Is this what a launch will look like with the new Aerodynamics in 1.0?

[djnattyd]

I use FAR so I always do my gravity turn at either 100m/s or 1KM, whichever comes first (usually 1KM since my launch vehicles are woefully underpowered)

[metl]

I like the 10k turn. It's simple and effective, even if not efficient.

[Kerbart]

What I hope to see is that a rocket gets shredded to pieces if, at 10km and Mach 1, you try to go to an instant 45° angle (at which point it spontaneously will become 90° I guess)

[dryer_lint]

Y'know, now that the OP has mentioned it, I suppose having to start your gravity turn really early could be really fun! Climbing up and doing nothing for a while is really unrealistic and quite the boring gameplay experience.

This.

I don't have enough patience to do long launches and this is half the reason, right here

[Sandworm]

Given the movement of the stars in the OP... no. No stock KSP launch will ever take that long. Kerbin is so tiny that any gravity turn taking more than a minute or two is more hovercraft than rocket.

And no explosions? No flaming boosters being thrown all over the place? No wobbling engine nozzle? Launching a rocket in stock isn't SpaceX. It's Wile E Coyote.

[Caelib]

Given the movement of the stars in the OP... no. No stock KSP launch will ever take that long. Kerbin is so tiny that any gravity turn taking more than a minute or two is more hovercraft than rocket.

Earth takes about 8 minutes and Kerbin takes almost 4? Sure, it's half ... but the general concept is the same.

[AmpsterMan]

My pitch over maneuver is always dependant on the TWR of my craft; the bigger it is,the sooner i pitch

[michaelsteele3]

I turn early anyway. While Unity takes care of parts outside the Real Physics bubble, it still doesn't feel right to be ditching boosters and stages while straight over the KSC.

Oh, that explains the craters in the ground I keep finding

[cantab]

I don't know how that should work with shape based drag.

My suspicion is that the effects of shape will be present but somewhat muted. So a pointy rocket will experience less drag going nose first than going sideways, but not as much less as is realistic. I hope I'm wrong because I don't feel KSP should willfully compromise its physics to give "arcade" gameplay. Rather it should develop and refine its interface to make the simulation accessible like it did for the orbital mechanics going from nothing at first, then adding a real time orbit map, then adding manouvre nodes and course predictions. We know Squad at least are working on the equivalent for the aerodynamics.

[Xyrus]

Oh, that explains the craters in the ground I keep finding

Say what you want about my spacecraft, but they're always first to the scene of the crash.