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    Challenge Hyperbolic Rendezvous

    Just flew this and found it quite fun. It took me a couple tries to get the technique down, IMFD's velocity match tool is super handy. I did it a couple different ways, I'm not sure which one is the best. It would depend on the scenario, the first is incredibly dv expensive and left me with...
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    Question Runway Positions for San Francisco Int Airport

    Just about everything you need to know about any airport is at http://www.airnav.com. The lat and long are right at the top, along the right side are links to the sectional and airport diagram. The airport diagram has a detailed layout of runways including direction and dimensions...
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    Full Flight Space Simulator

    This guy built a 737 sim in his garage using a 737 cockpit: http://www.737sim.com/Intro.htm
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    iMFD and Hohmann Transfers

    I think I may have answered some of my own questions just through playing around with the MFD. I found it much easier to configure iMFD to use MJD rather than GET times for displaying launch and intercept dates. I also played around with Tangential Transfer program some more. It seems that as...
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    iMFD and Hohmann Transfers

    I picked up Orbiter last week and dug in with zeal. I've gone through the Go Play in Space book by Bruce Irving. A wonderful piece of work that brings most of the important concepts in Orbiter right home, and you don't even need to be a rocket scientist to read it (my only comment would be to...
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