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But try intercepting one of the Jool's moons and. I need to burn radial in/out and infer which side the ship is on from what periapsis is doing.Īll that is not a big deal if you are going to the Mun. I can change the focus to the real planet to have a look around, but not the ghostly image of the planet where I'm going to make the intercept, so have no idea what is going on there. situation I would not be in if I could see which side of the planet I'm approaching wellll before I get close, which I can't. Maneuver node won't let me pull the trajectory through the planetary body and out the other side.

Have to do it in two burns, or eyeball it. In same situation as above, unable to burn radial in or radial out to change orbital insertion from prograde to retrograde or vice versa. Where is my blue dot and what is all that dancing and jiggling? Placing a maneuver node onto the pale blue trajectory after entering planetary sphere of influence outside of Kerbin. Probably needs a bit of tweaking and more different parts. Was able to get one eventually round and back to land on the runway but had too much AOA on touchdown, and ripped the engine off the back. I didn't fly long enough to deal with changing COG due to fuel loss, but the lift was really sensitive to speed. I really need my cockpit HUD view to control. When I had something relatively balanced, it was still hard to control because I hate trying to fly using a chase view. Something still seems wrong with the COG in the planes because the COG is ahead of the rear landing gear and on the runway the tail is on the ground and nose in the air. I tried placing the wing lower and then tilting wing up (so it was still level), but realized when testing that because the engine is above the wing it was causing a top moment (is that what it is called) that was pushing the nose down. Nose gear was on the fuselage and back gear was on wings, but because the wings were higher up the back engine would hit the ground. My main problem with design had to do with the landing gear. Turning off the cockpit torque really helped out. I gave it a shot again earlier in the afternoon with my plane and It went quite a bit better.

Without a balancer, if you have multiple fuel tanks they will drain from the front, and your COM will shift aft and the plane will (probably) go unstable. Specifically, the fuel tanks need to be centered over the COM or the COM will move as fuel depletes.

#KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM CONTROLS LOCKED MOD#

I recommend the TAC fuel balancer mod - it helps a lot to keep the COM from shifting aft and destabilizing the plane BUT you still have to design the plane correctly. Third, fuel balance is carefully controlled on real aircraft. Additionally, the engines are canted upward to help to help with the pitching moment - which can be done in KSP but is really, really hard to do right. In KSP, the fuel is in the fuselage and thus the COM is basically centered in the fuselage (up down, not fore-aft). This is especially true of commercial aircraft, and as a result the COM is low in the fuselage. Second, in most aircraft the fuel is in the wings. On fighter aircraft, engines at the 'rear' are really inside the fuselage while in KSP they will be at the back end and drag the COM back, a lot. As a result, unless you 'pod' the engines they will drag the weight back. There's a major hitch with trying to build a 'traditional' airplane in KSP, even with FAR.įirst off, engines in KSP are heavy.

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