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orbital flight is pretty darn cheap on the moon compared to earth. (if I overshoot my base on earth by more than 750KM, then I'd forget about landing there and just go in the wild..) however. It's still just too much to waste even on the moon, because If you're like me, you didn't overshoot by a little, so you want to get
DocHoliday wrote:Actually your straight-down technique works quite well on moon especially combined with the dg3's autoland autopilot You just need to calculate how much time it will take you to brake to a halt, turn the dg around and burn rubber. You will start losing altitude so you can engage the autoland feature when you feel the creeps by that time you forward velocity should be down to manageable values Also check out the Mars tutorial. It might help you with the moon too. It's not up to date, but so what