miklkit

Took out my 2nd largest spaceplane (482 tons) to see how it does. Flies fine so sent it to the Mun to test the large rover it carries. Turned out the rover would not decouple............. All dressed up and nowhere to go. So back it went and it turns out it flies way better than it looks.

Go for it. Doing that opens up all kinds of possibilities.

No one else? Ok, how about landing on Moho with almost no fuel? Had to deliver a rover there to visit the Mohole.

The front brake being too strong is a brake balancing thing and it is SOP to balance that out. That other stuff is all Chinese to me. I am surprised that no one else seems to care about this. Recently watched a Matt Lowne video where he set the brakes too high and then apologized when the spaceplane stopped almost in its own length.

The last time I experienced a forum running this badly it was being subjected to long term DDOS attacks that lasted for months at a time. It is always a surprise to me when I am allowed in.

So, no one else has problems with brakes being either too weak of too strong?

Ah! Allowed back in today!

Got on again today and it is wobbly but functional. So far so good.

Are there any mods for airplane landing brakes? I ask because the brakes are not linear. They default to 50% which is never good enough for me. I can slide them up to 95% and they get stronger smoothly and predictably but never strong enough, but at 100% and above they are suddenly too strong and the planes spin out and can crash as they stop way too fast. It would be nice if the brakes were linear at higher settings.

Just got back on for the first time since my last post. THREE DAYS. Is this the new normal? The last time I got on here it only stayed stable for a minute or so, then died. Could not even read any other posts.

OMG!!!! I got on here two days in a row! Now to see if it is stable enough to read other posts.

The forums have been down for me for days at a time. I have only been able to get on 2-3 times a week and then only for a minute or two. Is it like this for everyone?

I have found that Duna "needs" a less stable plane than Kerbin does, so moved the weight back a little on that one. Also it is pretty well balanced and the COM does not move much. I have tried them with the COM forward and back like that one and COM forward lets them fly better but they still crash. Here is the last one I built and tried on Kerbin. It has the COM forward as well as parachutes.

Oh. No screenies of that as I'm pretty busy trying to regain control. In general terms they refuse to go straight. The one above refused to fly straight once it got down into the atmosphere, but would fly sideways just fine.

This morning I just got a black screen instead of this forum. Some. I can get more of them in the SPH. This is the MK3 with the OPT wings. And at Duna.