What the hell? Kerbal are sick!

[Tokay Gris]

I touched down many vessels so far. So I got Mechjeb to do it for me. Does it more exact, actually.

So, I had Mechjeb 1.9 or 19 or what it was. Wanted to try 2.0, because docking gets tedious... Did it many times, so why not let the metalbrain do it.

So, a tiny mission to the Mun. Had hoped tp land close to another vessel... typed in the coordinates, hit "land on target".... breaking starts as usual.... and then it starts to spin out of control... Bob looks seriously green. Not his usual green. More kind of an alien green.

Any ideas?

[BananaDealer]

Yeah... that has happened to me... My last landing went seriously haywire... Went smooth up to like 100m from the Mun surface... Then I don't know what happened but the damn craft just started spinning like a drunken fly... I think MechJeb's having a hard time landing things in pin-point proximity (real- less than 1000m)... Dunno why...

I suggest automating the deorbit and correction burns and just doing the breaking burn yourself...

[maltesh]

One of the weird things about Mechjeb 2 (or it's been weird since I've been using it), is that if you just type in coordinates into the Landing Autopilot, it will generally fail to land, either by not completing its burns, or by failing to bring itself down properly.

On the other hand, if you click on the "Select Landing Target From the Map Screen" button, and click anywhere on the planet you want to land on to set a target landing zone, and /then/ type in the coordinates, it generally works fine.

[Tokay Gris]

Hm... ok, I will try that... I want to get Jeb and Bob off the Mun and on to Duna....

[Tokay Gris]

Funny. It does seem to work.

So now it is just the problem of when to jettison the nuclear engines. Since I need the last stage to get back to Kerbin.

[lyndonguitar]

One of the weird things about Mechjeb 2 (or it's been weird since I've been using it), is that if you just type in coordinates into the Landing Autopilot, it will generally fail to land, either by not completing its burns, or by failing to bring itself down properly.

On the other hand, if you click on the "Select Landing Target From the Map Screen" button, and click anywhere on the planet you want to land on to set a target landing zone, and /then/ type in the coordinates, it generally works fine.

It works for me when I type it in, I usually do this to have a pinpoint landing (lets say I want to land beside my Colony Modules already on the ground)