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Hi again, I'm coming up on the Apollo 9 first SPS burn. Flight plan calls for a P52 Opt 1 alignment, followed by an alignment check. I'm not understanding something here.... I've copied the PAD, uplinked the target load and run P30. Then the PAMFD Checklist has us start P40 which displays F50...

Under the category "minutiae": On CSM Panel 252, should the switch be labeled "STOAGE" or "STOWAGE"? Did they leave the "W" out to save weight? :unsure:

Haha! I don't fully understand the RTCC. It's a great tool, but every time I think I've got it figured out I come upon a maneuver that throws me for a curve. rcflyinghokie, Indy91, Miriam or some other knowledgeable person has been there to bail me out. But about 95% of the info they passed on...

Hi, I'd like to run the Apollo 9 simulation and except for a copy of the flight plan I'm having trouble finding the checklists etc that they used. Can anyone help with that? Thanks

Hello, A few questions about the Apollo 12 TEI. When I went to the RTCC to plan this, I tried to follow the same procedure with the RTCC that I had used on other flights. In those cases I used TAR>ENT>AST, then for TYP I used Lunar Search, SIT was EOM, and then entered the flight plan times...

Just that when I did the original calculations the TPI was at 144:35. After CSI and CDH the TPI burn ended up at 144:52, so actually about 17 minutes later than planned. And so I hit the braking gates and started station keeping a little later than planned, but it all worked out.

Ha! Well, I'm the guy that was originally ok with +15105. And until the coffee kicked in and I put on my readers, I thought the Data Book did say +00000. And since you've guided me through all six of these landings and answered hundreds of my questions, I guess we can let one tiny typo slide...

I ran through the ascent again and when running P32 got the 00605 alarm again. But looking closer at the LM Data Card Book you sent me I noticed they had N55 R1 as +00001. So I tried that, and that gave me a solution that looks ok, I haven't burned yet but it looks like I'm in the ballpark...

Yep, I miss-typed I guess, sorry for the confusion. I must be suffering from AOS (Acronym Overload Syndrome). So I've made some progress, I've moved from the 00604 alarm to a 00605 alarm "No solution in 15 tries". I've been re-doing this so many time that I'm probably working from a bad save...

The first time N11 shows up, it's all zeros. If I hit PRO it seems to populate with the apoapsis time. I've been manually entering my calculated CSI TIG. N55 is already populated, R1 +15105, R2 -00310, R3 +00000. I'm not sure what these numbers mean! The LM Handbook refers to them as N and E...

Hello. I need some help with the RTCC procedures for the Apollo 12 ascent. This is my first attempt using the RTCC for calculating CSI, CDH etc. I tried to figure this out on my own, but I must be doing something wrong. I've been able to figure out the TPI time (144:35:16 for me), and then...

OK, P22 went well, thanks for the help. New Question: I started to do my ascent planning. One of the first things I wanted to determine was the sunrise time. I want to get my sunrise time from MSK 1502. While in the CSM I went through the MPT initialization, and what I'm seeing is the CURRENT...

I did these flights in reverse order, but I find it interesting how the software seems to have improved through the flights. I used the built-in MCC feature for Apollo 11 so that flight was a lot of just inputting numbers, but then you helped me with the RTCC through 15 through 17 and then 14...

OK! That works for me. A few more steps than entering a number on a spreadsheet, but I only need to do it once or twice. Thanks!

No, no prompts. Playing around with it I see it thinks there's some typo or other error. I've probably dug up some inferior/faulty EXCEL program, if it works for you it's got to be something I'm doing wrong. I'll look around and find something else to open the spreadsheet with.

So I've got EXCEL opened up. I've found the row where ATIGINC is (201). Column C looks like where I would enter the time in seconds (using your example I inputted 432000) but I'm not seeing anything that looks like 5114 and 27000. The spreadsheet generates values in columns E, F, and G but...

Thanks. Generating the tracking PAD is easy, now all I need to do is teach myself how to use an EXCEL spreadsheet. Just converting the seconds from decimal to octal gives me a number I can't enter into the LGC, thus the need to generate the double precision time? (You're thinking "How does...

Hi, Running through the Apollo 12 post-landing procedures, and not sure what to do with P22. Seems like I'm supposed to enter some octal time numbers that are supplied by mission control. I tried using the numbers that were used on the real flight (from the Lunar Surface Journal), but I'm not...

OK, safely down after another steep learning curve. Incorporating the landing radar is a little different on 12 than it was on the last few flights I did (I did these non-sequentially: 11, skip to 15, 16, 17, 14, then 12), there's a few PROs after V57E that I missed the first time down and that...

Well dang. After reading your post I re-did the landing site REFSMMAT and P52 opt1, pitch and roll stayed the same but the yaw changed by about 21 degrees. Just so I understand, was this due to an error on my part when I did the first REFSMMAT, or some quirk in the RTCC? Nothing that some...