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Visiting Laythe After the first flight to the Pole we made a chart and name the islands 6 groups of islands - 2 East: Solomon and Polynesia and 1 Westt: CAribean -1north: North Hebrides, 1 South: South Hébrides and 1 in center: Center Islands there's also north and south pole not visible on pic Red star is the ditching site and red arrow is the flight through north pole to Bone island The crew will test the range and the climb and cruise procedure which are important as the higher we climb, the shrinker is the flight enveloppe. We are limited by low speed and low mach to avoid stall and high speed to avoid overheating and leaving lathe atmosphere Take off 140m/s Taking off heading North to cross the pole and and the heading will turn South after crossing Pitch 45° as the OPT engines give much more thrust with great acceleration. 45° is a good compromise to reach quickly high atmosphere while still accelerating. Through 11000m, pitch is set to 30° to accelerate quickly through sound barrier Through 16000 pitch is 20° At 20000M pitch is 5° to avoid leaving atmosphere and lower vertical speed to capture gently causing altitude at 30 kms Passing North pole heading 84°, thrust 2/3 heading 133° Less than 1 mn to be at heading 171, Thrust 1/3, 1100 kms from destination. 75% de carburant left . Mach 5.3 and1475m/s Slow climb to 33 kms altitude, 560 kms from landing At 156 kms, seeing bone island turning final final 110m/s, low thrust, ground is ascending and so do the vertical speed to avoid hard landing Short final 101m/s, thrust 1/15 On ground Video is following soon

Thank's for reply. I got a satellite in orbit with M700 and narrow band scanner. I had the same problem with the map, but i am going to look gain carefully to the wiki to see exactly how to proceed

Hello KSP 1.3, last Scansat version. I am on Laythe, looking for Ore. I can detect it on the big map, here high concentration 13%, but as soon as i launch the zoom map on the point i detect high concentration, even with" ressource overlay " selected on zoom map, i never see any Ore detection while pointing my mouse on it....What is wrong? Here is the pointer on the big map where we can see 13% where is the waypoint Area G6NFL7 Here is the zoom map with no indication of Ore concentration when pointing the waypoint or anywhere around

Continuation of my SSTO Seaplane adventure on Laythe

My adventure SSTO seaplane to Laythe continues

Now first flight of the Eaglestar to its next refueling spot on Laythe Refuelling before take off Eaglestar is also a "tanker" for Explorer. The explorer tanks contains only 5% of the Eaglestar Liquidfuel 6 big drillers in action Departing north, the thrust is blocked at 75%, Eaglestar being lighter because the satellite has been removed and Explorer is no more on the deck After take off we climb quickly at 310000m, the engines being the same as Explorer engine, we have seen it's the best range flying altitude Flyby wire passing through 11000m We are heading to an Ore spot on the next island we can see on the horizon In fact, approaching the spot I realize that we have still half tank full and i decide to steer to the North Pole where Ore concentration is 7%. You can see on the pics that nuclear engine have been light on, which is not willingly, and i cut them off quickly A new waypoint is set and we turn on it. It's very long and difficult to turn at this speed and altitude. At 90 kms from point we begin descent, Jool facing us In very long final we hardly see the ground At 1é kms from touch down we begin to see the floe Altitude 700m, Jool is going down, blue... We are going to be too long for landing but as we are stabilized and there is flat ground long ahead of us we continue landing Nearly on ground...it's not floe, it looks like kind of toundra... Taxiing back to our waypoint. Ground is very flat, easy to land and taxi Drillers out After tanks are full, we get outside to plant a flag And here is the vid of the flight Here is the plane , but be aware that you need 20 mods... https://kerbalx.com/gilflo/Laythe-EagleStar

