I saw in the comments you are a retired math teacher and suddenly, the incredible detail, clarity, and building on previous lessons all makes perfect sense.
this is easily the best tutorial series on youtube, i love the way you constantly refer back to concepts youve talked about before and reinforce them in new situations. Are you a teacher in your day job? You have the skill!
@@MikeAben you mustve been a favorite among the kids, you seem like a very genuine person who isnt to controlling and genuinely loves teaching people things
This has helped me so much, my first plane took so long on trial and error. I kept putting my center of lift and center of mass to close (thought they should be equal). I also didn't account for fuel losses. Can't wait to build my advanced plane better with this knowledge
I spent about an hour trying to get my plane to work before turning to TH-cam, this was a major help as it was straight to the point and was able to explain the basics and fundamentals which I can carry over to other designs!
I can't even tell you how much easier this is making my low level science gathering. Thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial. 10x easier than any video I've found out there, extremely informative.
Touching up on ksp because ive been getting into it after work. I can tell you used to teach by the flow you use. Thank you for putting time and effort into making these tutorials. Please never lose your enthusiasm for teaching
Probably true somewhat in real life. A rocket is just going up, a plane has multiple parts so it can go up, down and turn. More moving parts means more complication and chance for failure. I think it’s fair to say a plane has a higher chance of failing than any astronaut has had in a rocket. It doesn’t mean no deaths, obviously there have been, but it’s far less.
It might have been mentioned in a later video but since I didn't see it mentioned here I thought it worth... well, mentioning. When the center of lift is above the center of mass, the craft is more stable, and naturally when it's the opposite, it's less stable. That isn't necessarily bad, because less stable craft are easier to turn, but it's good to be aware whether you're favoring stability vs. maneuverability.
I've seen alot of different Kerbal tutorials from different TH-camrs, and may I just say that yours is the best by far. A proper, genuine "tutorial", brilliantly presented. It had been frustrating me for ages that I couldn't build a plane that flies the way I wanted it to even though I thought I was doing everything I was watching these guys do. Straight away from watching your video, I've nailed it 👌 You've opened up a whole new world to a game that has frustrated me for years since it's release and for that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I have several hundreds of hours gameplay time in KSP, but I did not dare to try building planes before I saw this couple days ago. It was just basic jet plane, but it flew (still flies) really well! I even managed to land it without chutes. Great piece of tutorial even for older players!
Just wanted to say Thank you. I've been playing KSP for several years and I enjoy your more detailed explanations and more exacting use of the various system and UI controls. I've bounced around your Not beginners videos for a while now. But really have enjoyed following through on Absolute Beginners videos. Again just wanted to say thanks.
Played KSP years ago and just recently picked it back up. I was a little unsure as to the proper placement for CoM and CoL, but this tutorial was absolutely clear and covered everything required for a first plane build. ( n_n)_b
Great vids! I just got ksp and I noticed most youtubers are so comfortable with shortcuts and game mechanics they forget to point them out. I found out about 4 in this one vid so thanks
I really hated building Planes... I just find it annoying if you have to make really long trips via airplane you need to use the physics warp and that's very often kind of messy from x2 acceleration and beyond. This guide really helps me figure out some things I like to try on my next build. I never payed much attention to the placement of the landing gear, for example. What you say makes total sense and anyone would have been able to come up with that - haveing someone point a finger at it just makes things sooo much easier. Also, I never split the controls between yaw-, roll- and pitch-controlling surfaces. I wonder how that's gonna make a difference?!? It will be fun to find out later tonight. Again: Thank you for the time you put into this. I hope for you that this channel blows up by quite a bit cause it really keeps up with Matt Lownes and Scott Manleys stuff.
You are awesome!!!! I have struggled with planes so much, that I had actually given up!!! Your tip on toggling the different control surfaces SIGNIFICANTLY improved performance on my first plane!! Its now not so twitchy!!! Thank you!!
A couple things I'd like to add/clarify: For the first plane (the tech level shown in this video) balancing the CoM and CoL so closely is actually far from necessary. Just make sure the CoM (yellow icon) is forward of the CoL (blue icon) and you're good. In fact, I find it easier to have my elevators at the back in this design, as shown at about 12:00 - this makes the plane less agile, but more stable, which means easier to control. And since this is aimed at beginners, I think ease of control is more important than agility. It also makes the tweaking of the control surface deflection (show in the next video, if memory serves) almost completely unnecessary, which in turn means one less item on the checklist that could lead to catastrophic mission outcome...
