I fly in atmosphere in space sims :3

[Goddess Bhavani]

Wow, last year I tried Orbiter, but didn\'t really get into it. I was more into atmospheric and low orbit ops and never bothered to learn interplanetary transfers.

Imagine my enthusiasm when I saw this \'land speed record\' challenge on the other site - I promptly downloaded KSC and had a go!

Managed to hit Mach 1 on my first design and now trying to make a usable spaceplane. There might not be a lot of parts right now but I love the fact that everything is up to your imagination! Especially enjoy the individual canards and the way the advanced stabilisation system works like a fly-by-wire / inertial damper. It\'s something that opens up a lot of new options with regards to airframe design and using the FBW to keep things tidy.

Flying unstable airframes is pretty much a crazy task but with the right setup you can do a lot of fun things like breaking the sound barrier with an underpowered ship below 1500m, and do a Pugachev\'s Cobra before deploying the recovery chute

Something you can spend a night playing with like this:

I might hang around, document my wierd creations, learn some new stuff, and definitely would like to see this game and community grow. It\'s such a well constructed game - easy to pick up yet insanely hard to master!

[Luigibro606]

If you\'re into planes \'n\' all, you should get this part pack;

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=1172.0

[Scruce]

Welcome to the Kerbal Space Program Forums, pandoras kitten.

Interesting thoughts on Orbiter, it\'s not all interplanetary transfers that it focuses on, the newest Orbiter Beta introduced an atmospheric wind speed model.

[Capt'n Skunky]

Welcome to the KSP Forums!

Happy Launching!

Arrr!

Capt\'n Skunky

[Goddess Bhavani]

Thanks for the welcome

And today is a great day because the author of the C7 aviation pack released some new experimental parts.

Tried them last night - I had a go designing a small and simple \'interceptor\' spaceplane, which worked albeit with far-future levels of performance (No realistic ISP option here unlike Orbiter\'s DG and XRs).

Then some sort of mega jumbo jet which ended up having major issues as I hadn\'t considered how to launch such a giant winged aircraft vertically, and had fuel supply problems despite the wing parts being \'crossfeed capable\'. I guess that will be my Spruce Goose project.