Curveball Anders

yup

I'm actually not looking forward to any of those. And hope that if they are added they can be turned off.

For the record I'm not ever going to play KSP online. As a matter of fact I run my KSP in a non-networked virual shard (CKAN is run outside of it).

That was a little bit too much information...

You can use the KAL to limit blade pitch within a usable range and the assign the play position to a control (like UP/DN or such). Allowing for easier control.

Maybe that's why he was recruited?

But would you tell us?

My 1.8.1 at Y2D150 with 14 KAC alarms reaching 158d further on. I dislike warping too much, I rather set an alarm and do something else to pass time.

KSP2 == 10 beers at my local pub. I'm quite sure that I'll get more fun over longer time than those beers.

I've had it (and updated) for over 15 years

I've actually used this to drop a minimal science container thingy back to Kerbin without landing the main craft. It's a bit tricky since have have to release the drop pod inside the atmosphere and follow it down without letting the main craft crashing or getting deleted.

Exactly, it's was a modelling bug that was promoted to feature by it's popularity.

When testing a new lander/rover I usually build the payload and then a best guess version of the lander. Then using the cheat menu to set lowest possible orbit and the body in question and try to land (most using MJ in my case). If it doesn't work I revert to VAB, tweak and repeat. Once it works as a want (or close to it) I build the launch/transport parts. To minimize the risk of messing up my career save I either make a copy of it and use that or use my "JPL" sandbox save, copying the craft to my career save when good enough.

I've ignored the cyclic totally and cheats by using a reaction wheel. I've got the rotors and blades counter rotating in diagonal pairs so the torque cancels out. I tried using pitch to control lift but it becomes very hard to control with any precision, it's easier but laggier by using the rpm limiter. My main problem is the control the horizontal motion but it might be that I'm just stupid and not reading the visual ques correctly. So I can lift off, I can fly in any direction at quite a good lick but it's very hard to hover, and thereby very hard to land without falling over

I would like free beer, but is about as likely to get it.

Ok, I managed to get a Quad to land and work (-ish) at Duna. But it was 100% trail and error (mainly error). Getting the blade angle was by adding the angle to a control, adding the aero overlay and testing. I think that the idea is to control the lift by assigning the RPM limiters to a control, which works, but a complete nightmare. So Ye Gurus how know this stuff, how is it done properly?

A late update, it hits about 8k on Duna, and flies well as long as the Sun is up. But it's an absolute nightmare to land, balancing descent speed and have the b..y thing stay still horizontally ...

On bodies without atmosphere I usually go with sky cranes, with BG I sometimes fold stuff to allow a smaller aero shielding during launch. (Remember to enable lock when using hinges...) On bodies with atmosphere I add a heat shield and retro rockets.

The issue here is most likely that Dos/Win uses cr/lf as end of line and Ux*x uses lf in textfiles (including scripts) . Which is what to dos2unix (and unix2dos) corrects.

MJ, 42 Degrees limit Q at 24k

Every flag I leave behind has the inscription "<name of planter> wuz 'ere"

I have to state that I feel that the balance between reality and fun is just right-

I reject both statements. There can't be too much KSP, it would be like talking about military intelligence... It's simply contradiction in terms.

Looks more like a hat.

At last, after many trails and failures. A quadcopter that can be landed and fly on Duna. In reference to Dragonfly (I want to point out that the atmosphere on Titan is a bit denser than bloody Duna) ...