Dhafeuwst

Yep, that's quite the behavior I seem to have too. Since I now use KER's figures, I can focus more on what is wrong and less on mistiming catastrophies, and it seems to become accurate after some time. I landed my first rover on Minmus tonight thanks to this. It can't steer with its wheels because I failed somewhere assembling the rover to the launcher, but it can bounce thanks to the reaction wheel in a rather controllable manner.

@ Gaarst : thanks for the workaround. That will help me a lot, since I'm new and can't estimate the burn time properly out of experience yet. @ 5thHorseman : how long do you have to burn before the burn time goes up ? I guess if my stagings have very different thrusts, that time might be quite long, depending on the "adjudtment" mechanics of the game. I will pay attention to this next time.

Hello, I have a problem with burn time calculation. I have searched around the forum before posting this, but didn't find any workaround. KSP Version: 1.0.4.861 (WindowsPlayer) Steam on Windows 7 64bits What Happens: Burn time is always incorrect even without staging Mods / Add-Ons: None, then KerbalEngineer - 1.0.18.0 (same problem before and after installing the mod) Steps to Replicate: Create any manoeuver node Result: Estimated burn time is always mere seconds or not estimated at all, even after some burn applied after the last stage release, and even for burns of several minutes. Other Notes/Pictures/Log Files: I have seen somewhere else that you need to burn a little moment before the estimated time is calculated correctly after a stage release. This does not change the figures. Thanks !

Hi everyone, I'm Dhafeuwst, 29, I live in Paris (France). I'm a system engineer, had a few jobs in aeronautics bet never dealt with hard science/design problems like you do in KSP, so the game is for me a manner of getting introduced to some notions. I also love to solve some simple physics problems, to optimize things, and imagine futuristic crafts. The bigger/futuristic/overpowered, the merrier. It seems like KSP was made for me then ! I've purchased the game a couple days ago, played for a few of hours, gotten familiarized with the tutorials and some simple manoeuvers, and successfully launched a probe and a landing mission on Mün. Next I will try to make a few planes and eventually an SSTO spaceplane. I've been lurking this forum for some time now, and learnt tons of useful information. Many thanks to all the tutorials contributors, you're my heroes guys ! Since I have so many questions, I decided to register and say hi. I will post them in the appropriate section. See you there !