Ssto help

[Dimetime35c]

okay this is not a how to build an SSTO question. this is a how to fly an SSTO question. okay i am able to build them just fine or use stock craft from one of the mod packs i have installed. my problem is flying them. i cant get into orbit. i dont know were im making my mistakes. when i take off i start with about a 15 to 20 degree angle of nose up. ill hold that using the computer control until my air breathing engines flame out. then i hit the rocket engine and lower the nose to about a 5 to 10 degree angle. i hold that until ive used up all my fuel. is this right? do i climb as soon as i lift off the runway or do i need to climb then level out and gain speed then climb again? im so confused. i can orbit with rockets just fine. its these planes that are giving me so much trouble. thanks for any advice and please dont call me a stupid noob we were all new at the game at some point. im sure you had trouble with things that seemed so easy to do.

[Xetalim]

Is a tutorial on youtube, might help.

That might help:)

Welcome to the game.

[Dimetime35c]

i know i didnt realize i was on wrong thread till i hit post and it brought me to the thread page. though i click the other one.

[Xetalim]

i know i didnt realize i was on wrong thread till i hit post and it brought me to the thread page. though i click the other one.

No worries, a moderator will move it for sure.

[1D-1()T]

This is how I normally do it.

1. Straight up, till about 25 thousand m, and level off

2. Keep an angle of around 5 degrees

3. At flame out lower throttle until engine re-starts

4. Repeat 3 until you aren't getting any speed from the jet

5. Start rockets, thrusting either straight up or prograde, your choice

6. Get apoapsis to 80000 m

7. Warp till you are there and circularise

Hope this helps

[Pursuedtank]

Follow the instructions above, but don't send your plane straight up initially unless it can go straight up. You'll want to get out of the lower atmosphere as fast as possible, but 45-50 degrees should be sufficient for this

please dont call me a stupid noob we were all new at the game at some point. im sure you had trouble with things that seemed so easy to do.

And no one is going to call you a stupid noob, SSTO's are one of the hardest things to do in the game, a large number of people struggle with them.

[Tex_NL]

This is how I normally do it.

1. Straight up, till about 25 thousand m, and level off

2. Keep an angle of around 5 degrees

3. At flame out lower throttle until engine re-starts

4. Repeat 3 until you aren't getting any speed from the jet

5. Start rockets, thrusting either straight up or prograde, your choice

6. Get apoapsis to 80000 m

7. Warp till you are there and circularise

Hope this helps

In general I agree with your method but many SSTO planes flame out well before they hit 25km unless they are going very fast. An more failsafe method is to climb to 15km as fast as possible then level off to about 5 degree climb to gain speed. Slowly climb and make sure your doing at least 1000m/s at 20 km altitude. Maintain this climb and acceleration as long as possible, reduce throttle to prevent flame out if you have to. (Jet fuel is cheap, rocket fuel is not.)

When climbing gets too difficult or you run out of throttle switch to rockets. Raise your prograde up to about 5 to 10 degrees and increase AP to 70+ km. Warp to AP and circularize.

[Ted]

Moved thread.