Please add Nadir and Zenith markers on the attitude ladder just like they have on real air/space craft When you are rapidly pitching up or down it is very difficult to tell when you reached +/- 90 degrees.
Nadir and Zenith markers
- Thread starter Zaphod Beeblebrox IV
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I don't think they have them on real spacecraft, piloting by hand while watching the pitch meter as you shoot for the moon isn't a thing. And once you actually get into space, well that's pretty much irrelevant, there's no up and down so it would only be useful for when you are near a planet surface, and to be honest I have spent a lot of time near planet surfaces and haven't missed that indicator at all.
My thoughts are having a means to judge precise angle of turn is essential in traditional navigation. At least if one is interested in accuracy and repeatability. I've often wondered how handy this could be to have for general mapping and to more easily mark the position of an asteroid or derelict.
What I think would be a great feature is if you could point your ship in an arbitrary direction, hit a key to store that direction as zero and than measure deviation from that with a 360 by 360 readout. To make it work properly would still require having classical presets you could toggle between like reset and Zero nav gyro to solarsystem plane/center or reference to galactic plane/core. The only thing left to decide is which way is actually up :/
What I think would be a great feature is if you could point your ship in an arbitrary direction, hit a key to store that direction as zero and than measure deviation from that with a 360 by 360 readout. To make it work properly would still require having classical presets you could toggle between like reset and Zero nav gyro to solarsystem plane/center or reference to galactic plane/core. The only thing left to decide is which way is actually up :/