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Fuck airplanes
Fast forward is a tool too strong for the Game and God, yet yield it once more I will, because worse case scenario there's always shitfuck14. That time I'll hit normal speed again on time, surely...
unfortunately for me my rockets are always faster than me ability to button mash , so shitfuck14 it is
Use Kerbal Alarm Clock to set timers to pull you out of warp before maneuvers or SOI changes.
Landing a probe on Eeloo: tricky but doable
Building a plane that can land without crashing: literally impossible
SSTOs (spaceplanes) are the final boss of KSP. Landing your first one will take at least 100 quick save/loads.
Edit: Planes are probably just as hard. I never flew regular planes because I skipped straight to spaceplanes.
I'll just keep researching KSPI nuclear engines until I can do propulsive SSTOs
propulsive SSTOs
You mean one that can fly in space too?
I prefer to keep ships specialized, so my SSTOs just get passengers and cargo to Kerbin's space station right above the atmosphere. Then another craft can take it from there.
I mean ones that don't rely on that "lift" nonsense and get to the orbital transfer station through good honest thrust to weight ratio over 1
In stock you can make a working SSTO with one RAPIER engine, a fuel tank, monoprop tank, some intakes and a rocket capsule. Last time I flew this configuration I would get to altitude with about 5% fuel remaining, do circularization, station rendezvous, and deorbiting with monoprop, and then land tail-down on that last sip of fuel.
Planes are easier with Ferram's IMO, mine always end up looking like MIG 21s and SU 27s.
Just gotta have the appropriate number of control surfaces (two on wingtips for roll, one on vertical stabilizer for yaw, to more behind main wings for pitch, you can try more exotic configurations if you want but this is the most simple that works 90% of the time), then dial in the sensitivity if you're flying with WASD. Takes a couple test flights but it's totally doable, if you want an "easy mode" then forget about landing and strap a bunch of parachutes to the thing for when you're done with it (I do this when I'm too lazy to do a proper approach).
edit: oh and FAR's air brakes are another easy way to land - just set all of your control surfaces as brakes, go slow over the runway, and trigger them all while killing your engine. If you're only dropping 10m or so you'll be fine.
I added a bunch more planets and moons past Eeloo to land on but I still can't fly a plane
Joystick helps.
If wasd plus hnijkl is good enough for orbital maneuvering it should be good enough for anything
Welp time to play KSP again. Do you have a deep space network set up yet?
I've got a geostationary trio around Kerbin, and similar trios around Mun and Minmus. I don't have any dedicated relay infrastructure outside Kerbin's SOI yet, but most of my planetary probes are incidental relays.
The one en route to Jool served to keep 100% comms uptime on my Duna/Ike orbital exploration probe, then I parked that probe in a Molniya-ish orbit of Duna to get it peeking over the ecliptic after I got all the science I could with it.
My next few launches are going to be putting relay networks and scansats on everything in the inner system while my Mun and Minmus stations do their science lab thing.
I've got a geostationary trio around Kerbin
You mean you have three satellites all holding hands together after a couple time warps 
Kerbal Engineer Redux helps match orbital periods a lot more carefully. Then either setting the engine to 0.5% max thrust or having RCS lets you actually execute the numbers it tells you you need.
that sounds like a lot of maintenance missions and tedium. I like my solution of flooding the zone with redundant satellites that are a consistent 90% useful
When you actually match the periods right it doesn't need maintenance
in my experience you can have the orbital periods matching exactly for as many decimal points as it displays and one duna mission later it's all fucked up no matter what
My solution is to have ~6 highly irregular orbits at different longitudes. 90% of the time they're going to be way up at the slow useful part of their orbit.
Heck yeah that’s awesome.
The only use for the space plane hanger is to plan out space stations
is this modded? I've been meaning to get into heavily modded ultrarealistic KSP for a while
I recommend the Realistic Progression-1 pack if you enjoy ~~torture~~ challenge and basically learning KSP from scratch
Yeah, modded all to shit and back. I started with a modlist from some youtuber and I've been adding more mods every couple days since.
