First time to jool system and i got a transfer back to kerbin for 450 m/s DV

[Turvok]

So i just did some fly by's in jool for my first time. I aerobraked around jool, circulized myself, went out to Laythe and ended up in a polar orbit. I probably spent 1k delta v screwing with my orbit around laythe. At this point i was down to around 3900 DV and doing some calc's i figured i might be able to get one more fly by of one of Jool's other moons. After screwing with maneuver nodes i got an intercept with Tylo, that happened to be a fly by. Then i was going to circulize around jool and hope i had enough DV in the tank to get my guys back to kerbin. But on my way to Tylo i started playing with nodes and managed to get an encounter with kerbin, and it cost me only an extra 450 ish delta v to get it. I'm rather pleased with myself for getting a gravity assist off tylo without even really intending it.

Question though is when coming into jool system, is it best to intercept laythe if that's where you intend to go? or get into jool orbit first then go up to laythe.

Edited November 28, 2013 by Turvok
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[turkwinif]

Try to aim for Laythe if your intended targets are going to be Laythe, Vall, and/or Tylo. Bop and Poll would *probably* be easier to reach by circularizing around Jool first.

[Superfluous J]

Jool is like Tahiti... It's a magical place.

I have a probe going there now and I was fully intending to aerobrake. Randomly, when I finished my encounter burn, I got an encounter with Vall that gave me an encounter with Laythe that got me in about the orbit I wanted around Jool.