sturmovik

I've been playing the game for a few weeks and thought I'd branch into orbital docking. Having considerable trouble with the tutorial, though. I do fine until I'm within 100 meters or so of the target, that's all regular flight. However, I can't for the life of me control my ship's orientation close to the target. I'm making small and deliberate RCS burns, nothing that should be difficult to control, but no matter what I do I just seem to end up orbiting around the target ship at 50-200 meters. I also can't even manage to cancel my velocity and come to a stop relative to the target ( meaning I can go from closing on the target to opening from it without my relative speed dropping below, say 3.5 mps). Is real-life docking easier than the tutorial, because I can switch into the target ship and lock it to the docking ship? I'm fully aware that this is about the hardest thing in the game, and I'm just looking for answers/advice to what I expect is, in fact, my own errors causing this. Thank you all!

Yes, I was afraid it would require actual skill. If Neil Armstrong figured it out, I can too. Thanks for the info! EDIT: Just managed a near-actual landing! (and considering I'm using a deep-space design that doesn't even have an actual lander, I'm counting it) Thanks again!

Yes, I was afraid it would require actual skill. If Neil Armstrong figured it out, I can too. Thanks for the info!

I'm a real noob here, but here goes: I'm trying to do my first Mun landing, but when I set the Mun as a target I then cannot use the RCS Target function to maintain stability on descent (as done in Mun tutorial #2). Is this normal or a bug? If normal, is there any way around it to still use that function? If a bug, how do I report/correct it (already restarted game). Thanks everyone!