[1.12.x] Kramax Autopilot Continued: Course guidance and auto-land for spaceplanes

[Creideiki]

I'm encountering an annoying bug; perhaps, I could just be a moron and can't figure it out. But the Flight Plan Management window can't be moved. Which is extremely annoying, as I have Kerbin Side GAP, and it massively increases the number of flight plans. Most of which are off the bottom of my screen and thus inaccessible. Is there any chance the Flight Plan Management window could be made movable, and a scrollbar be added to the list of flight plans?

 

Other than that: Excellent, excellent add-on, and I cannot recommend this enough.Now my landings are actually survivable!

[chimpbone]

13 minutes ago, Creideiki said:

I'm encountering an annoying bug; perhaps, I could just be a moron and can't figure it out. But the Flight Plan Management window can't be moved. Which is extremely annoying, as I have Kerbin Side GAP, and it massively increases the number of flight plans. Most of which are off the bottom of my screen and thus inaccessible. Is there any chance the Flight Plan Management window could be made movable, and a scrollbar be added to the list of flight plans?

 

Other than that: Excellent, excellent add-on, and I cannot recommend this enough.Now my landings are actually survivable!

I don't think that is a bug. More like a feature that was never there. My workaround has been to grab the Kramax window as far down as I can (not the Flight plan management window), and drag it to the top of my screen. The Flight Plan Management window will follow and I am able to see most of the flight plans that way. 

Edited August 19, 2017 by chimpbone

[Jacke]

Took a quick look at Kramax AP today.  Very similar to how I remember using Crzyrndm's Pilot Assistance a while back, even to the layout of the window (not surprising as Kramax was developed from Crzyrndm's).  Except Kramaz has a very large window and Pilot Assistance is rather compact (but with less features).

@linuxgurugamer, any way you could make it adjustable, or even have a slightly smaller variant window?

[linuxgurugamer]

Not really.  I'm doing very minimal work on this, mainly recompiles since some people wanted it, but I don't really have time to do anything with it.

If someone else offered to take it over, I'd be very happy to turn it over to them

[Catbus]

So I've been using this mod flawlessly with craft that take off from the ground, but I've been having trouble making it work with drones launched from the cargo bays of other craft. When I transfer control back to the command unit (in the current case, an OKTO2), it gets its bearings screwed up somehow. Throttle control works fine, but roll and pitch go haywire. Any suggestions how to normalize the autopilot's behavior for this situation?

[chimpbone]

Here are some flight plans I made for Galileo's Planet Pack. Put them somewhere in your /GameData folder.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x6rya1p7n30ap4i/GaelFlightPlans.cfg?dl=0

[linuxgurugamer]

New release, 0.3.4:

• Updated for KSP 1.3.1
• Fix for Heading hold not working., thanks @DavidShade
• Added extras directory and flight plans

[Catbus]

I'm eager to try out all the new flight plans. However, I've already noticed a problem with one: the Black Krags plan. The last step in the plan forces a plane to do a 180-degree turn while braking. I've tried it with two planes so far, both of which flipped and broke off wings.

[robm]

.How do you use the RALT function. Anytime I try to use it the craft flies erratically.

Edited January 10, 2018 by robm

[linuxgurugamer]

4 hours ago, robm said:

.How do you use the RALT function. Anytime I try to use it the craft flies erratically.

Sorry to say, I don't use this mod.  I'm basically doing recompiles to keep it working.  Maybe some of the other users can answer your questions

[DJ Reonic]

I noticed this doesn't seem to scale very well with rescaled systems. Is there any way around that, other than manually re-positioning waypoints?

[Phelan]

Does anyone have a flight plan for an unpowered landing (a la spaceshuttle)? It'll obviously need to come down much steeper since there won't be any means to maintain speed, and it'll probably depend much more on the craft itself (weight/drag/lift/..), but I figured before I start fiddling around with the numbers, I could try asking first

[DJ Reonic]

There was something out there at one time for a reentry profile. I use MJ to set a 40° AoA and then use Atmosphere Autopilot's Fly-by-wire and a joystick to fly the rest of it. I just wish there was a good setup with Kramax to do a good Shuttle reentry.

