Totally new to this game! Plain living its own life???

[Andreaanstad]

Hi, i am trying to build a plane. I managed to build a plane that could fly pretty far, but it took WAY WAY WAY to long time to fly were im supposed. So im trying with liquid fuel and oxidiser. when on the ground before i touch anything, it turning slowly to the right??? and the flaps is shaking like its having a zeisure! and when i get it up in some speed. It starting to Jump around up and down???  looks like a bad gta mod were everything jumps just by touching it. 

[Gargamel]

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[Serenity]

45 minutes ago, Andreaanstad said:

Hi, i am trying to build a plane. I managed to build a plane that could fly pretty far, but it took WAY WAY WAY to long time to fly were im supposed. So im trying with liquid fuel and oxidiser. when on the ground before i touch anything, it turning slowly to the right??? and the flaps is shaking like its having a zeisure! and when i get it up in some speed. It starting to Jump around up and down???  looks like a bad gta mod were everything jumps just by touching it. 

Hello, few tips:

You can use Physical Warp to travel faster inside atmosphere, its a bit wonky depending the speed, but sometimes it helps to travel faster, alt+, and alt+. are the default buttons(you can also use this to do long burns in space)

Enable Advanced Tweakables ingame in settings and make sure all your parts are Autostruted to Grandparent Part, they make your craft tight(you can also put some on heavy but google for more info in that)

Careful how much you clip parts, clipping too much or the wrong parts give the wobble effect.

You can disable SAS and use Trim to fly straight, Alt+W,A,S,D , SaS has to be disabled for trim to work

Capslock toggles precision controls for smaller changes etc

If you want a more smooth flying experience, speed control, autopilot etc and more easy physical warps i suggest this mod:

 

 

Edited August 15, 2020 by Boyster

[king of nowhere]

it would also help, every time you are asking questions regarding a specific vehicle, to post some pictures.

anyway, it's normal that flying takes long. consider how long it takes for a plane to go around the world. 200 years ago people would have never believed it would be possible to go so fast, and yet it still takes too long for fun. spaceships also take long, but you can increase the speed to skip the boring parts.

[jimmymcgoochie]

Jet engines are much more efficient than a rocket for travelling around on a planet with oxygen in its atmosphere, so unless you're building an SSTO (single stage to orbit) spaceplane, leave the rockets and the oxidiser behind and stick with just liquid fuel and jets. Flying long distances can be made much easier with a) an autopilot mod, of which there are several, and b) engaging physics warp by pressing the > key (by default) which, when moving in an atmosphere, can speed the game up by up to 4 times. Just be careful though as it can also be a bit weird at that speed, things can go wrong very quickly and it's very easy to rip the wings off especially on a faster plane.

Regarding the plane handling badly on the ground- enable 'Advanced Tweakables' in the main menu settings, then when you're building the plane or on the runway, right click the front wheel, override friction control and reduce it considerably (about 0.5 is good); this will make the plane less likely to swerve to either side when taking off or landing.

You can also override the suspension and increase the spring and damper strengths to make it more stable on the runway, but that does come with a risk of making it harder to rotate the plane and get off the ground.