Flight Question Need help planning an Earth-Mars transfer. (tool: IMFD)

[Dasm]

So I was watching this video of David Courtney and Dimitris:

and using this web table as a reference: http://clowder.net/hop/railroad/EMa.htm and I just couldn't get the total Dv required to a number that seems acceptable, plus my orbits seemed to pass Mars orbit at Sun AP: https://i.imgur.com/B7DKgUS.png Also, my MFD is has different output for date, but I'm guessing that may be due to a different version of IMFD. So, do any of you have any ideas as to what I may be doing wrong and how to correct it?

 

[Marijn]

IMFD 5.7 is the lastest version: http://users.kymp.net/p501474a/Orbiter/Orbiter.html

You can set the mission timer from GET to MJD by pressing MNU and MOD (Configuration). You can set MJD as the default by changing this in the IMFD config file.

Your screenshot shows Ov=2.869K. Isn't that very close to the 2.9448 km/sec value in the table? It looks right to me. When you actually do the orbit-eject, you will find that the dv for that move will be a bit different.

iV is the dv you will need to insert into an orbit around Mars if you would use engines. But you probably will do an aerobrake manouver for that so you'll only need enough dV to do a hover landing.

 

[Ripley]

...You can set MJD as the default by changing this in the IMFD config file...

While doing this I saw the line:

// Configuration file for BaseSyncMFD, I-MFD, [b]AeroBrakeMFD[/b]

I mean: AeroBrakeMFD? Colours maybe?

 

[Marijn]

I mean: AeroBrakeMFD? Colours maybe?

No idea. BaseSync has it's own config file in the Config/MFD folder so that doesn't make sense either. I think it's an old line which should have been removed a long time ago.