The list as it stands today, exported from CKAN: (edit spoilered for size)
[x] Science! Continued (xScienceContinued 6.0.3.1)
Astronomer's Visual Pack (AstronomersVisualPack 3:v4.13)
Astronomer's Visual Pack-8k Textures (AVP-8kTextures v1.13)
AT Utils (AT-Utils v1.10.1)
B9 Part Switch (B9PartSwitch v2.21.0.1)
Better Early Tree (BetterEarlyTree 1.0.2)
BetterTimeWarpContinued (BetterTimeWarpCont 2.3.13.1)
CameraController - Next (CameraControllerNext v1.0.5)
ClickThrough Blocker (ClickThroughBlocker 1:2.1.10.22)
CommNet Antennas Consumptor (CommNetAntennasConsumptor 3.5.8)
Community Category Kit (CommunityCategoryKit v112.0.1)
Community Resource Pack (CommunityResourcePack v112.0.1)
Community Tech Tree (CommunityTechTree 1:3.4.5)
Community Terrain Texture Pack (CommunityTerrainTexturePack 1:1.0.5)
Configurable Containers (ConfigurableContainers 2.6.2.1)
Connected Living Space (ConnectedLivingSpace v2.0.2.0)
Contract Configurator (ContractConfigurator v2.11.2.0)
Contract Pack: Clever Sats (ContractConfigurator-CleverSats 1.4)
Contract Pack: Constellations (ContractConfigurator-Constellations 0.8)
Contract Pack: Exploration Plus (ContractConfigurator-ExplorationPlus 2.0.1)
Cryo Tanks (CryoTanks 1.6.7)
Cryo Tanks Core (CryoTanks-Core 1.6.7)
Cryogenic Engines (CryoEngines 1:2.0.8)
Custom Barn Kit (CustomBarnKit 1.1.22.0)
Deferred (Deferred 1.2.6.0)
Deployable Engines Plugin (DeployableEngines 1.3.1)
Dynamic Battery Storage (DynamicBatteryStorage 2:2.3.7.0)
Easy Vessel Switch (EVS) (EasyVesselSwitch 2.3)
Endurance (EnduranceSpaceExplorationSystem V1.13)
Environmental Visual Enhancements Redux (EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements 3:1.11.7.2)
Extended information about scientific experiments in VAB (ScienceSituationInfo 1:1.3.5)
Filter Extensions - Plugin (FilterExtensions 3.2.9)
Final Frontier (FinalFrontier 1.10.0-3485)
Firefly (Firefly 1.0.5)
FireflyAPI (FireflyAPI 1.0.0.0)
Firespitter Core (FirespitterCore v7.17)
ForScience! (ForScienceUpdated 1.6.0)
FreeIva (FreeIva 0.2.20.0)
Global Construction (GroundConstruction 2.7.1)
Global Construction Core (GroundConstruction-Core 2.7.1)
Grannus Ribbons from GEP (Grannus-RibbonPack-FromGEP 1.2.8)
Hangar Extender (HangerExtenderExtended 3.6.0.2)
Harmony 2 (Harmony2 2.2.1.0)
Heat Control (HeatControl 0.6.2)
Hide Empty Tech Tree Nodes (HideEmptyTechNodes 1.3.2)
Improved Tree Engine Placement (ImprovedTreeEnginePlacement v1.4.0)
Interstellar Fuel Switch (InterstellarFuelSwitch 3.30.0)
Interstellar Fuel Switch Core (InterstellarFuelSwitch-Core 3.30.0)
Interstellar Redistributable (InterstellarRedistributable 1.4)
JSI Advanced Transparent Pods (JSIAdvancedTransparentPods V0.1.24.0)
Kerbal Alarm Clock (KerbalAlarmClock v3.14.0.0)
Kerbal Attachment System (KAS 1.12)
Kerbal Engineer Redux (KerbalEngineerRedux 1.1.9.5)
Kerbal Inventory System (KIS 1.29)
Kerbal Joint Reinforcement Continued (KerbalJointReinforcementContinued v3.8.6.0)
Kerbal Planetary Base Systems (KerbalPlanetaryBaseSystems v1.6.16)
Kerbal Powers Core (KerbalPowersCore v1.0)
Kerbal Powers Interstellar (KerbalPowersInterstellar v1.0.1)
Kerbal Space Transport System (KSTS 2.0.4)
Konstruction (Konstruction v112.0.1)
Kopernicus Planetary System Modifier (Kopernicus 2:release-1.12.1-227)
KrakenScience (KrakenScience 1.0)
KSP AVC (KSP-AVC 1.4.1.9)
KSP Interstellar Extended (KSPInterstellarExtended 1.29.6)
KSPBurst Compiler (KSPBurst v1.5.5.2)
KSPBurst Plugins (KSPBurst-Lite v1.5.5.2)
KW Rocketry Rebalanced (KWRocketryRebalanced 3.2.7.4)
MOAR Station Science (MOARStationScience v2.6.2.1)
ModularFlightIntegrator (ModularFlightIntegrator 1.2.10.0)
Module Manager (ModuleManager 4.2.3)
Moldavite Machines (MoldaviteMachines 1.4)
Navball Docking Alignment Indicator CE-2 (NavballDockAlignIndCE 1.1.1.3)
Near Future Construction (NearFutureConstruction 1.3.3)
Near Future Electrical (NearFutureElectrical 2.0.1)
Near Future Electrical - Decaying RTGs (NearFutureElectrical-DecayingRTGs 2.0.1)
Near Future Electrical Core (NearFutureElectrical-Core 2.0.1)
Near Future IVA Props (NearFutureProps 1:0.7.2)
Near Future Launch Vehicles (NearFutureLaunchVehicles 2.2.2)
Near Future Propulsion (NearFuturePropulsion 1.3.6)
Near Future Solar (NearFutureSolar 1.3.3)
Near Future Solar Core (NearFutureSolar-Core 1.3.3)
Near Future Spacecraft (NearFutureSpacecraft 1.4.6)
OPM All-in-One KSPedia Delta-V Map (OPMAllinOneKSPediaDeltaVMap 1.0.1)
Outer Planets Mod (OuterPlanetsMod 2:2.2.11)
Parallax Continued (ParallaxContinued 1.0.0)
Parallax Continued Planet Textures (ParallaxContinued-Planet-Textures 1.0.0)
Parallax Continued Scatter Textures (ParallaxContinued-Scatter-Textures 1.0.1)
Parallax Continued Terrain Textures (ParallaxContinued-Terrain-Textures 1.0.0)
Patch Manager (PatchManager 0.0.17.6)
PersistentRotation Upgraded (PersistentRotationUpgraded 1.9.2)
Precise Node (PreciseNode 1.2.12)
RasterPropMonitor (RasterPropMonitor 1:v1.0.2)
RasterPropMonitor Core (RasterPropMonitor-Core 1:v1.0.2)
Rational Resources (RationalResources 3.3.2)
ReStock (ReStock 1.5.1)
ReStock+ (ReStockPlus 1.5.1)
Rocket Sound Enhancement (RocketSoundEnhancement 0.9.11)
Rocket Sound Enhancement - Default (RocketSoundEnhancement-Config-Default 1.3.0)
RosterManager (RosterManager 0.3.0.1)
SCANsat (SCANsat v20.4)
Scatterer (Scatterer 3:v0.0878)
Scatterer Config for Outer Planets Mod (ScattererOPM v1.0.1)
Scatterer Default Config (Scatterer-config 3:v0.0878)
Scatterer Sunflare (Scatterer-sunflare 3:v0.0878)
ScrapYard (ScrapYard 2.2.2.1-release)
Shabby (Shabby 0.4.2)
Shuttle Lifting Body (ShuttleLiftingBodyCormorantAeronology 1.12.5b)
Singularity (Singularity 0.991)
Solar Science (SOL) by Snoopy20111 (SolarScience 1:v1.3.0.0-release)
SpaceTux Library (SpaceTuxLibrary 0.0.9)
SpaceY Heavy Lifters (SYL) by NecroBones (SpaceY-Lifters 1:1.9.99.2-prerelease)
Stock Alarm Clock Disabler (StockAlarmClockDisabler v1.0.1)
Stockalike Station Parts Expansion Redux (StationPartsExpansionRedux 2.0.11)
Stockalike Station Parts Expansion Redux - Internal Spaces (StationPartsExpansionRedux-IVAs 2.0.11)
Strategia (Strategia 1.8.0)
Supplementary Electric Engines (SupplementaryElectricEngines 1.3.2)
System Heat (SystemHeat 0.8.2)
Tantares LV - Soviet Rockets (NewTantaresLV v16.2)
Textures Unlimited (TexturesUnlimited 1.6.4.30)
The Janitor's Closet (JanitorsCloset 0.3.9)
Throttle Controlled Avionics (ThrottleControlledAvionics v3.8.0.1)
Toolbar (Toolbar 1:1.8.1.2)
Toolbar Controller (ToolbarController 1:0.1.9.14)
TooManyOrbits (TooManyOrbits 1.1.7.1)
Transfer Window Planner (TransferWindowPlanner v1.8.0.0)
TriggerAu Flags (TriggerAu-Flags v2.11.0.0)
TweakScale Rescaled (TweakScaleRescaled 3.2.4)
TweakScale Rescaled Redistributable (TweakScaleRescaled-Redist 3.2.4)
Universal Storage II Finalized (UniversalStorage2 4.0.2.2)
USI Asteroid Recycling Technologies (USI-ART 1:v112.0.1)
USI Core (USI-Core v112.0.1)
USI Exploration Pack (USI-EXP v112.0.1)
USI Freight Transport Technologies (USI-FTT v112.0.1)
USI Kolonization Systems (MKS/OKS) (UKS 1:v112.0.1)
USI Life Support (USI-LS v112.0.1)
USI Tools (USITools v112.0.1)
VAB Organizer (VABOrganizer 1.1.0)
VaporCones (VaporCones 1.2.0)
Vessel Viewer Continued (VesselView 2:0.8.9)
VesselView-UI-RasterPropMonitor (VesselView-UI-RasterPropMonitor 1:0.8.9)
Waterfall - Restock (WaterfallRestock 0.2.3)
Waterfall Core (Waterfall 0.10.5)
Waterfall Extensions (WaterfallExtensions 0.4.0)
WaypointManager (WaypointManager 2.8.4.7)
And also
[1.12.X] EventHorizon v1.1
which isn't on CKAN
Christ that's a lotta mods
I've added another since that post, Trajectories
nice, thanks.
yeeesssss. Been playing a lot of ksp lately
I for some reason actually like making airplanes. I don't attempt landing them though (always fly directly above where I want to land at a sufficiently high altitude, quickly decelerate and use a bunch of parachutes placed in such a way that I land with wheels first), and I kind of suck controlling them as I am using a keyboard which isn't great with fine controls (so I never managed to do the barnstorming missions).
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
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