Basic Tutorial Lesson 1.4
In this lesson:
- Left/right thrusters
- Selecting ships in the wind shield.
Take off. Retract your landing gear. Make a lateral roll to face Lave station and assume relative position. Make a longitudinal roll so that the bulk ship and Lave Station appear on a horizontal line, with the bulk ship left of the station. Ask for landing permission.
Fire your right side thrusters (J) to accelerate to the left, without yawing. Keep it slow, about 150 m/s. Keep going until you're directly behind the bulk ship. To stop, fire the left side thrusters to assume relative position to the bulk ship and Lave station again.
Select the ship (using mouse). You see a red cross-hair marking the ship with numbers indicating your distance (should be constant) and speed (should be approx. 0). The cross-hair is red because you selected it as a firing target. Other ships can only be selected as firing targets. Don't fire at it.
Select the station again. You'll notice that the ships selection persists. The square green marker indicates a navigation target. It only has a distance indicator, because you directional target is a green cross-hair, which has only a speed indicator.
| Shape | Colour | Function | Change by |
|---|---|---|---|
| X | white or green | Direction | adding velocity in any direction. |
| + | white | Orientation | pitch, yaw or roll. |
| + | red | Firing target | clicking objects. |
| square | green | Navigation target | clicking objects, communications console. |
Accelerate toward the ship, to about 150 m/s. When you're about 1.5 km from the ship, fire your left thrusters to avoid collision.
Extend your landing gear. Decelerate so that you can dock at Lave station.
