Emin

Thanks for all the answers and support! The number of replies exceeded my expectations by far - a very supportive community I find myself in. Now about the progress: - we did make it into orbit on another profile, one I play with my daughter, just using a shorter, stubbier rocket, mimicking the Vostok we built the first stage as 4 liquid fuel boosters on the sides, second as a single liquid fuel rocket at the core and third as the capsule with the smaller liquid fuel engine and just two fuel tanks, - I suspected the fins/winglets I have did not have control surfaces, so on that rocket did include just one set of 4 at the bottom, - I didn't realize the LV-T30 has no gimbal, I assumed all liquid fuel engines in the program do have this - that would explain why my rocket was so hard to control.

Discovered that I could turn the rocket on the launchpad with Q/E keys and thus move the orange "bird" on the navball so that it would indicate 90degs (and so would the numerical heading say). Hoped that would help, but no.

In all tutorials I have seen it says that in order to get to orbit I shall use the "D" key (yaw control) to turn at 10 km so that the rocket's angle is 45 deg and heading is East. The thing is it doesn't work that way, first when I use "D" the rocket almost doesn't react, when I start pressing it continuously at ~5kms all I get at 10 kms is about 6-8 degrees and never heading East, always North. I have to play with roll and pitch in order to get more or less right heading, but fighting with it I either overshoot the orbit (apiapsis ~100kms) or undershoot it (once it was at ~40 kms). What is most mysterious is why the rocket doesn't react to controls. It is almost as if the only thing controlling it was the wheels in the pod, whereas I expected the winglets to have flaps etc. - do they? Can't record a film showing my tries (Corel's Video Studio Pro X9 again crashing on me - don't buy that crap), but here is the pic of my rocket.