Recent content by Tniffoc

Sorry for the complete, but temporary threadjack, how did you change the color of your glass cockpit?

I'm new but wouldn't it be cool if you could deploy separate "languages" of sounds and textures? Kind of like you can choose between skins on the DGIV.

Alright! I was able to get dV down to a reasonable amount by using translations to keep the green x aligned during the burn. Unfortunately, my orbit still appears to be quite different from that of the hypothetical burn. Could this much of a difference be caused by a 3 second late burn?

Not until near the end of the burn, I kept trying to chase the green x around with rotation thrusters. Near the end of the burn, I did use the translation thrusters. Is it just me or did it not look like flytandem was using any translation thrust to keep it aligned until the very end? What...

I would definitely include IMFD, and maybe LunarTransfer MFD in my base install. That's probably because I find interplanetary flights to be much more interesting then repeated docking maneuvers. First time I did KSC->Moon->Wheel Dock was pretty fun though.

I didn't use 1/10th time for anything during the burn, I used on my 4th (or so) attempt at burning in my Eject values. I just used it about 30s prior to the burn to line up the green x as best I could. It took WAY longer for me to do it than it did for flytandem to do it, and he was on 1x time...

Hi all, I'm Tniffoc, I started using Orbiter about 6 months ago because I watched a documentary on all the major NASA missions from Mercury through present. If you want to check it out its entitled When We Left Earth and its available for instant streaming on netlfix. I live in the U.S. and my...

I had a similar thought process, I was originally playing with nonsperical gravity sources and Gravity-gradient torque on, but I disabled them when my x seemed to be moving in ways unlike the tutorial. It still seems to drift majorly for me. 1. IIRC, my Ecc was pretty darn low. 2. Originally...

Thanks a bunch! I'll make sure to pay more attention to the Rinc value next time. I'm still having the same problem with burning in the plan though. Even when I slow time down to 1/10th of normal to make sure I get the x almost perfectly centered, and use the kill rotation autopilot, the green x...

When you hit the gas on your car when you're driving in snow, and you skid, you freak out because your car's navigation system didn't say "rotation" when you attempted to switch back to rotational RCS mode to correct for the skid.

IIRC I got the Rinc down to 0.05, and I don't think I've warped from the time when I made the plane alignment burn and the time of the posted scenario. Again, I'll take a look at it when I get home, I was able to get at the scenario over a file share, but I cannot run orbiter from where I am...

I'll post the scenario as soon as I get home. I've used the Align MFD to get my rInc to 0.05 (this wasn't the best flight) and I use the forward translation thrusters towards the end of the burn instead of "feathering" the main engine throttle. EDIT: Scenario attached.

Its currently set to 0.20

Alright, now that I've managed to seem to get the burn correct, the display of my orbit relative to my target orbit is still WAY off. Screenshot below. Any ideas?

I'm learning TransX before IMFD as it seems to me to be teaching more about the mechanics of interplanetary travel. While IMFD sounds convenient, I would rather know WHY IMFD is doing what it is doing before I start using it. I began using it and I felt like I was inputting random values, so I...