So, maybe I'm being mildly daft or maybe I'm just skipping over the right tutorial. Somebody please point me in the right direction?
Yesterday, I watched flytandem's Voyager slingshot** tutorial, then set it up myself. No problem there, it even felt like I (mostly) understood what I was doing.
Then I thought "hey, let's see if my setup is worth anything!" So I launched, got into a parking orbit - and realized that I have no clue how to now actually do the eject burn. So I played around a bit. One time I tried using maneuver mode and "copied" all the values for prograde, outward, plane change, and eject date, into the maneuver setup (this is how the Earth to Mars tutorial works)... pointed the nose and did the burn... only to find myself in some completely off-plane silly orbit that wasn't going to get me anywhere except orbiting around the sun. :facepalm:
What I expected to happen, is for TransX to allow this sequence:
Yet no matter what button I play with or which piece in the manual I read, this functionality does not seem to exist.
What good is it if I can plan a wonderfully complex trajectory and never have the means to execute it?
What am I missing?
**The example is for a slingshot, but the same problem exists for normal plans too. Unless it's a purely prograde burn, I don't see how TransX will get me to the next stage as per the plan.
Yesterday, I watched flytandem's Voyager slingshot** tutorial, then set it up myself. No problem there, it even felt like I (mostly) understood what I was doing.
Then I thought "hey, let's see if my setup is worth anything!" So I launched, got into a parking orbit - and realized that I have no clue how to now actually do the eject burn. So I played around a bit. One time I tried using maneuver mode and "copied" all the values for prograde, outward, plane change, and eject date, into the maneuver setup (this is how the Earth to Mars tutorial works)... pointed the nose and did the burn... only to find myself in some completely off-plane silly orbit that wasn't going to get me anywhere except orbiting around the sun. :facepalm:
What I expected to happen, is for TransX to allow this sequence:
- Plan my journey
- Launch using the heading calculated, to the height I planned
- Use the plan I created on the surface to burn as appropriate to eject to the next stage
Yet no matter what button I play with or which piece in the manual I read, this functionality does not seem to exist.
What good is it if I can plan a wonderfully complex trajectory and never have the means to execute it?
What am I missing?
**The example is for a slingshot, but the same problem exists for normal plans too. Unless it's a purely prograde burn, I don't see how TransX will get me to the next stage as per the plan.