Just learned about maneuver nodes...Ultimate facepalm...

[Chocolate Einstein]

Yay first post!

Watching Scott Manley and he uses this fantastical thing called the Maneuver Node...

then:

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN! MUN MISSION GO!

:D :D :D :D

And now I am addicted to KSP (so bad that I am doing schoolwork until midnight!)

DEVS MAKE .20 SO I CAN HAVE ULTIMATE HAPPY AND DRUG LIKE ADDICTION!

[joppiesaus]

Yay first post!

Watching Scott Manley and he uses this fantastical thing called the Maneuver Node...

then:

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN! MUN MISSION GO!

:D :D :D :D

And now I am addicted to KSP (so bad that I am doing schoolwork until midnight!)

DEVS MAKE .20 SO I CAN HAVE ULTIMATE HAPPY AND DRUG LIKE ADDICTION!

Yeah, it saves a lot of calculations!

[ComradeGoat]

Am finding that with experience, and thanks to Protractor and Engineer Redux, I use manoeuvre nodes less and less. Doing entire Jool missions without using them at all now. Anyone else?

[Scotius]

I'm a visualist - i loke to see how my orbit will look after the maneuver. Set of dry numbers from Protractor and Engineer Redux does not work as good for me.

[Lachned]

yep....helped me so much when I discovered how to correctly use them.

For longer burns they're not as usably but still helpful...

[Chocolate Einstein]

Hehe, Thanks guys. now all I need is a landing node!

I can get to the Mun, but when I get there, there is usually a larde space ship sized splat on the surface.

[Eric S]

Am finding that with experience, and thanks to Protractor and Engineer Redux, I use manoeuvre nodes less and less. Doing entire Jool missions without using them at all now. Anyone else?

Nope. I'm using maneuver nodes more and more, even with those tools. It lets me pull off missions with tighter delta-v budgets. True story, on my last trip to/from Duna, I wouldn't have made it back if I had trusted Protractor because I had used the wrong number for the delta-v to reach low duna orbit from the surface. Because I checked it's answer with a maneuver node, I realized that it was transferring me weeks early for an optimal tranfer which would have resulted in needing a course correction that was larger than my remaining fuel. By playing with maneuver nodes, I usually wind up with much smaller course corrections and much more accurate arrivals.

Protractor is only an approximation in most cases, since Kerbin is the only planet with a circular orbit, and Protractor doesn't compensate for that.

[AmpsterMan]

Am finding that with experience, and thanks to Protractor and Engineer Redux, I use manoeuvre nodes less and less. Doing entire Jool missions without using them at all now. Anyone else?

I don't use the protractor mod and only use the Kerbal Engineer four Delta v in the VAB so I use the maneuver nodes for everything.

However I HAVE gone to Jool and Duna without mods or nodes in 0.17

[SmallChange]

Yeah, it saves a lot of calculations!

No, it saves a lot of innocent Kerbals!