Question AFCS for Shuttle Fleet and Orbiter 2010 (no runways)

[-Pv-]

Did searches on AFCS.
I have the latest AFCS distributed with STS Payloads 2010 for Shuttle Fleet 4.8. The documentation claims it is supposed to work in Orbiter 2010.

As others have observed in the few two to three year old posts I've seen on this subject, the LandSiteTable.ini data doesn't display in the UI although I have that file in the root of the Orbiter instance location I use for Shuttle Fleet and ISS.
Is AFCS intolerant of installation folder names, or just plain permanently broken?

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[Cras]

Did you follow the steps required to get it to work?

It requires changing a line in your orbiter.cfg

Once you do that, it will work perfectly.

 

[-Pv-]

Thanks. After much searching, found that iddy biddy screen capture:
EchoAllParams = TRUE

Would have been a lot nicer to just present it as text so it would be searchable.

Works now. Nice.
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---------- Post added 04-04-13 at 11:09 AM ---------- Previous post was 04-03-13 at 03:52 PM ----------

After some period of time, the AFCS range text display at the top of the screen becomes blank with a blinking cursor.

The only way I've been able to get it back so far is to exit the sim, shut down the Launcher, restart it and restore the autosave.
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[PhantomCruiser]

It does that for me when I forget to stow the high gain antenna, pressing [CTRL] to stow it causes AFCS to close out. The only way to get it back is like you say... Exit out and start the current scenario.

 

[-Pv-]

I agree. When I was careful to have the KU stored and door closed before I start the AFCS UI for the first time, it behaves.

I'm working on fine tuning the ACFS profile ini so it tracks the TRAJ display profile correctly. As it is, it's too slow near the terminal area and so close to stall, the program is aborting the HAC and flying straight in. I'm correcting that.
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[Cras]

I agree. When I was careful to have the KU stored and door closed before I start the AFCS UI for the first time, it behaves.

I'm working on fine tuning the ACFS profile ini so it tracks the TRAJ display profile correctly. As it is, it's too slow near the terminal area and so close to stall, the program is aborting the HAC and flying straight in. I'm correcting that.
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Yeah, I have noticed that as well that ACFS loves to kill too much energy prior to TAEM.

Love to see what you come up with for a more accurate re-entry profile. Feel free to PM me if you want some help testing it out.

 

[Ripley]

...I'm working on fine tuning the ACFS profile ini so it tracks the TRAJ display profile correctly...

So I assume that this is no good for O2010P1?
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3760"]AFCS INI for AutoFCS and Shuttle Fleet[/ame]

 

[Cras]

I will try it out tonight when I finish my current VSA flight, so I will post what I saw tonight.

---------- Post added 04-06-13 at 12:52 AM ---------- Previous post was 04-05-13 at 08:54 PM ----------

Seems to work better than the default one. I had more energy on the TAEM, was able to more easily fly a HAC and stayed on the GPCMFDs Trac all the way in.

I flew manual at around Mach 2.

 

[Ripley]

I'm totally new to SF and AFCS, sorry to ask such a dumb question:

are these configuration info still good for O2010P1?
http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/AutoFCS

 

[Interceptor]

Hi Ripley, yes those are the ones I use also,and I don't have any problems with them.:thumbup:

 

[kerlix]

So this is bringing up an old subject with some of the same questions. I apologize for that.


Okay. Here it goes...

I initially installed AFCS as per the wiki. But then I noticed that when looking at MapMFD, the bases were all shifted slightly south-southwest of their actual locations. Canaveral was just off the south-western coast of Florida and the other bases appeared similarly moved. Do the coordinates in the wiki still coordinate correctly with Orbiter 2010-P1? Perhaps some things have changed between versions?

You can see that the coordinates are slightly different (default vs. wiki recommended).


2nd: I DID make the EchoAllParams= TRUE change as suggested over and over again. However, I still do not get any bases to appear in the drop down menu. BUT, I do get the message across the top of the screen telling me that the crossrange is too far. Too far from where? I'm not sure because I can't exactly choose a base, as mentioned above.




Please bear in mind that this is my first real try with SFv4.8. I'm still trying to figure out how to get everything working properly (aka get into the manual and configure payloads, actually figure out correct launch windows for ISS intercept and then actually do it, etc.).

Thanks for any advice and your patience.


EDIT: i'm currently at work but I think I may have figured out a solution. I'll just change the EchoAllParams line to TRUE, then COPY the base location from within the config\Earth\Bases folder to the Earth.cfg file in the main folder and comment out the location as per the wiki.

Hopefully that will get me back on track with both A.) a populated list in AFCS, and B.) bases that are in the correct location according to MapMFD.

I guess my last question would be: Will AFCS be able to use the standard default Orbiter base coordinates for guidance? Or do they NEED to be the slightly different coordinates that the wiki has? I just don't want to get it working, have it fly a perfect reentry only to have it perform a HAC and landing in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[Cras]

AFCS just needs to know where your runways actually are, since that is what it is shooting for. My guess is you are looking coordinates for Orbiter 2006, but whatever it is, don't worry about it, AFCS needs to know where the runways are in your sim, you dont need to fudge, it will shoot for the threshold and do a pretty darn good job at it as well.

As for getting your payload bay loaded up with goodies, the manual does an excellent job at covering all the various attachment points, which ones can be deployed or are static, and how to manipulate them so they sit in the right spot.