Mission Planner

[jelgerlemmens]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to KSP but i sincerely enjoy every second of playing

My suggestion would be a "mission planner" accesible/buildable from the space centre and in flight. Something to scribble down notes about burns, the possibility to plot a course to a destination, incorporating the action groups & stages maybe?. Basically a little more foreplay before you press the ignition button. not something which you'd have to do but more of a side option.

grtzz

[Beeman]

There was a pretty good discussion about something like this recently. Kind of. It was about a chalkboard or whiteboard or something like that, kind of like the one they used to plan out Apollo oh so long ago. Here's the thread:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/43440-Mission-Control-ChalkBoard?highlight=chalkboard

There were some good ideas in there, if I recall correctly. They could even implement text bits in a written-lookin' font like comic sans or something for working out rough calculations(perhaps an in-built give-or-take addendum to your numbers) for figuring out the rough requirements for burns and things.

[peadar1987]

I like this idea, even if you get to put a "dummy" body in an imaginary orbit, so you can plan your manoeuvres and work out how much delta-v you'll need without having to actually put a physical rocket up there first, sort of like the orbital map screen, only instead of having to launch a body, you just stick in initial orbital parameters, and work from there. It would be especially cool if instead of the 3d render, it was rendered like a whiteboard, with the trajectories and planets drawn in pen.