Instrumentation

[possum]

I would like to see some better instrumentation for landing. I have a few ideas here with the first being to add the radar altimeter in a drop down o the UI or like the velocity change bar next to the nav ball used with maneuver nodes. This will make landings so much easier. A horizontal speed indicator with a top down display similar to the nav ball would also be very useful. This could be just a simple square with cross hairs and a velocity mark.

For general flight, I would like to see fuel remaining as more than just a quantity reading. Seeing a display or remaining delta v or estimated burn time remaining for a stage would be fantastic.

IVA needs the velocity required bar form the maneuver nodes added as well as time to node. That is the reason i rarely fly IVA.

[KrazyKrl]

IVA already has most of this data, Radar Altimeter being one of them.

Vertical velocity indicator is in both screens. (It's the gauge thing to the right of your altitude, 9 o'clock is 0 vertical speed, logarithmic scale.)

Horizontal velocity is easily extrapolated on the navball, and is also a function of your vertical speed. More prograde deviation from heading == more horizontal speed compared to your vertical speed.

Kerbal Engineer is what I have used to calculate most of the info I need for normal operations. (Too bad it's currently broken(as of Oct,2013).)

I agree with IVAs needing a bit of love after the maneuver nodes were added. But, in my opinion, are a low priority compared to the rest of the features that need to be added to KSP (SCIENCE! being the next one.)

You can check out SteamGauges(I think) if you want a nice looking set of HUD Gauges.