DG-EX

[Doc Nobby]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHAAAA!!!

*Jumps happily through his room while on the way to moon with his brand new DG-EX*

You guys are so cool! Thanks alot for producing such high quality addons. That thing is really geat. It will be my new
baby for the next few weeks!

Guess you will improove the panel a bit more??! Ofcourse you will! 8)

Keep up the good work!!!  

[Snapear]

Hallo Zusammen
es tut mir echt leid das ich es in deutsch schreiben muss, da mein englisch etwas eingerostet ist.
Ich finde den den Deltaglider-Ex sehr gelungen und echt klasse, aber kann es sein das er nicht genug schub
entwickelt um in den Orbit zu kommen?
Und was meint Ihr zu einer zweiten Version der nur als Personentranporter konzipiert ist und keine Ladebucht hat.
Mfg
     Snappy

[McBrain]

Hallo Snapear, ich hoffe, dir macht's nichts aus, wenn ich das mal für die anderen übersetze!

->
Hello together
I'm sorry to write in German, but my English is a bit rusty.
I think the DG-EX is really great, but is it possible that it doesn't have enough thrust to get into orbit?
And what do you guys think about a second version which is only designed as a passenger transporter and doesn't
have a cargo bay?
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I haven't tried the EX yet, because my HD crashed and I have to download Orbiter again! -.-
So I can't judge the thrust capability. But I will download it when I have Orbiter.

[Doc Nobby]

Yepp!
Ziemlich schwierig in den Orbit zu kommen! 5% mehr Schub würden dem Ding gut tun!

I just managed to reach 85 km but there was not enough fuel to stay up there! So I came down again.
I suggest 5% more thrust and 5% more fuel.  8)

[Doc Nobby]

Aaaahh!

Just managed to take off from KSC and dock at ISS!

But it's very hard indeed.  

[reekchaa]

I M P R E S S I V E !

Damn challenging, too!  ...share any tips with us, Nobby?

[Doc Nobby]

Ammmn... ok!

But I have to say, that I only managed to dock ISS two times!
There was a whole bunch of luck involved!

So here are the basics:

As the manual says: Alt < 30 km Climbrate 30 / 35 m/s
                                 Alt < 60 km Climbrate 20 m/s

Now here's the trick: When reaching 60 km your trim should be set to max. Reduce your climbrate to 0 m/s.
When trim is zero again, your drag reduces and you will be able to gain speed for orbit stabilisation.

You should have about 30% fuel left. Now it's time to pray that your RInc is < 10° (some peopel do that by calculation
but i think that's boring ).

Try to reach ISS

I reached ISS with about <1% fuel the first and <2% fuel the secind time! 8)

But there are really mad guys over at m6 forum who managed to dock with >30% fuel left.

You'd better ask them how to do the job.

C Ya

[Schimz]

48% main fuel left with vectoring thrust

[McBrain]

I just downloaded it and I have to say: It looks very, very cool!!!
I especially like the exhaust visuals! They are the best I've ever seen in Orbiter!!!
And I got to orbit with 32.3 % fuel left. But it took about half an orbit to actually pick up the needed speed.
So it's still underpowered.

But it's really good work! Thank you!

[Krytom]

I must say the exhausts are beautiful, however there is no smoke trail. You could say that the fuel used doesn't
create smoke if you wanted to, but smoke trails are nice.

[McBrain]

hehe

I got 25% fuel left on my second try. But I used hover...

[reekchaa]

Damn Nice Glider.

Well balanced, fun & simple technique to get it up there.  Really responsive in the upper strat.