Using the current version of KSP... If you had a Landing Pad near a Mun Base - Could you stick the landing?

[Superfluous J]

15 hours ago, Wobbly Av8r said:

Not trying to be a pessimist here - I'm all for the gung-ho, "let's kick some interplanetary butt here!" gameplay - but insinuating that using ~8 buttons (W,A,S & D, Q & E, along with Shift/Ctrl) loosely arranged into a logical flow pattern to enable precise three-dimensional maneuvers while utilizing a two-dimensional screen is, dare I say, "not likely to occur with any consistency".

It's not that bad.

It's worse.

WASD for aim. QE for rotation. IKJL for translation via rcs jets. And the mouse because with a 2-d screen sometimes you need to see things in a different perspective. Oh and usually I control from the docking port so the navball is upside down from what I'm used to from a flying perspective, but correct for the translations.

But yes, it is totally possible to pinpoint a landing from orbit onto a docking port. I used to do it all the time. It would probably take me a few tries now, years later, but I'm sure it's still totally doable. And if you remove the "land on a docking port" restriction and just want to land in an area within - say - 10 m of a point on the ground then sure that's no problem at all.

Also, it helps if you have great TWR, plenty of reaction wheels, and extremely well balanced RCS jets.

[Spricigo]

9 minutes ago, Superfluous J said:

It's not that bad.

It's worse.

At this point I'd start to design a cargo rover.

[Corona688]

7 hours ago, Wobbly Av8r said:

While I am impressed that you have been successful essentially combining the docking and landing maneuvers @Corona688 I'm assuming you do that with some level of modding and/or automation?

I gave step-by-step instructions for how I do it, and the precision I can expect for each step.  No mods, no automation.  Quickaves, I will confess to - more of them for the docking part than the rest of it, getting reach-out-and-touch close isn't too hard.

Doing intercepts in orbit teaches a lot of good habits, and this is an extension of that.  Get your timing right and you can do intercepts while reaching orbit.  The same navball tricks work when I didn't expect them to, but should have, because the navball doesn't care about context.

Keep the prograde indicator pointed at the target, and you're moving towards it;  keep it pointed there by brute force, or know what direction it's drifting so it will fall into place (more or less), and you're golden.

Edited December 18, 2020 by Corona688