Lawgeenoo
New member
Hello, I'm new here.
I've been playing Orbiter on/off for some time now. I'm no professional by any means, but I pretty much know my way around, except for one thing, which drives me nuts.
I can't get the RInc down to 0, using the default Atlantis. My heading is ok ~138 or ~43 degrees for an ISS rendezvous. It goes down ok, but it always stops at a relatively small value. Best i got was around ~1.7 degrees, which is way too much. The required plane alignment would use more than half of the OMS's engines fuel.
Really don't understand why this happens. When i have the smallest RInc, i tried to yaw the shuttle towards Normal or Antinormal, but it doesn't work. It drops a bit, then comes back up, doesn't matter if it's pointed for AN or DN.(this being while i still use the main engines) I'm always launching when the ISS will pass over KSC.
However, i never had a problem like this using the XR2.
Maybe you could shed some light, please? And, English is not my first language, sorry if it's bad.
Thanks.
I've been playing Orbiter on/off for some time now. I'm no professional by any means, but I pretty much know my way around, except for one thing, which drives me nuts.
I can't get the RInc down to 0, using the default Atlantis. My heading is ok ~138 or ~43 degrees for an ISS rendezvous. It goes down ok, but it always stops at a relatively small value. Best i got was around ~1.7 degrees, which is way too much. The required plane alignment would use more than half of the OMS's engines fuel.
Really don't understand why this happens. When i have the smallest RInc, i tried to yaw the shuttle towards Normal or Antinormal, but it doesn't work. It drops a bit, then comes back up, doesn't matter if it's pointed for AN or DN.(this being while i still use the main engines) I'm always launching when the ISS will pass over KSC.
However, i never had a problem like this using the XR2.
Maybe you could shed some light, please? And, English is not my first language, sorry if it's bad.
Thanks.