All fair points. A lot of it is personal taste. I don't like the feel of a very nose-heavy plane and so much prefer the CoL quite close to the CoM. I also rarely use the tail connector that I do here (I find it too long) preferring instead an empty Mk1 fuel tank or even the Hammer SRB so I can get into the high atmosphere, but I thought all of that would be too much for this video.
Great tutorial. One other factor you didn't mention on landing gear placement is making sure the main gear (rear) are pretty close to parallel. Depending on where you mount them, if their camber or caster is too far out of alignment, the plane will be unstable when rolling and if one side lifts first it will cause it to pull hard to one side and strike a wingtip. (which usually doesn't end well) There was a mod with gear that would automaticly align, but with stock you should spend time to get it as good as possible.
I really enjoyed your video. Wanted a recap after not playing KSP for a couple years. Your well spoken and concise way of presenting all relevant controls and tips was spot on.
Best video ever to exist ever. I never would have noticed without this vid that my horizontal tail fins were slightly elevated and my wings needed to be placed slightly lower on the ship. Thanks so much man 🙏 I’m flying planes!
Thanks! This tutorial helped me fix the rudder and pitch problems with my Sky Wing X4, it's a really big space plane. I just barely missed the moon and flow for a good hour and hit Jupiter. You know what, I might make a video tomorrow when I get to it. :) You deserve a sub
I just unlocked aviation for the first time yesterday and my first plane went horribly, lol. This video literally answered every question I had! Thank you!!
Your quality of videos has improved dramatically with a simple change of adding "tips" on the side as you're talking. I also appreciate that you care to make a plane with only beginner parts available. I've seen lots of tutorials where they're using advanced parts and it kinda discouraged me to ever make a plane. 110% appreciate your efforts!
Just started playing KSP recently, picked it up on the steam Summer Sale. I haven't played a game that engrossed me like KSP does in a long time. I can't believe how quickly hours pass while I'm playing, I'm loving it so far, getting ready for my first Mun Landing 😁. Part of the reason I'm enjoying it so much is that your videos have helped me drastically in understanding the basics, thanks for taking the time and for using actual parts I'll likely have as a beginner. Too many "tutorial" or beginner vids I've come across us DLC or advanced parts I won't have for a while.
Thanks for this tutorial, now I can build a working plane in KSP. A bit of an addition, it's also a good idea to attach the cockpit on a decoupler, and put some parachutes on it. It can save Jeb's life (and possibly your mission) if anything goes wrong.
Incredibly helpful video. Ive played kerbal for a bit and have gotten to the mun but your videos are so incredibly helpful. Lots of useful building tips.
I really like that you point out the quick-keys for things. In the long run it saves so much time, but if you learn the click version first you never learn the keys later. At least according to a twenty five year old Human-Computer interaction course, but it seem reasonable that you don't bother to learn a new way to do things if you already know one.
Thanks. I find myself using often quick keys without thinking and only noticing in editing. Hence that information often being titles. The other thing is camera controls. Right and centre dragging and shift scrolling are used all the time, but I don't even realize I'm doing it. I kinda wished I thought about talking about it early in this series. Maybe a separate video sometime.
Pretty much did the same design, but all those little adjustments were taking WAY too much time to nail. Thank you for complex and easy to get tutorial.
Great informative video. Have been playing Ksp for many many years, but always had problem taking off with the very first tech planes. Not anymore! Thanks!
Thank you so much for this, Scott Manley's video is outdated and wrong and extremely counterproductive. You just saved me most of the materials, resources, and science I wasted by following Scott's awful career mode tutorial. By the way, though, wtf is a "Materials Study?" I can't find any info about how to do a "Materials Study" in the game or online at all. Also, does anybody know how to move the camera side to side when building these? I can only seem to rotate, zoom, and move up/down. But no side-to-side movement is possible. EDIT: Figured out how to move the camera side-to-side. For anyone interested, it's just "middle-click + drag," super simple!
