Aerobraking with Far

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Whats a good Aerobraking altitude at Eve for an 80 Ton ship destined for Gilly? Its been a long time so I can't really remember a safe altitude. I have quickloading enabled but I really only want to use it for bugs.

[ferram4]

Depends.

It depends on whether the vehicle is very draggy or very aerodynamic.

It depends on whether you have Deadly Reentry installed or not.

It depends on what your excess hyperbolic velocity is.

It depends on how circular you want the resulting orbit to be.

Even in stock your question lacks sufficient data to answer it. With FAR, there's no way to provide a satisfactory answer, besides ones that are blindingly obvious and unhelpful.

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Its ok I got it on the first go, and nothing got fried from DRE.

[hab136]

Trajectories will show you your aerobrake path (but beware there's currently a bug with FAR that causes it to be inaccurate for landings, should be fixed soon). Works perfectly with stock or NEAR.

[longbyte1]

Also depends on the attitude/angle of attack your ship is set to on reentry. Spaceplanes usually do 40 degrees to focus the heat on the belly.