Jump to content

dangerhamster

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    296

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by dangerhamster

    What did you do in KSP1 today?

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted

    The scanner and lander arrived at Eve. After a spot of semi frantic craft switching they achieved their working orbits. Control were forced to wait a while to get some information more useful than "it's purple" to pick a likely target area. The detection of an anomaly settled the question and the Deli class lander was plunged into the fiery maelstrom. The lack of detailed information about Eve had prevented any simulations being carried out before the lander was despatched so there followed a period of attempting to direct the lander with crossed fingers.

     

    screenshot71

     

    The majority of the Deli arrived losing only the minor items one of the engines, the atmospheric sampler and one of the landing legs. Notes were taken. It also managed to land a mere 75km from the anomaly, unprecedented accuracy for this program... The loss of one of the legs did not hinder deployment of the Giggity Rover, one of the things that had actually been planned for (for once) and it was soon majestically trundling towards it's objective.

    screenshot74

    Which turned out to be a boring strange and mysterious monolith.

    Back at home the Duna Investigator Probe package was launched tasked with orbiting Duna and returning. No doubt the crew of the Duna Globetrotter will wave as it hurtles past them as they plod their lonely way around Big Red. And will no doubt shake their fists at it when they realise there still isn't any actual support coming their way.

    screenshot73

    Plans are in hand to provide them with a return option. Honest.

    What did you do in KSP1 today?

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted

    The Duna Globetrotter made the 250km jaunt to the first anomaly. Crossing 3 new biomes on the way allowed Jeb to practice his backflip demount technique.

    screenshot67

    After an uneventful trip the crew finally reached the anomaly. Which lead to arguments about their future route being replaced with who it looked most like. Jeb claiming it reminded him most of his uncle Osric...

    screenshot68

    With the resemblage question sorted by Jeb playing the badass card they returned to the route question. Noting that their travels so far had only covered 0.3% of the surface the crew wanted to pick a route that covered all the known anomalies and all the biomes for the least distance travelled. It was decided to head Southeastish for the next anomaly, tick off a couple of biomes and re-evaluate. Informing Mission Control of this they received the encouraging response "don't worry, there no time limit on you". Little did they know this was because no-one had even started designing their return method yet.

    What did you do in KSP1 today?

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted

    The Deliverance 2 with Jeb and 2 nobodies aboard finally reached Duna. Not having to swerve to avoid Ike caused a brain fade episode so it wasn't until orbit had been achieved that the idea of doing a lap of Ike occurred. Luckily the "slightly" overspec DV available allowed a quick excursion and some bonus experience for the crew. A touch and go was briefly contemplated but wussiness won the day.

    Landing was uneventful and even hit the target area.

    screenshot62

    However just before deploying the Globetrotter a slight fly in the ointment occurred. Jeb found himself unable to transfer into the rover or EVA. "No problem" piped the nobody engineer, "I'll just park the rover and lop off that silly parachute..... And this was the point where everybody realised the toolbox fitted to all Globetrotters had somehow been removed. So no screwdriver. Ooops.

    After some soul searching and with a limited snack supply in the capsule mission control cast aside their scruples and lobbed a supply probe into Duna orbit using the forbidden magik of alt+F12. But they did make it more expensive than needed to try and appease everybody's conscience.

    screenshot63

    The nobodies managed to trundle out to the loot crate and pick up the holy screwdriver and once back at the Deliverance it was a simple matter to remove the offending chute and free the Jebmeister.

    screenshot65

    With the problems behind them and safely landed on an alien world with no support and no way to return the crew settled down to systems checks and a little light mining to satisfy a contract. There may or may not have been questions asked to control as to the parentage of whoever certified the Globetrotter as mission ready. Ok, there definitely were. Lessons were learned, blame apportioned let us never speak of it again.

    screenshot66

     

    Piloting Cessna in X-Plane 11?

    in The Lounge

    Posted

    26 minutes ago, YNM said:

    Missed opportunity.

     

     

    For reference, this is real-world flying (well, it's not textbook-perfect execution) :

     

    We were listening in on the Duxford tower whilst a police helicopter was transiting the ATZ. Tower called the helo to warn him of two Me109's overtaking him on his starboard side. Cue much "wish I'd brought my camera" and "are they yellow nosed b******ds".

    What did you do in KSP1 today?

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted

    15 hours ago, HalcyonSon said:

    Is that Mk3 Cargo Bay tweakscaled?  That rover looks much larger than anything I've been able to squeeze in.

    Guilty as charged M'Lud. The rover will fit in a standard Mk3 as standard  but this version has a wider track wheels. The two base modules on the right fit in a standard bay whilst the exploration rover on the left needs the "enhanced" bay.

    screenshot19

    The rovers have been landed with standard bays and rejigged in the field but this version is meant for uncrewed deployment so needed wide track from the get go.

    screenshot20

     

    What did you do in KSP1 today?

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted

    After the arrival  of the Duna scanner a wave of exploration fever set in. Three not at all OP "Big Burd" relay sats were dispatched to Duna, Eve and Dres.

    screenshot53

    On arrival they are planned to drop the 4 baby sats for complete coverage.

    With that flurry of activity over Val found herself fulfilling a bunch of survey contracts near Munbase. Most of which seemed to involve driving past the ride home.....

    screenshot54

    And attention finally turned to putting a Duna Autonomous Vehicular Explorer down on Big Red. Luckily the Duna Scansat had provided complete mapping so simulations could be carried out. Based on the Deliverance 2 vehicle for DAVE and a modified Deliverance 1 for the base modules. Initial simulations look promising.

    screenshot57screenshot58

    Thanks to the base vehicle proving itself on Mun and Minmus only landings have been simulated so far. But a real test flight is planned soon which may turn into a mission. The DAVE is based on the proven Globetrotter and can operate under KSC control with adequate comms coverage. Once down it will be used to scout a suitable base location and then settle down to producing Snacks.

×
×
  • Create New...