Adventure begins, we are flying the Explorer to test its range and discover this big island: Birds island Start and take off Climbing quickly to 20000m to test the range Using Fly by wire with atmospheric autopilot, atmosphere is thin here, wings are short and Explorer can stall quickly, but we have an overpowered engine which help a lot. 19000m and mach>2, trying with 1/3 thrust Not satisfactory, we climb again Mach>3 around 28000m, 1/3 thrust it's much better Jool rising at 29000m 31000m and Mach 4 Thrust less than 1/3, it's the best range. We see well the roundness of the planet Flying back to our landing site, we have burn a lot of fuel and it's really mandatory to climb as quick as possible to 310000m which is the best range altitude!! in descent, Jool rising higher 20000m and 54 kms from landing Final 19 kms, vertical speed 100m/s 2500m, gear down at 6 kms from landing, high angle of descent Still high rate of descent, speed is stabilized, pitch and engine gimball are very effective for quick correction of descent rate Flare Landed Back to the "Tanker", the pilot is bringing the line for refuel Pluging the line on Explorer And filling the tanks Then we unplug and the line retracts itself to the Eaglestar And a small vid of the flight https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD4Xqb ... sHi3bLTQRQ And a small vid of the flight

My game quit if i do this or if i use Wizard installation, even when i suppress the plugin folder.........Maybe some incompability with another mod?

Thank's

Hello Boris Thank's for update. I just wanted to keep my settings for many planes from 1.2.2 through 1.3 and i thought i had only to transfer the designs folder from AA in KSP 1.2.2 in the AA folder in KSP 1.3, but it does not seem to work when i open atmospheric Autopilot. Is there something i am missing?

So far, the bulb engine i use on a reckon satellite in 1.2.2 with the "AtomicAgePatches" is working fine on 1.3, no problem with gimball

I was just wondering why they let to download a non working version (01622) as the version 01604 works perfectly ! At least they could leave the 1604 for download!

Hello Is OPT mod working on 1.3? Maybe same small problem? As i have a lot of OPT planes in my game, i don't want to go to 1.3 if i am not sure it will work....

Explorer launch from SSTO deck during sea run and flight to the mining site 4 StarEagle engines are at reduce thrust 50% Flight controls free and liquid fuel tanks open Around125 m/s, decouplers free both docking ports, 4 main engines are stopped, Explorer engine is at full thrust, SSTO speed brakes are out, if the run has been done speed brakes in. The run can also be done speed brakes out. If the pitch control is pulled, while the Explorer is being decoupled, it takes off immediately from the deck, but it can roll a while without problem before taking off. Pitch action is limited to 70% to avoid tail strike. Taking off from the deck Pass over StarEagle, before heading to the mining site Landing The SSTO being very light (around 400T) , its gears supporting its take off weight (1031T) it can easily land on ground near the mining site. Taking off at reduce thrust, 50% Approach Final Landing You will see on the vid that we made a barrel for the fun with this big bird……launch more interesting than on the screens!!

Ok, so why is it still in download section in the store?

Hello I just downloaded the last 1.2.2 version for mac OS X. Build id is 01622. It does not work, staying blocked at "loading bundle asset definition". My mac is updated at the last version of OS X Sierra. What's happening? The build id 01604 is working.

My trip to Laythe in one go with starEagle, an OPT SSTO Seaplane of 1031T . After the Reckon Sat launch and scan of Lathe, we entered the atmosphere and ditch safely near an oOe mining site, with our explorer aircraft stowed on the deck. Explorer aircraft will be soon launched from theStarEagle deck while on sea and then both aircrafts will land on the mining site. Screens and vids

Vid of atmospheric entry and ditching To follow: launch of the explorer plane stowed on deck and landing of both aircrafts on the ore mining site

ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY AND DITCHING IN LAYTHE SEA I eventually get a good scan for Ore mining and now we are preparing for Entry and ditching after some aerobraking passes. I determine 2 waypoints, one for mining, one for ditching. Eaglestar being south of those points, i let mechjeb calculate and begin nukes braking for Entry Once we are nearly aligned, i take over and brakes in retrograde myself. we can see the waypoints behind us. Eaglestar had difficulties to maintain retrograde, I realized I forgot to use SAS!! We will be too long, no matter! Heating is really not a factor I should really have selected prograde...I switched through Radial + to help braking, no a good idea!! Ramjet engines are lighted to begin a 180° turn to island We are so light that we need only 1/5 thrust to fly Turning left on final to ditch along shoreline Still nearly poor thrust Final at 940m, explorer standing on deck. Flying manually by wire with atmospheric autopilot 245m, Trust 1/10, 95m/s, it flies very well Altitude 88m, null thrust ditching in a few seconds, speed 95, vertical speed 3.5 is perfect, no thrust In water! it slows very quickly, but to reach 0, you need to extend gears We did it! We join Laythe in one go and now we are ready to launch the Explorer plane..

Thank's That's what i have been hopping for, but it i did not happen, whatever is the number of passes done by the scanner. It looks like there's a bug, even with the last version of scansat mod i downloaded for ksp 1.2.2. But i manage to dicover some places in the strips with enough Ore to mine and convert. so i should be able to go on...

Ok thank you, i'll try that

Hello i have a problem on KSP 1.2.2 with Ore scanning on Laythe. Biome scanning was perfect but for Ore here is the screen impossible to have more detection, orbit is polar, color management is the following: green is ore, white is no ore, i just need to set the scaling better because it's too green. But the problem is that the satellite can make as may orbit as i want, there's no more detection. Electricity is ok and the biome scan was perfect...I use M 700 scanner, M4335 scanner and all the scans scanners.... What am i missing ? here is the biome, full detected....

Reckon Sat launched Opening the cargo doors near the periapsis at 750 kms. the goal is to be far enough for inclination change from equatorial to polar, it will be less expensive The satellite is out. I unlock fuel tanks and thrust is set to 100% Engine started to establish a 250 kms periapsis, better for scanning EagleStar aerobraking periapsis has been set to 60 kms to let him orbit while i scan...Starting inclination change Nearly completed Scanners out, solar panels deployed Biome scan completed, Perfect planetary overlay And now here is a problem with ore scan: while is it half done??? I don't understand this planetary overlay, green being great Ore concentration, white being no Ore. I tried all Scansat settings without success..... Can somebody help?? Thank's

NAVIGATION TO JOOL AND LAYTHE The burn to Cool will be long, around 25mn, so i will have begin the burn 12 to 13 mn before the node and that means my circular orbit will be not long circular and when we will not really pass over the node but somewhere around. I use Protractor to determine the day of the burn, then Mechjeb node editor to help to get the best time to burn We start with 75% fuel left and I know that we will be so fast that aerobraking on Jool would be a disaster, as a direct navigation to aerobrake to lathe would be too! We will burn to intercept Jool and set Apoapsis to 22700 kms, Laythe being at 21700. Beginning Burn to Jool As stated, this long burn deviate us At the end I change from Node to Target, hoping it will help...I choose a 250 periapsis on Jool arrival. Cost of 22700 Apoapsis will be another 1042 DV for fuel Jool retroburn One tour around Jool and i can see that the speed at apoapsisi is around 1550 m/s, perfect for Laythe interception. I use again node editor to find the best way to intercept Now that we are on our way to the periapsis i choose a 43.5km periapsis, not to low in atmosphere as we are going to accelerate all the way down.. Ready for lathe aerobraking At 45.5 kms, it's very hot and speed is still Mach 10!! Close up approching 43.5, still very hot, but the orbit is going to close, that's good! Woow..........Eaglestar is flipping .....we turn and turn, but it's ok , no burn, no braking Now we are establish on our orbit. We still need to burn to set apoapsis at 750 kms, point were we will release ou reckon satellite, then plan is to stabilize to a circular 70 kms orbit by aerobraking and burning. Fuel left is 20%, i thing it's enough for atmospheric entry, flight near an Ore place and ditching.. See you soon!

My OPT seaplane, after a lot of work, is airborne to Laythe