The Materials Study is the experiment that the SC-9001 Science Jr performs. The experiment is performed the same way as with other experiments, by right clicking on the part and selecting do a materials study. It's very much like the Mystery Goo in that it needs to be reset by a scientist in order to be run again.
omg this was super helpful! ive had this game since 2016 and today i finally understand building planes! thank you! you make it sound very intuitive and easily understandable! keep it up!
Gotta keep it real with you Mike - I still can’t get my plane to fly for shit. But I’ve come a hell of a lot closer using this tutorial and I’ll figure that wobble out sooner or later. All the other tutorials on youtube are in builds of KSP from 3 or more years ago, so it’s nice to have a relevant video for other new players. Thanks for taking the time to edit images and text in too for supplementary information.
Thank you so much for the tutorial. I've been wondering why my planes would either not pull up or flip out after taking off. This helped me so much with a mission I've been trying to do with surveying kerbin, but kept over shooting with a rocket then it took an hour running at 4x speed to reach the first point survey point
thanks for the vid I'm making a space shuttle but I can't get it to glide so this helps a lot also (ik I'm a year late) can the center of lift be above or under the center of lift or does it not matter
It can matter especially if your angle of attack is high, like with a space shuttle on re-entry. If the centre of mass is quite a bit higher than the center of lift and you're pitching up aggressively, you can reach a point where the CoM goes behind the vertical going up from the CoL. If that happens, there's a good chance the plane will become unstable. With shuttles on re-entry you want your mass as far forward as you can. During this phase your fuel tanks should be mostly empty. I like to move all the fuel to the most forward tanks. Sometimes I even have empty tanks for fuel or monoprop up forward just for this purpose. This will increase stability during re-entry. Once you start pitching down and going into glider mode, you can start moving some of the fuel back to improve handling. Good luck.
My first plane never has wings... It is literally a cheap rover to bimble around all the KSC minibiomes hoovering up science. It feels so cheap but is helpful for a science boost!
@@AsterixMiguelix Each building is a biome with many buildings having multiple biomes. For example, you can collect science at the Tracking Station main building, and then again at each of the three antennas.
These videos are amazingly helpful! I have just one request, would it be possible for you to put this series into their own playlist. It gets difficult trying to sort thorough all of the other videos to find the next one in order.
Have you tried the Missions expansion? I was surprised that the first missions have no pilot or reaction wheels, making the first rockets the hardest to fly (relatively).
Watching your videos... one thought came to mind... what about using that KOS script to have some pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight check lists... so that after design... you are not forced to remember a bunch of info... and can concentrate on piloting... just a thought.
Honestly, that's kinda brilliant, especially for me who is always forgetting stuff. I do have a doc with a checklist that I never use. Something ingame could just be the trick.
Followed your tutorial to a tee and at 14:30 I can't get the blue ball behind the yellow ball. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. There seems to be an edit in the video because at 14:28, the ailerons are behind and the at 14:31, they are in the front with you not showing how it was done. I've tried to "slide" it over but it only slides a few feet and stops. I have to delete it and re-add it but then the balls are not in the place where you show them. What am I missing?
There is definitely an edit, but I simply grabbed them and put them in their new spot. As you observed, the move tool can't move them that far. One possibility is that there is that a lifting surface has been duplicated but it is inside another part so you can't see it. Also, I've had the CoL indicator (the blue ball) get messed up. Try reloading the craft and see if that resolves it.
It’s so frustrating how you have to make your planes look so odd because of KSP’s wonky physics model. I feel like you always have to put those canards on the front otherwise there’s no way to bring the lift forward, and you can’t put the wings forward enough to not need canards or you block cockpit entry. Other than that, thank you, this helped a ton!
for me this didn't help, my plane keeps tilting to one direction and it is incredibly unstable, I followed every step of the tutorial and I don't know what I did wrong.. edit: also when I try to take off the back cone thing keeps hitting the ground and destroying the plane
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I saw in the comments you are a retired math teacher and suddenly, the incredible detail, clarity, and building on previous lessons all makes perfect sense.
Finally an actual beginner tutorial that doesn't use other parts than the first ones, and explains the hows and whys clearly.
this is easily the best tutorial series on youtube, i love the way you constantly refer back to concepts youve talked about before and reinforce them in new situations. Are you a teacher in your day job? You have the skill!
