Don't know about bouncing pythons or asps, but I went for a planetary stroll in a T6, completely overcooked it and did some bouncing that would make Barnes Wallis proud. I had been flying my 'vette all day before and forgot to adapt my piloting style! I have done a truly cinematic planet landing in my 'vette that was straight out of Blues Brothers in space. Wish I'd recorded it as it wasn't deliberate but looked as though it was.
How do YOU land on planets?
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Low grav: fast and stylish swoop in, just like with any starport pad
High gav: swoop in, followed by a vertical touchdown
Very high grav: vertical landing as carefully managed as sneaking into bed without waking the wife at 5am
High gav: swoop in, followed by a vertical touchdown
Very high grav: vertical landing as carefully managed as sneaking into bed without waking the wife at 5am
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Fast, with one finger on the screenshot button and SRV tyres already squealing!
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Hopefully by not crashing.
Second time I landed on a planet I forgot that gravity exists.. I almost exploded. Was really funny though after the initial shock!
Second time I landed on a planet I forgot that gravity exists.. I almost exploded. Was really funny though after the initial shock!
Up to 2.5 G: Recklessly fast, extra boost because I'm impatient, and attention periodically focused on my beer.
Over 2.5 G: Very carefully, nose straight up immediately after dropping from glide. From there I reverse down to ~50 meters (reversing down offers plenty of vertical control along with allowing for a quick BOOST away from the planet if the velocity gets away from me). At around 50 meters I level out, put out the landing gear, and search for a landing spot. Once I've got a spot I descend either using vertical thrusters (these are mapped to an analog control and allow for a very safe, gentle descent even in high G).
Over 2.5 G: Very carefully, nose straight up immediately after dropping from glide. From there I reverse down to ~50 meters (reversing down offers plenty of vertical control along with allowing for a quick BOOST away from the planet if the velocity gets away from me). At around 50 meters I level out, put out the landing gear, and search for a landing spot. Once I've got a spot I descend either using vertical thrusters (these are mapped to an analog control and allow for a very safe, gentle descent even in high G).
Too steep to glide because I forgot about 'glide' and then 148 boosts on full throttle because I'm too far away. By that time I'm bored so I hit the deck going too fast because I forgot to slow down. When asked at the stations why my shields are always down, I laugh and say "I was being chased.... again!"
Fabulous ... did you create that image? Anyway, hope you don't mind but I shared it on my facebook page.
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Welcome aboard CMDR.
Help your self to whatever is left.
The Beer is in the fridge, and the nuts are all over the board.
An remember no one makes Elite without getting a few infractions.
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Re: the X Wing.
Not my pic, but whenever anyone talks about landings there are four things I am looking for:
1) The WW2 X Wing.
2) The space shuttle Columbia re-entry disaster. (too soon?)
3) The NASA lifting body crash that was used in the opening credits of hte Six Million Dollar Man.
4) Some unmade youtube mashup of the PitchBlack crash landing, Serenity, Alien, the drop ship crash from Aliens, heck it's such a trope that sure someone has put them all together.
Actually the Set of the space ship from Pitch Black got taken off site a few years back and you can now visit it when you're driving through Coober Pedy on your way up to Darwin.
I'll keep a beer cold for ya.
I wonder if they've got NBN in that donger? If you bring a long Cat 6 cable you could play Elite in that cockpit.
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Actually the last time I was in Coober Pedy I was playing Orbiter on my laptop http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ and achieved my first ISS docking all the way from launch on full manual. Four in the morning in one of those underground motels. (Coober Pedy is an opal mining town, everyone lives half underground)
Instructions here if you are into Orbital Mechanics - http://smithplanet.com/stuff/orbiter/orbitaloperations.htm
Be warned though, ORBITER is a very deep rabbit hole.
None of the things on these panels are 'kruft'.
By the time you can manual dock at the ISS from launch, you know what all these parameters mean:
I'm getting off topic here aren't I?
Over-sharing.
Okay back on topic:
Although I can find my way to the ISS and dock without breaking anything, I never, but NEVER made a successful atmospheric re-entry in Orbiter.
Landing is and should be tough. Have a go at landing a modern MiG on an aircraft carrier in Digital Combat Simulator.
There's a carrier landing video about halfway down this page: http://flankertraining.com/ironhand/flightbasics.htm this was made in 2008 before youtube got really good so it's a download and play not a stream, but heller worth a look.
Some days I wish the base flying skills in Elite were tougher, but then I wouldn't play it much.
I can't even FA-OFF.
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Engines off, free fall
Engines off, free fall
If that kept one speeding up without limit, heck yea. But seems the flight rules don't obey gravity too well. Would've thought that hitting pedal to the metal 90-degrees downwards would keep you accelerating (when FA and such gimmicks are off, or engines outright switched off), but no - speed bleed is still ever present (and we can't blame atmospheric drag for that as none of the landable planets have any).
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Flying an Orca?