Was the lunar landing automated or manually?:huh:
In AMSO the lunar landing is automated, is that realistic?
How do you do an automatic landing? I have to learn to do everything manually in the game because I don't know how to turn on the autopilot for anything. I can do the space shuttle launch manually, but I still don't know how to do an automatic one other than the playback video. I would LOVE to know how to do an autopilot DGIV launch and AMSO LEM landing. Thanks if you can help me.
Yeah, I just decided to do that, although most of it doesn't make sense. I love space travel and all that stuff, but I don't understand squat about all the technical terms used in these Docs.
I did it! Thank you SO much! I landed on the moon with Apollo 11 and it was probably the simplest thing I've ever done. Press "K", press >, then press ^, and the sim did the rest for me.
I just successfully landed Apollo 12 on the moon, ascended, and docked back with the CSM! The autopilot of course did most of the ascent, but once the LM and CSM got within a couple hundred feet from each other, I took control and manually docked. I don't know if the sim would automatically do that, so I did it manually.
I've got another question about the real LM.
Was the automatic landing rough, so you must do the rest or was it accurate to a meter like in AMSO?
The AGC didn't have function calls into Orbiter to get its precise location . It would have landed within a hundred meters or so of the planned location even if the humans didn't touch the controls, but would be lucky to get within a meter with the limited accuracy of the IMU... and would quite possibly have dropped the LEM on top of a boulder or the edge of a crater.
I've got another question about the real LM.
Was the automatic landing rough, so you must do the rest or was it accurate to a meter like in AMSO?
Yes, thats right.But that didn't answer my question.I want to know if it's realistic in AMSO that I just switch the autopilot on and don't must do anything for the landing?
More important than the horizontal accuracy, is the vertical accuracy to ensure the landing is not "rough". This was enhanced by the lunar landing radar (I can't find any data on its accuracy, though):Actually, it was pretty accurate, I think less than 30m accurate + the astronauts had the possibility to define the landing point more accurate before landing, in case the target was too rough.
More important than the horizontal accuracy, is the vertical accuracy to ensure the landing is not "rough". This was enhanced by the lunar landing radar (I can't find any data on its accuracy, though):
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LMRadars.html