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Thanks for confirming that.

There I am, practising and starting to feel right at home in the Earth-Moon system. Most gripping game since Elite :-) A few questions still nag me: Whenever I make an orbital course correction, I use the autopilot to align me with the cardinal directions. During the burn I keep the autopilot...

The "Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2006 Edition" PDF that comes with the game. Ok, now I get it! They are just the ApD and PeD figures of my current orbit, right? I was confused by the "helion" suffix... Thank you!

Hi spacefarers, I noticed that the surface MFD sometimes displays red markers labeled "AP" and "PE" in its altitude ribbon. The handbook tells me those are the aphelion and perihelion markers, but does not give further explanation. I can't figure this out. What has sun distance got to do with...