still a largly orbitard pilot.

 

[flytandem]

Experienced, but just a specialist. Give me the stock DG and the latest copy of TransX and the solar system is my playground. Otherwise, I'm dead in the water. And no interest in clicking dozens of buttons to make a spacecraft work, which is why the stock DG is all I ever learned. And I found IMFD too automated for my liking. Not to discount the incredible tool that it is. Quite the contrary. It's just that TransX provides the challenge I thirst for. I want to be able to make my own 3 dimensional choices about getting from place to place instead of letting an autopilot choose it. And I'm wondering if anyone out there has any trajectory challenges to post. Having bounced off all the planets a hundred times each, it has become .... I hate to admit, boring. C'mon all you experienced Orbi-nots, let's take turns challenging each other.

 

[flying coffin]

OK, I have a challenge for you. (Maybe it's not a challenge for *you*, but...)

Try the LRO/LCROSS mission (recently posted on OH). There is only one
flyby, but you have to get it *just* right.... you have zip for excess dV.

The other challenge is getting the LCROSS impact when LRO is right overhead.

Still not challenging enough you say? Turn on meshland and try to HIT LRO
with LCROSS

 

[Piper]

Experienced, but just a specialist. Give me the stock DG and the latest copy of TransX and the solar system is my playground. Otherwise, I'm dead in the water. And no interest in clicking dozens of buttons to make a spacecraft work, which is why the stock DG is all I ever learned. And I found IMFD too automated for my liking. Not to discount the incredible tool that it is. Quite the contrary. It's just that TransX provides the challenge I thirst for. I want to be able to make my own 3 dimensional choices about getting from place to place instead of letting an autopilot choose it. And I'm wondering if anyone out there has any trajectory challenges to post. Having bounced off all the planets a hundred times each, it has become .... I hate to admit, boring. C'mon all you experienced Orbi-nots, let's take turns challenging each other.

Have you tried any of the "Chapman Challenges?"

 

[usfup328]

I put Advanced. Mainly because I'm able to push things beyond their boundaries. As well as Earth to Mars missions with sling shots around the moon.