Yup, retired high school math teacher.
@@MikeAben, These vids have been a godsend, thank you 🙏
@@MikeAben Thank you soo much :)
*laughs in Scott Manley*
all jokes aside these series are also top notch
@@MikeAben you mustve been a favorite among the kids, you seem like a very genuine person who isnt to controlling and genuinely loves teaching people things
This has helped me so much, my first plane took so long on trial and error. I kept putting my center of lift and center of mass to close (thought they should be equal). I also didn't account for fuel losses. Can't wait to build my advanced plane better with this knowledge
That's what great. The principles don't change as you go bigger.
Dude, you are VERY good at this, keep it up! Love having a more recent tutorial from somebody that is talented and knowledgable!
I spent about an hour trying to get my plane to work before turning to TH-cam, this was a major help as it was straight to the point and was able to explain the basics and fundamentals which I can carry over to other designs!
I can't even tell you how much easier this is making my low level science gathering. Thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial. 10x easier than any video I've found out there, extremely informative.
After hours of trying, I finally gave in and watched this and crafted a similar plane. First try, it flew so well. Thank you.
Touching up on ksp because ive been getting into it after work. I can tell you used to teach by the flow you use. Thank you for putting time and effort into making these tutorials. Please never lose your enthusiasm for teaching
why are planes harder than making rockets lmao
Cause aerodynamics.
Probably true somewhat in real life. A rocket is just going up, a plane has multiple parts so it can go up, down and turn. More moving parts means more complication and chance for failure. I think it’s fair to say a plane has a higher chance of failing than any astronaut has had in a rocket. It doesn’t mean no deaths, obviously there have been, but it’s far less.
Rocket go vroom vroom up. Plane go vroom vroom all directions.
SCIENCE
It might have been mentioned in a later video but since I didn't see it mentioned here I thought it worth... well, mentioning.
When the center of lift is above the center of mass, the craft is more stable, and naturally when it's the opposite, it's less stable. That isn't necessarily bad, because less stable craft are easier to turn, but it's good to be aware whether you're favoring stability vs. maneuverability.
I've seen alot of different Kerbal tutorials from different TH-camrs, and may I just say that yours is the best by far. A proper, genuine "tutorial", brilliantly presented.
It had been frustrating me for ages that I couldn't build a plane that flies the way I wanted it to even though I thought I was doing everything I was watching these guys do. Straight away from watching your video, I've nailed it 👌 You've opened up a whole new world to a game that has frustrated me for years since it's release and for that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
thanks to you i build my first ever plane and I'm very proud
I have several hundreds of hours gameplay time in KSP, but I did not dare to try building planes before I saw this couple days ago. It was just basic jet plane, but it flew (still flies) really well! I even managed to land it without chutes. Great piece of tutorial even for older players!
literaly the best tutorial ive ever watched
very good tutorial. for being someone who isnt up to date with airplane design i was able to understand what you were talking about.
This feels quite similar to how they do the tutorials in game and I love that, this is a very helpful tutorial, thank you
You would be the greatest teacher to have in school
Just wanted to say Thank you. I've been playing KSP for several years and I enjoy your more detailed explanations and more exacting use of the various system and UI controls. I've bounced around your Not beginners videos for a while now. But really have enjoyed following through on Absolute Beginners videos. Again just wanted to say thanks.
Played KSP years ago and just recently picked it back up.
I was a little unsure as to the proper placement for CoM and CoL, but this tutorial was absolutely clear and covered everything required for a first plane build.
( n_n)_b
Great vids! I just got ksp and I noticed most youtubers are so comfortable with shortcuts and game mechanics they forget to point them out. I found out about 4 in this one vid so thanks
I really hated building Planes... I just find it annoying if you have to make really long trips via airplane you need to use the physics warp and that's very often kind of messy from x2 acceleration and beyond.
This guide really helps me figure out some things I like to try on my next build. I never payed much attention to the placement of the landing gear, for example. What you say makes total sense and anyone would have been able to come up with that - haveing someone point a finger at it just makes things sooo much easier. Also, I never split the controls between yaw-, roll- and pitch-controlling surfaces. I wonder how that's gonna make a difference?!? It will be fun to find out later tonight.
