Question HUD in an MFD

[RAF Blackace]

Sometimes it would be nice to see the HUD information when your locked in the spacecraft. I must be crazy I know, but I would like to try a full manual AMSO mission with only the windows to look out of. Problem is I really need to know the angles and piper the HUD gives me so it is not practical for lunar landing or Saturn launch.

Is there any MFD that mimics the HUD display ? or if not, any idea how I can get the HUD information shown in one ?

Thanks in advance.

---------- Post added at 08:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:09 PM ----------

Ah. I think I have found the MFD I need. Attitude MFD gives the velocity vectors, so this duplicates the information the HUD displays.

---------- Post added at 09:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:27 PM ----------

Nope. Attitude MFD works for lunar landing, but it does not help for Saturn Launch when I need to keep the angle of the launch vehicle fairly close to the surface HUD velocity vector or the dynamic pressure destroys the vehicle. The velocity vectors shown in the attitude MFD are the orbit HUD velocity vectors and not the surface HUD velocity vectors.

Still searching.

 

[Rtyh-12]

Maybe the default Surface MFD can help, together with the Attitude MFD if necessary.

Sorry if I didn't understand anything you posted, but I've got a cold and my head spins around. wned:

Edit: This assumes you want a Surface HUD MFD. For that it works. Moach's Troposcope MFD will do it for docking and orbit.

 

[Moach]

i find myself in a similar predicament every now and then....

there's info shown on the HUD (particularly when doing rendezvous/docking) which you cannot get anywhere else...

and i find it troublesome that this makes it quite difficult to align the RVEL vector with the target when flying anything that requires you to point the nose somewhere else to make an effectice burn (like STS and it's realistically underpowered OMS thrusters)...

if you turn the nose away, you lose the info on the HUD... so how can you tell that you've burned properly to align your vector towards the target?

you can't....


so i devised a whole new MFD concept (which i call "TroposcopeMFD") which extends the HUD functionality to cover situations of that sort :hmm:

it's far from complete... the current version is a rought proof-of-concept that only shows a "prograde" marker in ecliptical frame... but it works, and eventually it'll do all the things i want it to


'till then, i agree with the OP... theres a situational-awareness gap that no MFD has filled, so far

 

[RAF Blackace]

Moach.

I agree about the missing MFD, most of these situations revolve around knowing where that prograde piper is. But it would be nice if the Surface HUD direction piper is also, bear in mind they are not the same. I tried a full flight locked in the cockpit and the information I did not have and had no way of knowing was the surface HUD direction piper at Saturn Launch, and not knowing the docking velocity vector during docking.

Still, like you said, this Troposcope MFD at least gives access to one of those parameters. Good work !!

 

[Moach]

Moach.

I agree about the missing MFD, most of these situations revolve around knowing where that prograde piper is. But it would be nice if the Surface HUD direction piper is also, bear in mind they are not the same. I tried a full flight locked in the cockpit and the information I did not have and had no way of knowing was the surface HUD direction piper at Saturn Launch, and not knowing the docking velocity vector during docking.

Still, like you said, this Troposcope MFD at least gives access to one of those parameters. Good work !!

im working now on getting it to show a tuned XPDR target and RVEL too, but right now, the G42-200 WIP-2 is priority... so close, can't stop now