I cannot finish "Docking 101" tutorial

[glorifiedsoul]

And I can't seem to find a good video about it .. I've been to the part where we closed the map view and tried to do something with our RCS, [R] , [H]; this is where i failed

please help. I'm new around and I couldnt find anything useful

[Dilli]

5thHorseman posted these:

https://youtu.be/XuqnH4yLAdE

https://youtu.be/4Jztv_EKzt8

https://youtu.be/QuwdHnntB-0

Do they help?

[Jaeleth]

And I can't seem to find a good video about it .. I've been to the part where we closed the map view and tried to do something with our RCS, [R] , [H]; this is where i failed

please help. I'm new around and I couldnt find anything useful

Do not follow the tutorial to the letter, it is... well... wrong

Use main engines to bleed off speed until 5 m/s difference, not 50m/s... (when you get the hang of it you will use main engine to "brake" until 0m/s to 0.2 m/s)

Use RCS from there on until 0 m/s

And that's about it

By the way, start equalizing speed (burning retrograde to target) NOT at 60Km, but at 5Km , you'll still have PLENTY of time to do everything, you will only need to make those long "braking" burns when intercepting asteroids, for instance, later on, with large ships, loaded with fuel and not that much thrust to spare...

Edited May 20, 2015 by Jaeleth

[srbbnd]

I was having the same problem. You have to follow the tutorial exactly for it to progress to the next stage, even if it makes you worse off. I think the area you are at is where you use the RCS thrusters to get yourself to 0 meters per second relative to the target ship. What you have to do is keep holding H until it gets to 0. The problem is when you start getting near 0 the prograde switches to the opposite side and since you are going so slow you don't have the option to auto click prograde if you stop. The key is keep holding H and don't let up until you get to 0 exactly. If you do release H accidentally speed up a bit until you are moving fast enough to get the options to auto target and try again.