Basic Tutorial Lesson 1.1
In this lesson:
- Lateral roll (pitch)
- Acceleration
- Landing
Ask for permission to take off. After you're cleared for take off, your ship will automatically start moving and leave the station. You are now in space.
You are flying in a straight line from the exit/entrance of Eagles Nest into space, with a speed of 300 to 400 meters per second relative to the station. That speed is indicated in the top left of the middle console.
Fire your front bottom thrusters simultaneously with your rear top thrusters (S) until you see the station in the middle of the screen. This is called making a lateral roll or adjusting your pitch.
You should have the center of the station centered in your white cross-hair. If you overshoot, use your front top thrusters together with your rear bottom thrusters (W) to correct (the opposite ones of the ones you used before). As long as you hold down these buttons, you will keep rolling, but when you let go, your ship will fire the opposite thrusters to stop rolling. You just rolled around your lateral axis without actually changing direction or speed, so you are still going in a straight line away from the station.
Fire up the in-space communications console, select Eagles Nest and request docking clearance.
Fire your main thrusters until your speed relative to the station reached zero (I). You are now holding relative position to the station.
Start firing the same thrusters again to start accelerating toward the station. Accelerate to about 300 m/s. You will notice a green cross-hair overlapping over the white one. The green one indicates what direction you're going in. When you're about 4 km from the station, fire the forward thrusters to lower your speed to about 100 m/s (K). Then adjust your speed so that you enter with the ship aligned with the station's entrance.
