I finally did it! [Spoilers]

[Alshain]

While waiting on mods to update, I've spent the weekend practicing my aircraft landing skills. Something that usually ended up with half a craft for me. I was able to get a couple of achievements I've never been able to do before. Just thought I would share my joy.

I'm getting rather skilled at it now, I even removed the RealChute "crutch" from my last iteration (make no mistake, I love RealChute but a small atmospheric plane shouldn't need drag chutes). I can't wait to get more of the plane mod packs now, I just saw SP+ got updated.

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Edited July 20, 2014 by Alshain

[Thomas988]

Very nice plane there indeed! It's always a lot of fun to explore easter eggs for the first time.

[KvickFlygarn87]

Good job man! SSTO next?

[Alshain]

Good job man! SSTO next?

I've done it a bit backward. I've gotten SSTO's into space. They just usually don't end on the ground in one piece. Though for a while I had mastered the art of landing just a cockpit.

[Pecan]

The nice thing about SSTOs is that you don't have to waste all that mass on wings or spend all that time messing around in the atmosphere. Spaceplanes are a lot of work compared to SSTOs, especially as you can't learn about the transition from flight to orbit and re-entry to flight until you've spent ages getting high and fast. At least you can quicksave in atmosphere now, it used to be a real pain when you had to start each flight on the ground or in orbit.

For landing practice you can do what real pilots do though - circuits and bumps. Just take off, circle, land and immediately lift off again. (If that's what is in the album of pictures, I apologise and point to the note in my signature *sigh*).

[Alshain]

For landing practice you can do what real pilots do though - circuits and bumps. Just take off, circle, land and immediately lift off again. (If that's what is in the album of pictures, I apologise and point to the note in my signature *sigh*).

Yep, that's what it is. Mostly take of from KSC, land at island, take off from island, land at KSC.