Again: Thank you for the time you put into this. I hope for you that this channel blows up by quite a bit cause it really keeps up with Matt Lownes and Scott Manleys stuff.
you explain this so clearly for me to understand. nice
Man, 2 years after you created this tutorial, and still one of the best out there!! congrats!! amazing work!
your video is godly every time i qustioned something you said it next second
You are awesome!!!! I have struggled with planes so much, that I had actually given up!!! Your tip on toggling the different control surfaces SIGNIFICANTLY improved performance on my first plane!! Its now not so twitchy!!! Thank you!!
Thank you for the best KSP tutorial series on TH-cam.
A couple things I'd like to add/clarify:
For the first plane (the tech level shown in this video) balancing the CoM and CoL so closely is actually far from necessary. Just make sure the CoM (yellow icon) is forward of the CoL (blue icon) and you're good.
In fact, I find it easier to have my elevators at the back in this design, as shown at about 12:00 - this makes the plane less agile, but more stable, which means easier to control. And since this is aimed at beginners, I think ease of control is more important than agility.
It also makes the tweaking of the control surface deflection (show in the next video, if memory serves) almost completely unnecessary, which in turn means one less item on the checklist that could lead to catastrophic mission outcome...
All fair points. A lot of it is personal taste. I don't like the feel of a very nose-heavy plane and so much prefer the CoL quite close to the CoM. I also rarely use the tail connector that I do here (I find it too long) preferring instead an empty Mk1 fuel tank or even the Hammer SRB so I can get into the high atmosphere, but I thought all of that would be too much for this video.
Great tutorial. One other factor you didn't mention on landing gear placement is making sure the main gear (rear) are pretty close to parallel. Depending on where you mount them, if their camber or caster is too far out of alignment, the plane will be unstable when rolling and if one side lifts first it will cause it to pull hard to one side and strike a wingtip. (which usually doesn't end well)
There was a mod with gear that would automaticly align, but with stock you should spend time to get it as good as possible.
Best tutorial on the subject available. Subscribed.
I really enjoyed your video. Wanted a recap after not playing KSP for a couple years. Your well spoken and concise way of presenting all relevant controls and tips was spot on.
Best video ever to exist ever. I never would have noticed without this vid that my horizontal tail fins were slightly elevated and my wings needed to be placed slightly lower on the ship. Thanks so much man 🙏 I’m flying planes!
underated youtuber you should have at least a hundred k
I cannot praise you enough for being such a good teacher, can’t wait until you start making ksp 2 videos!
Thanks!
This tutorial helped me fix the rudder and pitch problems with my Sky Wing X4, it's a really big space plane.
I just barely missed the moon and flow for a good hour and hit Jupiter.
You know what, I might make a video tomorrow when I get to it.
:) You deserve a sub
This is the best tutorial series on youtube, it is so easy to follow plus the physics is so well explained! Thank you so much for this series :)
I just unlocked aviation for the first time yesterday and my first plane went horribly, lol. This video literally answered every question I had! Thank you!!
Thanks for all the extra tips on the controls, I had no idea how to do a lot of these actions until now
youre amazingly thorough and love it, im impatient so had to skip some, but your tutorials are perfect and helped me understand the game allot more
Been looking forward to this topic for a while. I really like your teaching style, Mike!
Your quality of videos has improved dramatically with a simple change of adding "tips" on the side as you're talking. I also appreciate that you care to make a plane with only beginner parts available. I've seen lots of tutorials where they're using advanced parts and it kinda discouraged me to ever make a plane.
110% appreciate your efforts!
Wow, thank you!
My guy makes more sense then my math teacher
Just started playing KSP recently, picked it up on the steam Summer Sale. I haven't played a game that engrossed me like KSP does in a long time. I can't believe how quickly hours pass while I'm playing, I'm loving it so far, getting ready for my first Mun Landing 😁. Part of the reason I'm enjoying it so much is that your videos have helped me drastically in understanding the basics, thanks for taking the time and for using actual parts I'll likely have as a beginner. Too many "tutorial" or beginner vids I've come across us DLC or advanced parts I won't have for a while.
Glad it's helping. I've never played a game that has sucked me in like this, but the learning curve at the start is brutal.
