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Funny ooops moments

it´s not soo bad, you survive !! :lol:

a fully loaded glider with fuel would explode in a crash in real life :lol:
 
Adam said:
My bigest ooops moment was aerobrakeing over moon :D


this is my first post on that forum btw.
Hi everyone
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I just tried to aerobrake over the Moon today. I was tired and wasn't too sure what I was doing. Ended up getting slung off into deep space... :(

I actually had another "oops" moment on a DGIV mission I undertook just after that foiled attempt. I loaded up four passengers and decided that it would be cool if I included a nice payload to go along for the ride. I selected the H2O container because it looked pretty cool. Unfortunately I didn't realize that this particular container weighted 3x as much as the oxygen or nitrogen I usually loaded on. By the time I had closed my orbit around the moon, I was at about 2% fuel. Launched a rescue mission in a Coast Guard DGIV and successfully took the passengers and gave my stranded DG enough fuel to make it to Brighton.

This is where things went wrong. I recently started using the LolaMFD for Lunar landings, so I wasn't familiar with all the buttons and knobs. I selected the "align with base" option for my coast guard and then proceeded to fix my orbit in the other DG. I went back to the coast guard and found that I was hurtling down to the surface of the moon very quickly. Apparently Lola has a few issues that I wasn't previously aware of. I couldn't correct my orbit in time and everyone on board was killed, but I did manage to take the other DG to Brighton with no problems.
 
Just made an -15m/s crash with DG-IV.
MaxG was !!!152G!!! AND THE WHOLE CREW SURVIVED!!!
 
I just Crashed my DG-IV Spy plane in to the ground and then Bounced of in to deep space at about 8 AU a second
 
Yep that will work but thats not fun Who doesent want to crash in to the moon at 100.000x Time acceleration ?
 
We have main engine start ! The clock is running !

ooooopstu3.jpg


!!!!!!!!!
ooooopsaac7.jpg


!@$@%!!!!!
ooooops1vw0.jpg


Launch Control ? This is Bill down at the vehicle assembly building. We just found a bunch of these bolts lying around down here. Did you need those ?
shuttleooops2jo3.jpg
http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/6862/ooooopsaac7.jpg
 
Just today I had a simple mission with the DG-IV:
Launch into Martian orbit
Deploy a weather sattelite
Perform a scientific fly-by of Phobos
Perform a scientific fly-by of Deimos
Land safely
Needless to say, everything exept the final touchdown went perfectly
>.<
/\
 
Made a nearly perfect approach to the runway in the DGIV. The only problem? Forgot to put the landing gear down. :dry:

I actually forget to do that quite a lot... Strangely I never had a problem with it in FS.
 
Today I was on the way to Moon with DG-IV. I turned off the hover and main engines after the TLI Burn. A few hours later I wanted to do a correction burn with the IMFD Autoburn function. After many unsuccesful corrections I found out that what I had to turn on the engines again. Later, as I was making a direct descend to the lunar northpole, I forgot that the Moon has no atmosphere. The engines were not powerful enough to save me from this deadly trajectory and I crashed with a vertical speed of -500 m/s.
 
About a year ago I was doing an experimental flight with DGIII. The idea was to complete an orbit that had an apogee of 500.000 km. Simple enough to make the burn and make sure that the moon wasn't going to get in the way.

And then I waited. The orbit took 14.7 days to complete and since I don't use time compression, it took me several months just to get those in-game days to go by since I don't have a dedicated machine for Orbiter.

No problem during the flight, but I was a bit worried about my fuel reserves and decided that I'd have to be really, really careful about my orbit circularisation burn. I didn't want to do a direct re-entry since I didn't think that I could pull that off.

Unfortunately, I had forgotten my orbit MFD to the wrong setting (seems to be a recurring occurence here) and realised too late that I had burned for too long and was already coming for a steep re-entry. I had to make a corrective burn quickly and was able to get it back to a decent orbit in LEO. My fuel was down to 0.2%.

No worries, I thought. I'll just take another DGIII to resque the crew. But suddenly I came to find that I had loaded the wrong scenario those months ago and the nearest DGIII available was in Mars. No hope for resque, my crew was doomed.

Those times really make you wish for a ground control...

A few days after that, the computer broke. I wonder if it had a connection?
 
I was flying AMSO, and just completed reentry...drogues, mains, etc.

I switched to a different window while waiting for splashdown. A few minutes later, I switched back to find the command module with fully deployed main parachutes way above the earth.

I posted a screenshot here:

http://orbiter-forum.com/showpost.php?p=26337&postcount=322


I have this saved as a scenario. If anyone wants a copy, PM me.
 
NukeET said:
I was flying AMSO, and just completed reentry...drogues, mains, etc.

I switched to a different window while waiting for splashdown. A few minutes later, I switched back to find the command module with fully deployed main parachutes way above the earth.

I posted a screenshot here:

http://orbiter-forum.com/showpost.php?p=26337&postcount=322


I have this saved as a scenario. If anyone wants a copy, PM me.
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Hi NukeET,

Since a long time, I suspect Orbiter to not run the simulation properly, if Orbiter don't have the focus and/or is minimized on the workbench bar. In your case, the command module was "catapulted" into space, because it was found UNDER Earth surface by the simulation.

Here is an other illustration of this suspicion: Start scenario "Apollo 11 step 01", press "J" as usually to start the launch sequence, wait until arms retract and vapor smoke start, now minimize Orbiter (Alt-TAB), wait about 1 minute and finally, restore Orbiter.

This is what you will see:

Orbiter_ooops1.jpg



Does this mean we loose gravity ?

Why smoke do not discipate ?

In the same background, if you do the same kind of switching during Lunar landing, you won't probably found the LM landed properly on the Moon.

ACS
 
Yesterday i was on orbiter i launched The Fleet 4.0 Endevour, Pressed
"T" The orbiter tipped Foreward (My cam was pointed at the shuttle from front weiw) it tipped towards me, I jettisoned the tank/SRB's and the shuttle went flying into space at a 45 Degree angle.

Try This Launch and click t to its MAX. You will end up in space spinning. Go to .10 and it will be fast!
 
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