Commnet manouver automation

[Wjolcz]

I know a lot of people are against automation but when I come to think of it, it could be pretty useful. There's this guy who suggests the flight manager mod as a stock feature:

Now I think this would be useful for Falcon 9-like recoveries only. I think the manouver burns should simply become automated as long as there's connection with the probe/a pilot is on-board.

So there are two scenarios I see this being useful in:

1. This one is mentioned before: Falcon 9 recoveries. You let the 2nd stage fly up and perform the circularization burn and land the 1st stage booster yourself in the atmosphere.

2. Interplanetary probes with mid-course correction burns: You set up a manouver and as long as the vessel has commnet connection/pilot on-board it does the manouver itself in the background (taking the fuel loss into account, of course).

These are the two cases I would see this being useful in. Maybe the probes shouldn't be allowed to perform the manouvers below some altitude to prevent landing/mountain encounter mishaps.

[Superfluous J]

I thought this was going to be a suggestion to automate keeping satellites in constellations (like, each 90 degrees apart orbiting all at the same altitude) in sync with each other.

I don't think we'll ever see ships doing anything that modifies their orbits while on rails in the stock game, and I'm not 100% sure if I'm for or against it. I'm generally for anything that removes drudgery but I'm not convinced that nailing a perfect mid-course correction counts as drudgery. Getting into orbit after a good gravity turn though is.