Basic Tutorial Lesson 1.3

In this lesson:

• Vertical roll (yaw)

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.

Use your side thrusters to yaw left (A) until your ship is pointing at space just left of the bulk ship. Now accelerate to about 200 m/s. Keep going until the bulk ship in your radar is just below the lateral axis. Decelerate again, assuming relative position to Lave Station.

Use the opposite side thrusters to yaw right (D) until your ship is pointing at space just left of the station. Accelerate, go forward and decelerate until you have assumed relative position to the station, exactly on a line extending from the station's center through the middle of the entrance into space.

Extend your landing gear. Now yaw left and see if you can dock. If you can't, repeat the last step but with a really low speed until you're aligned perfectly. This is useful exercise, so try and get this really perfect.