Which Orbiter rank are you?

What Orbiter rank are you?

  • Orbin00b-can't even get a manual orbit

    Votes: 3 3.2%
  • Orbiteer-you are getting the hang of it

    Votes: 19 20.0%
  • Orbinaut-you can do reentries, reundevous, and interplanetry travel

    Votes: 53 55.8%
  • Addon Developer-you program and make addons for Orbiter

    Votes: 20 21.1%

  • Total voters
    95
Orbinaut.

I can do lunar free return, launch, geosynchronous orbits, reentry, landing. I can go to Venus and Mars, aerobrake, land and return to Earth.

But I am still stumped by the mission planning needed to do interplanetary missions with gravity assists, aka slingshots.

I am learning to code in C++, but don't expect addons yet.
 
Orbiteer, But am working on the latter rank. I can do docking and on once in a while the moon with the crude Transfer mfd. But hope to make a first by reaching jupiter when I learn TransX. I've been using Orbiter for over half a year so far.
 
I can do everything listed for Orbinaut, however, I still can't transfer to Lagrange points, use slingshots, or launch to a specific spot in GEO. I have even forgotten the altitude needed for GEO now...since I never go there...:(

I've also experimented with addon development, though I've not released anything. I can write and debug code, but most of the math needed for animations and systems simulation eludes me
 
I guess I would be an Orbinaut because I have done all those things successfully at least once. However, my ability to routinely repeat them successfully was, fortunately, not asked about.:)
 
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