I was thinking maybe we could all get some ideas for Orbiter Certification.
Sort of like each vehicle would have a list of things to do, like ground checkout, atmosphere flight, gliding, hovering, things like that, the basics.
Then we'd move on to the advanced ops like sub-orbital (hay! whatever happened to that MFD?? that was a cool one) hops, orbits, polar, equatorial, retrograde, trips to the moon, docking, atmosphere skips and hops, LEO operations, bits of station building, that type of deal.
Then for the master captain thing we'd have trips to the planets and slingshots and emergency ops, aerobraking, Hohmann transfer orbits. Sun polar, Lagrange point operations, comet rendevous, other "deep-space" activities.
I don't want this to be a VSA or anything, but more rather like a simple list of things by which to measure your competency. Like getting certified for different aircraft types and ratings as your career progresses (in real life).
A checklist of your own personal progress. Some means by which to measure and record your proficiency. I mean like, can you complete these procedures? Can you get to the moon, plane-change, and come back to earth? There'd only be minimal guidelines, because, this each flight will be different and in
See, most of us can hover, fly around KSC, and get into orbit and back, for example. But can we all use TransX and IMFD correctly?
Is anyone interested in helping me put together a list of guidelines and tasks involved? This would simply be a text file. Nothing more. There is no score to keep, or VSA to report to any thing like that. Nobody checks it or anything. You print it out, and as you learn the procedure and complete the "Assignment" you check it off. When you've got the whole list checked, you are an accomplished pilot. Simple as that. Like a final exam after reading the orbiter manual and doing the (lack of) examples. In fact, this list *would* be the examples.
A way to ensure you've got your basic skills down pat.
I might think I'm a hotshot pilot in orbiter, but can I do all the things on a yet-to-be-compiled list? How do we know who is a good pilot and who needs practice?
Something to help you verify you read the manual and understand the material and can execute it. Remember I don't want a VSA out of this. I hate those things. And if you think this is dumb then say so! I won't fill the msg board with it then.
Sort of like each vehicle would have a list of things to do, like ground checkout, atmosphere flight, gliding, hovering, things like that, the basics.
Then we'd move on to the advanced ops like sub-orbital (hay! whatever happened to that MFD?? that was a cool one) hops, orbits, polar, equatorial, retrograde, trips to the moon, docking, atmosphere skips and hops, LEO operations, bits of station building, that type of deal.
Then for the master captain thing we'd have trips to the planets and slingshots and emergency ops, aerobraking, Hohmann transfer orbits. Sun polar, Lagrange point operations, comet rendevous, other "deep-space" activities.
I don't want this to be a VSA or anything, but more rather like a simple list of things by which to measure your competency. Like getting certified for different aircraft types and ratings as your career progresses (in real life).
A checklist of your own personal progress. Some means by which to measure and record your proficiency. I mean like, can you complete these procedures? Can you get to the moon, plane-change, and come back to earth? There'd only be minimal guidelines, because, this each flight will be different and in
See, most of us can hover, fly around KSC, and get into orbit and back, for example. But can we all use TransX and IMFD correctly?
Is anyone interested in helping me put together a list of guidelines and tasks involved? This would simply be a text file. Nothing more. There is no score to keep, or VSA to report to any thing like that. Nobody checks it or anything. You print it out, and as you learn the procedure and complete the "Assignment" you check it off. When you've got the whole list checked, you are an accomplished pilot. Simple as that. Like a final exam after reading the orbiter manual and doing the (lack of) examples. In fact, this list *would* be the examples.
A way to ensure you've got your basic skills down pat.
I might think I'm a hotshot pilot in orbiter, but can I do all the things on a yet-to-be-compiled list? How do we know who is a good pilot and who needs practice?
Something to help you verify you read the manual and understand the material and can execute it. Remember I don't want a VSA out of this. I hate those things. And if you think this is dumb then say so! I won't fill the msg board with it then.
