I seem to have come along in a transitional period as far as interplanetary stuff goes. Maybe we'll decide to do something new for the Mars chapter and perhaps even add a chapter on add-on modeling. I'll be in the UK in April on business and I'm hoping to get together with Andy and Mark Paton some evening. It's a lot of work but we will look into it. Orbiter is still the 2006 version, but there are many changes in add-ons, web sites, etc. We are considering whether to do a new edition of GPIS. You can get LandMFD on Andy's Virtual Spaceflight site here. It does work in Mars' thin atmosphere, but it's a bit marginal. It's true the IMFD interface has changed somewhat, but I think that if you install and use v4.2.1 to follow the steps in the Mars chapter, you will still learn useful concepts that will largely apply to v5.1 (Rob Denny's v5 video tutorial is very good - I tried it and reviewed it in my blog recently).Īs far as LandMFD, this is truly a masterpiece by the late "LazyD" though it is really for no-atmosphere bodies like the Moon. Jarmo has continued to improve IMFD, but he still makes v4.2.1 available on his web site. Regarding the Mars chapter, we added it for the 2006 release in May 2006 (the September P1 patch didn't change much that would affect the book) when IMFD v4.2.1 was current, and we haven't updated the book since. ![]() Thanks for the recommendation and feedback on "Go Play In Space" - Andy and I are really glad that it's been helpful for some people learning Orbiter. Thus, you either need a different auto-landing MFD, or you need to learn how to do it manually. It never fires the main engines, just the hovers, so instead of deorbiting and landing, you end up doing outside loops while still up in orbit. But this version doesn't work as advertised, for some reason. This is hard to find-doesn't seem to be at Orbit Hangar, only at the link shown in the GPiS introduction. Second, GPiS wants you to use LandMFD for final approach. I'd recommend instead looking at rdenny's video tutorial for IMFD5 (which still doesn't quite match 5.1e, but is much closer than GPiS). But the current version is 5.1e, which does many things rather differently and thus doesn't match "Go Play in Space". That part, I'm afraid, has been made obsolete by changes to the add-ons it recommends using.įirst off, it wants you to use IMFD 4.21. ![]() As a brand new noob who has recently spent a LOT of time using and perusing this book, I have to say it's been a big help, up until the part about going to Mars.
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