No Runway at Overberg

[Clavius0712]

Hi all,

I've finally mastered manual reentry in the Delta Glider IV but have a question regarding the target surface bases for Earth.

In my last flight I undocked the DGIV from the ISS, turned prograde and performed a deorbit burn with my retros, watching Aerobrake MFD the whole time to see where I would end up landing. I didn't really care where as I was just practicing reentry but was pleased to see that my landing point was very close to Overberg base in S. Africa.

I performed a nice manual reentry with the help of Aerobrake MFD, setting AoA and bank angle just right for a landing at Overberg. However, when I got there, I couldn't see any runway whatsoever.

Are all the bases in Orbiter supposed to have a runway or are they just convenient place names with no actual place to land? I was quite disappointed to come out of reentry and find my runway missing!

Any help much appreciated as always.

 

[Urwumpe]

Are all the bases in Orbiter supposed to have a runway or are they just convenient place names with no actual place to land? I was quite disappointed to come out of reentry and find my runway missing!

No, most bases in Orbiters standard installation have no runways, and only consist of an invisible vertical landing pad. If you need a runway there, you need either an add-on (which does not exist yet) or edit your Overberg.cfg to contain runway, lights and ILS.

 

[astrosammy]

Ok, here are some of the default bases with runways and surface tiles:
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3862"]Default Base Enhancement[/ame]

 

[Clavius0712]

Thanks,

I've installed the new runways and will check them out soon.