Why Would a Pilot Have Limited Control?

[luna_cat]

I have the tracking station completely upgraded. I had a craft with a pilot with five stars. The craft had limited control. I think that the capsule had a 5K internal antenna, and this happened in low Kerbin orbit. Why might this happen?

[Cant think of a username]

Screenshot and send the top left of your screen where the commnet connection icons are

[Vanamonde]

Thread moved to the KSP1 sub. 

Are you perhaps out of electrical power? 

[Cant think of a username]

Also a possibility, but that doesn't result in "limited control"

[Superfluous J]

Was your control in fact limited, or was the tracking station just saying that?

If it was limited, in what way was it limited? What weren't you able to do?

[luna_cat]

Unfortunately, a screen shot is not possible, because the mission is over. The communications indicators in the upper left of the screen showed orange in the first one, and hovering over it show partial control. The other indicators showed a strong signal, no data transfer possible, and a direct connection to the KSC. There was only an internal 5K command antenna, and no data antenna, so that is consistent with the indicators.

There was plenty of electric charge, and an RTG to keep it that way.

The effect of partial control was to not allow the creation of a maneuver node. 

[18Watt]

Pilots need to be in command capsules to control a vessel.  Pilots located in crew containers are not able to control the ship.