[Phelan]

6 hours ago, DJ Reonic said:

There was something out there at one time for a reentry profile. I use MJ to set a 40° AoA and then use Atmosphere Autopilot's Fly-by-wire and a joystick to fly the rest of it. I just wish there was a good setup with Kramax to do a good Shuttle reentry.

Heh, same here, though with keyboard instead of joystick. Along with Trajectories and MJ's spaceplane guidance (just the navball indicator for the alignment during the final approach), it's pretty easy. If coming from an equatorial orbit that is, something like a 30° incined orbit makes it a good bit harder.

Ah well, I guess for the more "routine" flights, I'll just use an overdesigned spaceplane that'll have enough fuel left for a powered approach, and do the more critical flights "by hand".

[Bit Fiddler]

just wondering if a feature to adjust control surface authority dynamically based on dynamic pressure is feasible.   thus at low speeds or high altitude control surfaces will move at max range, while at low altitude or high speeds they will be limited down to small movements to ease the oscillations of the craft.

 

 

of course this is assuming the Autopilot does not do this already....

[Starwaster]

On 2/13/2018 at 10:34 AM, Bit Fiddler said:

just wondering if a feature to adjust control surface authority dynamically based on dynamic pressure is feasible.   thus at low speeds or high altitude control surfaces will move at max range, while at low altitude or high speeds they will be limited down to small movements to ease the oscillations of the craft.

 

 

of course this is assuming the Autopilot does not do this already....

There is Dynamic Deflection which was created by @Crzyrndm but he's discontinued development and maintenance. I'm unaware of it having been picked up by anyone else though he's basically put it in the public domain.

[Bit Fiddler]

yes... this is why I asked about this mod.  it seems a logical place to put the replacement.    lol I could have just asked @linuxgurugamer to also add the dynamic deflection mod to his list I guess...  but I think it would be better if this mod just included that function as it really would be better if it integrated with the AP in a seamless way...

 

or if he wanted to take up the reins of that mod too then maybe do both just port the code into the Kramax mod so it does it all , and have the "light" version that is just the deflection portion.   

 

I was just asking as it seems to me that the Kramax mod is not doing any sort of deflection changes, as my space planes need to have me constantly tweak their deflection values to keep them stable as I launch and climb to orbit.

 

 

 

[linuxgurugamer]

4 hours ago, Bit Fiddler said:

yes... this is why I asked about this mod.  it seems a logical place to put the replacement.    lol I could have just asked @linuxgurugamer to also add the dynamic deflection mod to his list I guess...  but I think it would be better if this mod just included that function as it really would be better if it integrated with the AP in a seamless way...

 

or if he wanted to take up the reins of that mod too then maybe do both just port the code into the Kramax mod so it does it all , and have the "light" version that is just the deflection portion.   

 

I was just asking as it seems to me that the Kramax mod is not doing any sort of deflection changes, as my space planes need to have me constantly tweak their deflection values to keep them stable as I launch and climb to orbit.

 

This mod is in a pure maintenance mode, no further changes will be done by me regarding the functionality of this mod

[linuxgurugamer]

I may take a look at Dynamic Deflection soon 

[Bit Fiddler]

will you be fixing the flight plan list to have a scroll bar?  

[linuxgurugamer]

13 hours ago, Bit Fiddler said:

will you be fixing the flight plan list to have a scroll bar?  

Not soon, with 1.4 about to drop

[UncleAge]

Greetings,

1.4 just dropped and I know, most modders are currently busy to get their Mods to run.

Any Status Update for your AFS mod?

So long

UA

[linuxgurugamer]

4 hours ago, UncleAge said:

Greetings,

1.4 just dropped and I know, most modders are currently busy to get their Mods to run.

Any Status Update for your AFS mod?

So long

UA

No

[UncleAge]

I mean, it works, and runs without any issues so far just the popup when starting the game xD

Great Mod btw. been using it for ages now.

[Schmelge]

Does this mod work in 1.4.1?

Edited March 21, 2018 by Schmelge