Docking on surface, without wheels.

[Ohls]

How is it done?

I can dock easily when landing with a rover or other wheel-equiped craft. But docking two stations that are only equiped with landing struts seems impossible to me. I can land in the vicinity of a station, but to then navigate precisly enough to land with the docking ports perfectly aligned seems extremely difficult to me. Switching from controlling via the navball to visually looking at the craft always messes me up. Sometimes the docking port isn't on the "front" and so makes left/right tilt the craft up/down(seen from the position of the docking port being front). This compounds the difficulty. It is hard enough in space. With a surface and gravity to contend with I just can't do it.

I've seen several multidocked station on the forums so I know it can be done. Is there a special technique to doing this? I've searched to no avail, yet maybe I missed a tutorial somewhere? Or better yet, a video tutorial?

Thanks in advance, fellow kerbinauts.

[Scarecrow88]

If the part being docked doesn't have wheels, it is usually put in to position and docked on the back of something that does have wheels. That's how I put my Mun base together anyway. I had a rover type vehicle which was basically a set of wheels with a docking port on top that I would drive under each section, dock with it, raise the legs of the section so that I could then drive it about, and once it was docked with the rest of the base, I would lower the legs and drop off the rover/mover.

Edited August 27, 2013 by Scarecrow88

[Ohls]

Ah, thanks for you answer! I'll try that after work.