navball, how to launch East?
- Thread starter darsie
- Start date
The orientations of the capsule and controls match KSP's default now. Going east when launching is as easy as pressing "D". I suggest enabling the "RATE" mode and setting the navball to "SURF". This has your rocket maintain it's orientation and sets the navball relative to the body surface.
Herbal Space Program
New Member
It's as easy as pressing D provided that you don't rotate your craft's root part (Q, E) either in the VAB or in flight. On the Navball in Surface mode while looking up (light side), due East is the direction along the heavy, densely tickmarked equatorial line in which the numbers go down. If that direction is to the right on the navball, as is the default launch condition if you didn't rotate your root part in the VAB, then pressing D is exactly what you need to do. If it's not, then you need to use whatever combination of WASD puts your heading onto that part of the line.
Similar threads
- Suggestion
