Time warp for phase angles

[Scarecrow88]

What's the best way to time warp when waiting for angles to line up for inter-planetary travel? So far I have only been to Duna, and getting there, I parked my ship in LKO, put a probe on the launch pad and used time warp. However, now that my ship is in Duna parking orbit, it limits how fast I can time warp due to being below 100km.

I use a protractor mod to tell me when the angle is correct, but a protractor based at Kerbin doesn't give me the angle I need to return from Duna.

[rosenkranz]

Use kerbal alarm clock. Set the alarm for a transfer back to kerbin while the duna ship is active and then go to the KSC probe and timewarp till the alarm goes off.

[Scarecrow88]

Where do you get the alarm clock from?

[trippytripp]

As i'm not ENTIRELY sure of your situation, I can't guarantee how helpful it'll be, but i'd suggest this ( http://ksp.olex.biz/ ). It's extremely helpful, and it's how i've done all of my interplanetary missions.

[Scarecrow88]

Thanks Trippy. Whilst I understand about phase and ejection angles, what I am wondering is how you can use maximum time warp to the point where the angles are what you need, when your ship in a low orbit limits how much time warp you can use.

[Mr Shifty]

Where do you get the alarm clock from?

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/kerbal-alarm-clock-2/

[tomf]

If you want to have a higher time warp then you need to switch to another craft

I have a craft that is just a probe that sits on the runway at high warp while I wait for the alarm I have set in the alarm clock to send a different ship off interplanetary.

[rodion_herrera]

I simply increase PE and AP to the point that the body allows me to do max timewarps. While costly on fuel, I always carry extra (via larger tanks, or follow-on tankers) so this method always worked for me, esp. if I let MechJEB use the initial calculations (I say initial because I don't trust MechJEB's transfers--I usually have to manually fine tune them myself using the manu nodes), because with MJ, I don't need an alarm clock--MJ automatically dewarps when nearing the time of the burn.

[tek_604]

Something I discovered last week is that the latest MJ dev releases do a pretty good job of calculating interplanetary transfers, seemingly now using a very similar algorithm to Protractor. I actually had 6 flights in progress at once (2 to Moho, 2 to Jool, 1 to Dres and 1 to Eeloo), and in combination with Alarm Clock (which also now saves manoeuvre nodes calculated by MJ), was able to switch between flights pretty easily.

Actually, I did find that MJ wasn't quite as efficient as Protractor, but, pretty damn close. When I plotted my two flights to Jool, the first was done by MJ, and the 2nd was a manual burn using Protractor, about 1 1/2 days after the MJ burn. The later flight (done through Protractor) actually ended up arriving some 5 days before the MJ flight; both flights were in the order of 270 days or so to Jool.

I've not really added anything to answer the OP's question, except that he might want to consider controlling many different flights at the same time. This allows you to have things to do when warping time and your different flights waiting for their transfer windows.

[Scarecrow88]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys.