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- From: robink@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Robin Kenny)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:02:54 GMT
- Subject: Re: Shuttle help requested
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.010254.20915@hparc0.aus.hp.com>
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- colwell@pdx023.pdxgp1 (Robert Colwell) writes:
- : I'm an absolute novice at "Shuttle: The Simulator". Now I can see why NASA
- : never accepted my application to be an astronaut. I can't seem to land the
- : darn thing in the initial mission off the 747. Every time the shuttle
- : separates from the 747, it just sorta collapses onto the top of it and
- : blows up. I expected the arrow keys on the numeric keypad to control the
- : shuttle, but they don't seem to have an effect.
- :
- : Would somebody please give me a clue? It seems like a neat simulator except
- : for being so bloody frustrating so far!
- :
- : Bob Colwell colwell@ichips.intel.com 503-696-4550
- : Intel Corp. JF1-19
- : 5200 NE Elam Young Parkway
- : Hillsboro, Oregon 97124
-
- If your controls are hands-off (i.e. no up or down key being pushed) then
- the 747 drops neatly away from the shuttle and peels off to the left.
- You MUST be sending a "down" signal to the simulater (stuck key?)
- Note also - if you hit an arrow before the separation you will have set
- the elevators to descend - instant mid-air collision. (Sorry for the
- vauge terms; this is all from memory - the fun stuff is at home)
-
- There is an elevator angle indicator somewhere on a control panel -
- just see what the flap/elevator is set to.
-
- 'Luck
-
- Robin Kenny - (insert usual disclaimer, blah, blah, blah)
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