Orbiter 2010 - Mars Runway Landing Challenge - Attempt 3
7This video was recorded Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Playlist of all attempts: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPu_SHPaJzs5ooOPfW9xvROOnjuSLFsak
In this third attempt, I decided to go around Mars the long way to see if it would be faster. My thinking was that if I didn't dip too far down into the atmosphere to do that aggressive 180 degree turn, I would be able to keep the high velocity for a lot longer. My logic was sound, but it didn't turn out to be any faster. It takes about 55 minutes either way you go.
I have successfully landed on the runway at Olympus and met the requirements of this challenge (which are to land with a vertical speed of less than 10 m/s, and a horizontal speed of less than 500 m/s), but I have not yet done it as a complete flight from start to finish in 1 take.
The one time I succeeded was after resuming from a save point more than a dozen times!
I want to complete the challenge from start to finish in 1 take and I won't give up until I do. This is my third attempt at completing the challenge from start to finish in 1 take.
It took me about 55 minutes to fly this challenge from start to finish.
There's no audio commentary for this video because I knew I would likely have to record this flight several times before I would be successful. I didn't want to bother commentating as I flew if it was just going to end in a failure.
Since most of the 1 hour flight is just a bunch of gliding, I imported the video into an editor and sped up the bulk of the flight by a factor of 10 so that the video would be a reasonable length.
Get the challenge from the official thread on Orbiter-Forum.
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=30173
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