Apollo AMSO Autopilot? Im going crazy!

[diggercam88]

Im really confused with AMSO. Is the whole Apollo 11 flight autopilot beside's J,K... key's? Is the actual whole mission flown by autopilot? I'm getting frustrated with Orbiter and these 50+ page "easy tutorials" with these tei burns, IMFD's and stuff. I dont understand !!!!! Is AMSO going to automatically retract the LEM for me or do I have to do it? Can somebody please help me! AAAHHHH!!!:compbash:

 

[caningo]

I advise you to look at this thread: http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=1303, as it is a very useful guide/tutorial that explains how AMSO works.

Cheers

 

[diggercam88]

Im just lacking patience at the moment...

Thanks for the help

 

[Woo482]

Trust me you want to use orbiter you will have to read lots of tutorials.

 

[Omhra]

Its like wanting to run but finding it harder than crawling therefore stopping to sleep?

 

[Urwumpe]

Didn't you read the part of the orbiter homepage saying that Orbiter has a very steep learning curve?

 

[caningo]

Didn't you read the part of the orbiter homepage saying that Orbiter has a very steep learning curve?

STAMP. The first weeks I started playing Orbiter, I had to print a lot of manuals to understand the basics. I've been playing since early summer and I still to this day read and print manuals. So trust us... reading manuals and tutorials is a standard way of life in the Orbiter world. :lol:

 

[garyw]

One of things I did was print out the orbiter manual plus any manuals the addons came with and bound them into a booklet. I then read them on the train to and from work, a few times I had specific questions I could look up but most of the time it was idle browsing. I still refer to them from time to time when i want to try something new!

 

[diggercam88]

:blush:Yeah, i've got about 300+ Pages of instructions and manual's. It get's quite confusing flipping from page to page but I still survive and sometimes I find myself flying about WAY past the moon (my objective is the moon) and just saying "oh well, i'll get it eventually". I love the game regardless of the skill required to play and i'm still in the very early learning stages of even the basics of space travel.

The farthest I can get in AMSO on the 11 mission is LEM extraction and it seems when I get the CSM and LEM lined up my CSM just goes thru the LEM like its a static object???!!?!

 

[kato223]

Diggercam,

I have found that after lining up the CSM and LEM, slow down the simulation by pressing R so time shows 0.1, the ships will still be moving closer together, then press D when they are close enough, and the CSM should dock to the LEM. I think in mine, something is missing because I cannot extract the LEM from the last stage of the rocket. I can dock them, but cannot remove the LEM..

 

[2552]

After docking, press J to remove the LEM.

 

[kato223]

After docking, press J to remove the LEM.

Well, thanks for the response, but I tried that, and it didn't work. I was able to get my astronaut out of the CSM and on a tethered space-walk, but couldn't figure out how to put him back in. K opens the door, and E will release the astronaut, but E will not put him back in.

Oh well.