PhantomCruiser
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I re-entered and landed Donamy's JasonLEO manually! At the runway of my choosing to boot!:woohoo:
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I don't even know how to re-enter a spaceplane other than the XR2, XR5, and the Shuttle (Fleet) with AutoFCS.
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We share the same difficulty...:dry:
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It helps sometimes to cuss a lot.
I used Basesync to ensure of my alignment to Canaveral, then used MapMFD and SurfaceMFD.
I spent a lot of time at a 90 degree bank angle (+/-10 degrees), and kept an eye on vertical sink rate. Look forward to spending some time in the 40-50Km altitude range to bleed off speed. Roll left and ride for a while, then roll over to the right for a while. The target heading would be anywhere from right on to 40 degrees left or right depending on which way I was rolled over. The bank angle helps determine sink rate; and it seems I spent a lot of time with full up elevator; if I let off on it the ship would try to flatten out and my ground track would have me overshooting.
I arrived a little bit too high and hot (fast), even after a HAC turn (should have turned wider), but I didn't think I had enough to make it to the CCAFS runway, and it looked shorter anyways. But I got her down, wheel-stop just short of the far end of the tarmac.
I think the trick is, well, practice for one, and the willingness to just do it until you get it. And avoid time accel at all costs. Even x10 can mess you up beyond belief.
I used Basesync to ensure of my alignment to Canaveral, then used MapMFD and SurfaceMFD.
I spent a lot of time at a 90 degree bank angle (+/-10 degrees), and kept an eye on vertical sink rate. Look forward to spending some time in the 40-50Km altitude range to bleed off speed. Roll left and ride for a while, then roll over to the right for a while. The target heading would be anywhere from right on to 40 degrees left or right depending on which way I was rolled over. The bank angle helps determine sink rate; and it seems I spent a lot of time with full up elevator; if I let off on it the ship would try to flatten out and my ground track would have me overshooting.
I arrived a little bit too high and hot (fast), even after a HAC turn (should have turned wider), but I didn't think I had enough to make it to the CCAFS runway, and it looked shorter anyways. But I got her down, wheel-stop just short of the far end of the tarmac.
I think the trick is, well, practice for one, and the willingness to just do it until you get it. And avoid time accel at all costs. Even x10 can mess you up beyond belief.
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mojoey
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You mean Earth, right?
Just gonna geek out here for a bit.
Two weeks ago I migrated my GnuCash accounts from the default xml to MySQL. The two main reasons I migrated to MySQL were better portability/backup capability and easier, more flexible customized reporting.
Earlier this week, I successfully migrated my accounts db from Linux to Windows. I hated to move it from Linux, but had no choice due to the upgrade to Raring breaking wifi on my laptop. Using it offline and needing to have a second machine/device handy to check my pending transactions at the bank was getting to be a pain.
Tonight I got the odbc for MySQL installed and connected Excel. Finally, I have the visibility to my accounts that I was wanting.
So, in just a few days I've achieved both my goals, and it was far easier than I had hoped.
Two weeks ago I migrated my GnuCash accounts from the default xml to MySQL. The two main reasons I migrated to MySQL were better portability/backup capability and easier, more flexible customized reporting.
Earlier this week, I successfully migrated my accounts db from Linux to Windows. I hated to move it from Linux, but had no choice due to the upgrade to Raring breaking wifi on my laptop. Using it offline and needing to have a second machine/device handy to check my pending transactions at the bank was getting to be a pain.
Tonight I got the odbc for MySQL installed and connected Excel. Finally, I have the visibility to my accounts that I was wanting.
So, in just a few days I've achieved both my goals, and it was far easier than I had hoped.
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Saw the new Star Trek movie tonight. Not bad, although it had one whopper of an inaccuracy about orbital mechanics :facepalm:
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Didn't you know? A vessel in space must be under constant unerring acceleration in order to keep from falling out of space.
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Well that explains North Korea's problem..
BruceJohnJennerLawso said:
Well actually to Star Trek vessels orbital mechanics does not apply very much.
It's due to their warp drive making the ship have almost no mass (I think) but when it goes off-line bad things happen.
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Well, there think the whole world is round, but only exist North Korea in it and because that, the world is tiny.
Pyongyang orbits, yep...
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The bad thing about knowing orbital physics when you watch a sci-fi movie like Star Trek is you have to critize how bad the realism is.
Total PC failure: PSU freaked out and sent probably insane voltage into HDDs and optical drives.
System installed on 250GB I had lying around.
I hope data can be restored from fried disks.
Recovereing in progres...
System installed on 250GB I had lying around.
I hope data can be restored from fried disks.
Recovereing in progres...
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Unless your Drives are smoking the PSU probably burnt out its internal components before is did any damage to your data. worse case you would have to transfer the discs to a different drive (get a professional data recovery firm to do it). Best case the drives are perfectly fine.
