Oilfour

You could always, oh I don't know, maybe fly without an autopilot? Burn retrograde til you have no horizontal velocity left. During your fall, burn down to brake.

I don't see any button with a protractor on it in the lower left

I don't get it. How does it start mapping? I downloaded the dropbox version because kerbal.net 404'd. I put the files into my KSP folder, opened the game, slapped a dish on my satellite and put it into orbit. How do I actually start mapping? Right-clicking the dish doesn't do anything and I don't see any buttons.

So I downloaded the .zip and moved the files in it to /parts/ and /plugins/. Now when I open KSP the parts show up in the hangar, but I can only use a few of them - for the rest it says "not available in this version of KSP." What am I doing wrong? I'm playing a vanilla (apart from this failed install of MechJeb) version of 0.16.