Omg! I just got contact!!! First time ever after nth to the nth power attempts! :bdance: I’m channeling this forums energy.:bdance: Following the contact was an immediate disconnection but then another contact and fuel flow for a few seconds before the tanker entered a turn. Once it straightened out I got in a good position but the Force left me again and I kamikazed right into the tanker from below. the virtual boomers are pissed but I can tell them “yea I killed us all but at least I got contact”:D my wife told me I was cheering too loud but I told her “yea but at least I got contact”
What I tried different this time from the other times was too just slightly open the speedbrake by a tap or 2 and keeping it there so I could make larger (by a mm or so) movements on the throttle and giving more time for the speed to gain or to decrease. This helped stabilize the speed a bit longer around target speed so I could focus more on steering and not constantly trying to adjust yaw, pitch and speed at the same time. That being said the crux of it is I can sloooowly feel the repeated practice is giving me a better feel for my movements and anticipating the momentum better so it’s really like seeing better into the future like what Mailman said. I find it hardest in that adjusting parameters so close is not like driving a car where the reaction to your action is immediate. And every action doesn’t always have an equal and opposite reaction. A mm of stick down isn’t always cancelled out by a mm of stick up. Its like trying to steer a bullet via rubber bands.
off to be reincarnated into another hapless pilot soul and try again. Virtual tanker staff you will meet your brothers soon. Ecstatic.:woohoo::woohoo: