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Do the following without assuming position anywhere.
Take off. Retract your landing gear.
After two seconds make a lateral roll to point your ship's nose just above Lave Station. Accellerate forward to fly over it while keeping close to the station by adding some downward motion (no rolling, just top thrusters).
As soon as the distance to the station starts to climb again, roll downward until you see the station again. Point your ship's nose to space above the station. Again accellerate forward and add downward thrust.
Repeat the above until you see the station's entrance again. Ask for landing permission. Extend your landing gear. Line up with the station's entrance by mainly applying upward and downward thrust and only adjusting your pitch for small corrections.
Dock at Lave station.
Repeat the exercise, but instead of going over it, circumvent it by passing it on the left.
Recap
When you've successfully gone through all the previous exercises, you are now aware that there are two kinds of movement for a space ship:
- Yaw, pitch and roll: these control only the orientation of your ship. As far as flying is concerned, this is only useful when you want to see something in your windshield.
- Accelerate and decelerate in any direction: these control the direction that your ship is flying. To get somewhere, these are the controls you need.
The above is the most important lesson you learned so far. It is vital that you can fly around a space station and dock with it without thinking which button to press, before you go on with part 2.
