Electric orehauler racing

[mystifeid]

Yeah, I know I said no more but that last landing kept eating at me. That should have been a faster time. That flight had a really bad climbout from the island runway too. Anyway Jeb put on his fireproof suit and buckled himself in once more. With engine size increased to 57% the indomitable Fat Boy managed 5:30 with 76 EC remaining. So close. A little faster and I could have stopped there.

The boys pushed the plane back into the hangar and revved up the engines to 58%. Then this:

5:26 !!

With 39 EC remaining. I'm starting to get a little scared about what Fat Boy can do but probably it can't do too much better. I realized that I've gone from just trying to land it to landing it after coming into a final turn at 260m/s just a couple of hundred metres back. It's very hard moving the right hand back and forth from the mouse (to keep a chase view) to the keyboard (to adjust prop pitch). Maybe setting some macros on the mouse would make it a lot easier. Nevertheless, although this is still not the perfect flight (for Fat Boy), it's getting very close to it.

 

Edited March 12, 2020 by mystifeid

[vyznev]

34 minutes ago, mystifeid said:

It's very hard moving the right hand back and forth from the mouse (to keep a chase view) to the keyboard (to adjust prop pitch).

Hmm. I usually use the actual chase camera mode for landing (I'm not sure, but I think your camera mode got reset back to auto when you left IVA?) and the arrow keys for any manual viewpoint adjustments. It's not as precise as using the mouse, but works well enough.

You could also consider rebinding prop pitch to main throttle, so that you can control it with your left hand. I saw someone do that in another thread recently, and it seems to make a lot of sense for prop planes.

[mystifeid]

31 minutes ago, vyznev said:

Hmm. I usually use the actual chase camera mode for landing (I'm not sure, but I think your camera mode got reset back to auto when you left IVA?) and the arrow keys for any manual viewpoint adjustments. It's not as precise as using the mouse, but works well enough.

You could also consider rebinding prop pitch to main throttle, so that you can control it with your left hand. I saw someone do that in another thread recently, and it seems to make a lot of sense for prop planes.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I've tried using chase view and it didn't work. I've also tried using the arrow keys and bouncing from them to the prop pitch keys (I'm using "/" and "*" at the top of the number pad) is harder than using the mouse. If I was just puttering in for any old landing it wouldn't matter but, I'm not.

I don't like binding anything to the main throttle because (at least in previous versions) the main throttle does not have fine control (caps-lock) and my left hand is already pretty busy flying the plane. No, I think if I was going to keep doing this mouse macros would be the easiest thing for me.

Edited March 12, 2020 by mystifeid

[mystifeid]

If you are interested, I put Fat Boy on KerbalX here : https://kerbalx.com/mystifeid/Fat-Boy

I could care less if you want to fly it or modify and fly it in this challenge. If you do try and fly the course with it I would suggest lowering the engine size at first otherwise I can guarantee you will run out of EC long before you finish.