STOL/VTOL Challenge

[cardgame]

Land on this tiny, hilly island.

ONLY C7 components. No Pontoons or third party skids to make this easier. I\'ll allow the plane to be moving, as long as 2+ landing gears are on the ground and it doesn\'t exceed 10 m/s.

Directions:

[Tosh]

To hell with that island! It\'s actually a part of underwater cliff visible in this picture:

I\'ve landed there -- but have slept into the water:

Then I\'ve tried to get on the ground again and --

Consider this as a proof I have had standard C7 gear

Also notice the slope. Best of luck to next pilots in standing still on such a hillside))

[Squeal]

Well, I had a partial success. I reached the island, but not without the command module snapping off my STOL. Maybe with another try I could land, despite the incredibly small size of the island. In the end, I learnt a lot about landing, so it was all worthwhile.

I\'m just wondering, how does your STOL work? I cannot work it out from the picture. My own works quite simply; drop down to you are a few meters off the ground, but heading horizontally. Then all that is needed is to fire the RCS and brake until it drops onto the floor. If you get the first part done properly, it\'s very reliable.

[Tosh]

I\'m just wondering, how does your STOL work? I cannot work it out from the picture. My own works quite simply; drop down to you are a few meters off the ground, but heading horizontally. Then all that is needed is to fire the RCS and brake until it drops onto the floor. If you get the first part done properly, it\'s very reliable.

I do the same . One of RCS landing ports is visible near the nose gear in the last picture I\'ve posted.

[Tim_Barrett]

I flew right past the peninsula and the island didn\'t even show up! It dissappeared..

[Chubbs]

I flew right past the peninsula and the island didn\'t even show up! It dissappeared..

That\'s because of terrain LOD\'s. I think that there\'s an option to change them somewhere.

[RC1062]

The island isn\'t in the same place in both those pictures... The circle in the first picture is too high.

Anyway once I\'ve made a balanced VTOL I think I\'ll have a go at this.

[Tim_Barrett]

Easy. I used my Hummingbird for the job.

[Tosh]

And finally...

Note how glitchy the textures look. I think this \'island\' is not even supposed to stick out of the water ))

[cardgame]

Good work guys

Hope this challenge was entertaining.

[Tosh]

Good work guys

Hope this challenge was entertaining.

And where\'s your try?

[cardgame]

It\'s that first picture there

Crashed and burned while trying to align my ship ???

The defying isle is posted because I thought it might be hard for others too

[RedDwarfIV]

Where\'s the island?

[Tosh]

Where\'s the island?

Kersica? 100 Km North-East of KSC. Here\'s the map:

[RedDwarfIV]

I designed a VTOL, but it uses some parts not in C7. So its invalid for this.

[RedDwarfIV]

The VA Goshawk. S/VTOL. Although it uses SRBs as a first stage, the spaceplane itself is fully built from C7 parts, and can reach the island with fuel to spare.

This craft got me the closest yet. However, it suffered an RCS malfunction, unrelated to fuel, just before landing. The retros failed to fire, and it crashed.

[Tim_Barrett]

The VA Goshawk. S/VTOL. Although it uses SRBs as a first stage, the spaceplane itself is fully built from C7 parts, and can reach the island with fuel to spare.

This craft got me the closest yet. However, it suffered an RCS malfunction, unrelated to fuel, just before landing. The retros failed to fire, and it crashed.

I think that plane might be disqualified for having two stages..

It\'s a plane, not a shuttle-type vehichle.

[RedDwarfIV]

I think that plane might be disqualified for having two stages..

It\'s a plane, not a shuttle-type vehichle.

It doesn\'t actually need the SRBs. They just make orbital entry that much faster.

But anyhoo, I landed by the island and powered myself up and onto it. The screenshot shows only one landing gear on the ground, but it did have all three.