XR Flight Operations Manual Version 3.0
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down on a landing pad or when loading a scenario where the ship is landed on
a pad.
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Many instrument panel gauges, including:
o
Fuel display showing Main, RCS, and SCRAM fuel remaining.
o
Engine display showing 1) main engine efficiency (affected by
atmospheric pressure), 2) main, hover, and SCRAM thrust levels, and
3) accele
ration along all three axes in g’
s and meters-per-second-
squared.
The G scale automatically switches its range as necessary, providing accurate
information for low, moderate, and high-G situations. This gauge shows the
force pulling on the ship, so as the ship accelerates into orbit you can watch
the Y axis Gs go down from one to zero. X = lateral (left-right), Y = vertical
(up-down), Z = ship acc (front-back).
•
Reworked TSFC ("Thrust-Specific Fuel Consumption") screen showing main
engine and hover engine efficiency (affected by atmospheric pressure).
Rocket engines are most efficient when operating in a vacuum.
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Dynamic Pressure and Static Pressure gauges; useful for optimizing your
ascent when using the SCRAM engines.
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Slope gauge showing ascent/descent slope.
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AOA and Slip gauges.
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SCRAM Diffuser Temperature gauge which allows the pilot to monitor when
the SCRAM engines reach the edge of their performance envelope.
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Multi-Display-Area
(MDA) screen that has ten different modes, showing:
o
Mode 0: Airspeed Hold Autopilot
o
Mode 1: Descent Hold / Auto-Land Autopilot
o
Mode 2: Attitude Hold Autopilot
o
Mode 3: Temperature Display for hull and coolant
o
Mode 4: Systems Status Display #1
o
Mode 5: Systems Status Display #2
o
Mode 6: Systems Status Display #3
o
Mode 7: Systems Status Display #4
o
Mode 8: Systems Status Display #5
o
Mode 9: Reentry Systems Check
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Two configurable pop-up HUDs. The secondary HUD has five modes and is
fully configurable for data, color, and transparency. The tertiary HUD shows
status and warning messages and is configurable for color and transparency
only.
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A new configuration file in your
C:\Orbiter\config
directory for each vessel
named
DeltaGliderXR1Prefs.cfg
,
XR5VanguardPrefs.cfg,
or
XR2RavenstarPrefs.cfg
for the XR1, XR5, and XR2, respectively. This file
allows you to configure many ship settings, including flight settings,
disabling/enabling a given damage type, pop-up HUD colors and fields, etc.
Read the detailed comments in each file for details.
