MMU flight on the moons - how far can you go?

[thorfinn]

Hallo. Long time no see, around here.

The little contest I want to start is quite simple. Show me, with pictures, how far you can fly on the Mun with our brand new rocket packs.

I\'m not going to organize this in a very formal way, I just want to see what people can manage to do

I\'ll leave this here just to get you started:

Yesterday, the good Bob Kerman flew 4200 meters away from my first heavy lander and back, skimming the surface and burning about 80% of the MMU fuel. (The marker in the image says 4,1 km, but I walked around a bit.) So, the maximum range in nap-of-the-Mun flight is probably something like... 11 kilometers, 12? Or maybe I suck, somebody will manage 15 on the first try, and I\'ll eat my bowler hat Rockerduck style.

Semi-ballistic arcs should take you quite farther away... but good luck to everybody when trying to judge a safe landing with just the altimeter and variometer

For ease of scoring, many of you will want to fly all the way in one direction. You are not required, but encouraged to go and pick up your athlete afterwards in that case

Minmus edition: you are also encouraged to try this on Minmus, of course (haven\'t gone there yet in 0.16, myself). But I understood that the MMU delta vee is enough to get in orbit around Minmus, or nearly so... therefore this could become a bit meaningless But we shall see.

[Vostok]

I have tried this on minmus, and yes, orbit is possible

I messed the de-orbit burn though, I left it too late and crashed within 100m of where my ship was landed.