I'm curious to hear what people's thoughts are about this. I've seen plenty of people of the years display their Orbiter Experience as "Advanced" or "Expert" and yet ask for help on what I would consider in my opinion to be fairly basic things like going to Mars or lunar transfers. While others I've seen do what I would consider to be much more advanced things like multiple planetary transfers and only say rate their experience as "Intermediate." I'm curious to know what others consider to be Intermediate, Advance, and Expert in skill. For example, here's my thoughts on it:
Beginner: New to Orbiter.
Intermediate:
Beginner: New to Orbiter.
Intermediate:
- Launching into orbit,
- De-orbiting and landing at a non-specific location on an airless planet/moon,
- Powered landing at a specific location on a planet/moon, and
- Single planet transfers (ie, Earth to Mars).
- Launching to rendevous and docking with only minor plane changes required (sub 1 degree),
- Landing at a specific site on an airless planet/moon,
- Unpowered atmospheric landing at a specific location, and
- Single planetary fly-bys (ie, Earth to Jupiter to Saturn).
- Multiply fly-bys (ie, Earth to Venus to Earth to Jupiter to Saturn),
- Aerobraking/aerocapture, and
- Low-thrust trajectories (ie, ion engines).