The sim is so much fun that i too like reading the debrief of other people flights, often watching some of the video from Orbiter, there are some very good ones there like this really well done one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrbvM5HuQREAnyways, i attempted a flight from Cape Canaveral to orbit, then to Wideawake Island, but this time instead of flying in a random direction after taking off from KCS, orienting myself to Wideawake Island.
This way i would have much less corrections to do when using the Base Sync MFD and get an orbit aligned with , sparring also lot of fuel.
As my first orbit went already over Widewake, i decided to synchronise my 2nd orbit with the island base.
This way it would allow me to actually get a re-entry during the day.
I managed to save much more fuel than i thought, so i dropped a lot in orbit until i had around 30% left, getting light enough to not fall like a brick.
And finally the re-entry, i spare you the first part of it and the atmosphere contact, as my previous post / flight dealt with this, so let's go to Wideawake approach
Visual contact with the island, we're not there yet, but we're approaching rather quickly enough
A better view, we can see the base and airfield from there
There as i was watching the altitude and airspeed dropping, i became a bit anxious, i was not sure i was really doing good and was fearing that i was too slow and falling too quickly.
After flight, i think the XR-2 was flying good there, i just overreacted.
So i relaunched the main engine instead of continuing my gliding approach
Flying over
Ascension island, we can see the Wideawake international buildings and their airfields, it's there i think i realised i was not doing bad and could have continued with gliding.
And good i had kept 30% fuel left for cases like these.
After getting some distance, and manoeuvring, i align my XR-2 with the airfield, i plan to land on the one the most to the right of the base.
I don't need my main engine there, i'll be gliding for this final approach.
Nearly forgot to pull the gear down, but we're ready to land on this one, correct alignment and good airspeed despite we have shtudown the main engine previously.
And we're landed and everyone is alive ! ... wait a minute what's going on !
Now my friends learn the lesson of the day, when you're landing a space vessel on the ground, avoid taking screenshot without pausing the action first.
While taking a few screenshots of the approach just before the land contact, i accidentally forgot to press my fly up key to balance my ship and after noticing my mistake quickly by pressing the fly up key like crazy.
Managed to re-align at the last second, but hit the ground a little too hard for the gear supports, at least everyone survived, it's just the gears that didn't
A "nearly" safe landing, thank you for flying with us, we hope you'll use again our company, we promise we'll not be taking screenshots at the bad time in future flight
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