Over 400 hours in KSP... and apparently I have never orbited correctly.

I am approaching 450 hours in KSP. I have accomplished many achievments... I have: landed on the moon... once (I never returned because I can't dock a lander to an orbiter... I was going to land again, but my new heavy lifter rocket was super glitchy for some reason. Testing the stages seperate it would have had enough delta V to go there and back... Possible even to minmus.) Made a plane that goes suborbital with only jet engines recreated Apollo 11 Made a rocket to car

Since we're supposed to start vertical and gradually turn to 45° by 10 km altitude, I tend to treat the upper-eastern quadrant of the nav ball as a progress bar correlated to my altitude. If I'm X% of the way to 10 km, then both my prograde vector and my nosecone should be pointing about that far through the turn at that point. This gives me a way to get back on track if my initial tilt off the pad is too strong or too weak; I can switch to stability assist to get my prograde vector where it sho