Well that describes me. No anything. Not even a dog since August.
I also cannot sit in front of the computer for hours any more.
What I did was see the orbit was enlarging but turned to the HUD, and looked to long. Then swiched the controls to ROT. When I killed the engine it was too late. Try again later.
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I've been reading the Getting into Orbit thread. The fellow seems a little hostile but the thread is full of good information. One thing I am NOT saying is the the the in atmospheric flight model is wrong. In a flight sim like FS9 you have planes that are dead easy to fly (DC-9) and some aerobatic planes that are touchy-touchy. The NYP Ryan is just a bad design. Full of gas it can be a fight to keep it straight on th runway and whip over the power line and not end up in the trees. In flight it needs constant attention. And if you fly NYP you can stand those 34.5 hours in about 2 hour sessions. It gives you a new aprreciation of what a pilot Lindberg was.
The point is that AC are different; so, who expects the DG to handle like an F-86? The DG is one of the tough ones.
I think the biggest probem (after holding a heading) though is knowing when the DG loose all lift and needs to be switched to ROT control (I was switching to the wrong controls).
Now let me admit a dirty secret. Because I have to read the manual from the screen and have yet to find someone of some place to print the thing, I have to fight the inevitable headache:facepalm: to get through it. So like NYP I have to take it in increments. Even the author's helpful things to read are PDF files. Whoever started this PDF trend (and Kindle and all such nonsense) must have been determined to drive book readers insane.
So todays Question is How about the book: It's Only Rocket Science by Rogers, as backgrolund to all that astrophysics that you say we neophytes to know
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. Especially for someone who studied Late Roman History and Medieval English Literature and whose last Calculus and Trig classes were in HS 40 years ago.
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This is turning into a monologue.
I took off in the dark when the plane of the Earth's orbit and the Moon's matched on the Map projection. I took a slow ruway run and got off at the end (red warning lights). But I maintained control and came to 90 degrees (East). Then I began to climb slowly increasing throttle. She drifted up to 90 degrees and the heading began to change. Paying attention to the Orbit MFD. Too high, I eased he down to 30. Then she began to drop. Trim diddent keep her out of the negative climb: switched to ROT and got her up to ten. The APA began to climb with the heading drifting 110 degrees (ESE).
When I stoped trying to correct the heading the APA wa 239 K. Nuts! Kill the engine! PEA was -4.59 AP was comming up pretty fast. Turned prograde and waited. Fired at AP.
Took forever to get PE out of the negative. When I stopped. APA 1.381 M, PEA 235.4 k, Ecc .0798. Not so good. Obviously, added too much energy.
You know something I just noticed. I think I left the gear down. Have to go check the Quick Save.:rofl: