Hi all, I'm new here. I've tried Orbiter a few years ago (only a little) and now gave it another go. I finally succeeded in getting into orbit with the DG and sync planes, orbit as well as dock with the ISS 
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Now I've got a couple of questions regarding Project Mercury (I tried to find more documentation on it, but so far I have only found the 3 pdfs in the project's doc folder plus the changelog).
Ok, so here it goes:
1) To initiate the launch, I press L at the same moment as I flip the "Launch Ready" switch, right, or is L enough? The changelog also mentions to press P to control the autopilot, but how does that tie into the launch sequence?
2) Mercury doesn't seem to like time acceleration (pressing T before reaching orbit seems to be disastrous). When in orbit, under time acceleration, the capsule begins to oscillate wildly, and the AP burns through it's fuel in no time trying to compensate. My solution is to switch to FBW or manual and let coast before going to time accel. Is this the correct way or am I missing something?
3) When flying MA-6, I follow the automatic program with the pre-set RETRO time (4hrs 32 minutes or so, correct automatic retro and re-entry attitudes verified). However, my capsule comes down off the coast of Brazil, and it's already dark, whereas historically, I believe it should come down near Puerto Rico, and still in daylight? What's going wrong here? Should I manually engage the RETRO sequence 30 secs before the timer so that the engines fire at RETRO time?
4) I have installed the 061203 update (Mercury 5b?) mentioned here http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=7207 to fix the flat chutes, but with the update, resuming a quicksave or session in progress, orbiter crashes to desktop. Any ideas?
5) This question is not directly Mercury related. I have Earth lvl 10 textures and Earth 1962 installed. All around Florida, the water texture is black. Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks all,
Dobby
.Now I've got a couple of questions regarding Project Mercury (I tried to find more documentation on it, but so far I have only found the 3 pdfs in the project's doc folder plus the changelog).
Ok, so here it goes:
1) To initiate the launch, I press L at the same moment as I flip the "Launch Ready" switch, right, or is L enough? The changelog also mentions to press P to control the autopilot, but how does that tie into the launch sequence?
2) Mercury doesn't seem to like time acceleration (pressing T before reaching orbit seems to be disastrous
). When in orbit, under time acceleration, the capsule begins to oscillate wildly, and the AP burns through it's fuel in no time trying to compensate. My solution is to switch to FBW or manual and let coast before going to time accel. Is this the correct way or am I missing something?3) When flying MA-6, I follow the automatic program with the pre-set RETRO time (4hrs 32 minutes or so, correct automatic retro and re-entry attitudes verified). However, my capsule comes down off the coast of Brazil, and it's already dark, whereas historically, I believe it should come down near Puerto Rico, and still in daylight? What's going wrong here? Should I manually engage the RETRO sequence 30 secs before the timer so that the engines fire at RETRO time?
4) I have installed the 061203 update (Mercury 5b?) mentioned here http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=7207 to fix the flat chutes, but with the update, resuming a quicksave or session in progress, orbiter crashes to desktop. Any ideas?
5) This question is not directly Mercury related. I have Earth lvl 10 textures and Earth 1962 installed. All around Florida, the water texture is black. Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks all,
Dobby
