Surface EVA reports (kerbin)

[AHeroReborn]

Does anyone have any craft concepts that work well for these types of contracts. I am currently testing what is essentially a command pod with 2 Junos on it. It works well except for the fact that jet engines don't immediately respond to a change in thrust, making landing accurately almost impossible.

[bewing]

It depends on if you are in a hurry or not. Is your realtime gameplay limited? It takes a little while, but it's safest and most profitable to taxi around in a small jet to do those experiments. Especially if you have a few airborne contracts to do too. You just drive around avoiding the dangerous ridges, hop out when you reach a waypoint and do your experiment -- and when you are done on the ground you take off and do the airborne waypoints.

 

[mk1980]

guess i'd make a small plane that can land in rough terrain. mabye add parachutes if you aren't good at landing (and a 2nd seat for an engineer to repack the chutes).

tbh, i skip those contracts when they pop up. the reward is fairly low for the real time investment.

[Spricigo]

Well, that one fly pretty well, just land near the spot and taxi around as Bewing suggests. 

I guess you can try a vtol design but seems unnecessary overcomplication.

1 hour ago, mk1980 said:

tbh, i skip those contracts when they pop up. the reward is fairly low for the real time investment

Ditto

[Palaceviking]

Rockets and rovers are the way forward.