Just noticed that there was some challenge mission in the scenario folder named "2010 Edition".
Great for a barely adequate space pilot like me
So i used the challenge 1, trying to start in a DG from KSC to ISS with the lowest amount of fuel burned possible.
For me that's a huge challenge, as usually i play with no limited fuel.
So this time to see if my dodgy flying techniques are efficient, i ticked limited fuel in the preferences before launching the challenge.
The perfect plan was to launch while ISS was behind, and nearly arrive in orbit at ISS position.
Of course perfect plan for a sunday pilot like me means usually disastrous failure.
And this time it was again the case.
After launching, i understood i waited too much, no way i would end in orbit at +/- ISS location, ISS moved in front and far, bad bad bad.
Wasted a lot of fuel with my ascending horrible technique
So 4 tons of fuel burned and we're not yet into a circular orbit, that's horrible, at least we can see that the new earth l11/l14 texture is superb, making florida blending in the world very nicely.
Ok, time to try to build our orbit nicely, hoping we will not waste all the fuel.
After we have our roughly circular orbit and got a world loop, let's try our best to align plane with ISS, while looking by the window.
It's night over the Sudan/Ethiopia frontier, we're not great as we are already over 6,4 tons of fuel burned but at least we've got a nice plane alignement.
Only minor adjustment to do as in 4 orbits we should be right on ISS.
We're now fine tuning our interception, that's nice ISS in 3 orbits with minor RCS pushes to do , finally we should not run out of fuel, hopefully.
Giving a look to Australia, very nice view.
Finally, we are near ISS, +/- 100km ahead of our position. time to very badly burn more fuel in my badly done usual approaches.
400kg of fuel burned later, we are in view of ISS, oh joy.
Moving near ISS, going to dock on the other side of it, we're now over 7 tons of fuel wasted in this travel.
26 meters from the docking point, time to check i open the nose cone, in a past mission i completely forgot to open it before trying to dock. Bad memory comes with the age unfortunately.
We're good, we're good ! but that's in the end badly wasted. The NASA will certainly not be happy to see 7024 kg of fuel wasted in mostly bad timing, bad manoeuvring and overall bad pilot