Thanks for this tutorial, now I can build a working plane in KSP. A bit of an addition, it's also a good idea to attach the cockpit on a decoupler, and put some parachutes on it. It can save Jeb's life (and possibly your mission) if anything goes wrong.
Great vid, being a complete beginner at ksp and struggling with trying to get a plane to work this was a massive help :)
Incredibly helpful! I’ve been having trouble getting my planes to take off but your tutorial really helped!
thanks for showing all of us how to build our first plane best one I could find on youtube thanks for all the help
I've been playing KSP for years & could never figure out airplanes, but this did an amazing job.
You are very good at tutorials. You did a great job of explaining everything, and this tutorial definitely improved my spaceplane building.
I love this video because it has the basic parts that you get early game! great video!!!!
Incredibly helpful video. Ive played kerbal for a bit and have gotten to the mun but your videos are so incredibly helpful. Lots of useful building tips.
Designing a plane, maybe now I can learn. Thank you for the information and the entertainment!
I really like that you point out the quick-keys for things. In the long run it saves so much time, but if you learn the click version first you never learn the keys later.
At least according to a twenty five year old Human-Computer interaction course, but it seem reasonable that you don't bother to learn a new way to do things if you already know one.
Thanks. I find myself using often quick keys without thinking and only noticing in editing. Hence that information often being titles. The other thing is camera controls. Right and centre dragging and shift scrolling are used all the time, but I don't even realize I'm doing it. I kinda wished I thought about talking about it early in this series. Maybe a separate video sometime.
Pretty much did the same design, but all those little adjustments were taking WAY too much time to nail.
Thank you for complex and easy to get tutorial.
Great informative video. Have been playing Ksp for many many years, but always had problem taking off with the very first tech planes. Not anymore! Thanks!
Truly a brilliant video, this has helped a lot, thank you!
tysm for this video. It taught me a lot about planes in general and now I can make a jet in ksp so yeah
Thank you so much for this, Scott Manley's video is outdated and wrong and extremely counterproductive.
You just saved me most of the materials, resources, and science I wasted by following Scott's awful career mode tutorial.
By the way, though, wtf is a "Materials Study?" I can't find any info about how to do a "Materials Study" in the game or online at all.
Also, does anybody know how to move the camera side to side when building these? I can only seem to rotate, zoom, and move up/down. But no side-to-side movement is possible.
EDIT: Figured out how to move the camera side-to-side. For anyone interested, it's just "middle-click + drag," super simple!
The Materials Study is the experiment that the SC-9001 Science Jr performs. The experiment is performed the same way as with other experiments, by right clicking on the part and selecting do a materials study. It's very much like the Mystery Goo in that it needs to be reset by a scientist in order to be run again.
Well explained. Thank you!
"Why is my plane not flying!?"
Turns out I confused my roll controls and my pitch controls.
Another helpful video as always, many thanks, Mike!
great video. you've explained everything with extreme clarity. thank you
omg this was super helpful! ive had this game since 2016 and today i finally understand building planes! thank you! you make it sound very intuitive and easily understandable! keep it up!
This is plainly 😜 another superb tutorial!
you teach better than a teacher
Your videos are the absolute best. Cheers.
Wow, that was a fantastic explanatory video.
Dude Thanks you soo much, I was having trouble making a plane and this video is great! You got a new subscriber!❤
thanks for the plane, and the reminder to take my war thunder daily gift
Phenomenal tutorial. Thank you.
Thank you I couldn’t find a design that didn’t crashed at take off
Thank you for your advice! 😆
Excellent tutorial mate!
These should be embedded in the game
Tysm for the tutorial
I feel like a 10 year old looking at this. Still, good info. Thanks!
Brilliant, thanks!
If I put fuel tanks as fuselage, do the engines use them as well?
Absolutely. If those tanks container oxidizer, just make sure to remove it as jet engines won't use it.
Fantastic was looking for a video like this
Gotta keep it real with you Mike - I still can’t get my plane to fly for shit. But I’ve come a hell of a lot closer using this tutorial and I’ll figure that wobble out sooner or later.
All the other tutorials on youtube are in builds of KSP from 3 or more years ago, so it’s nice to have a relevant video for other new players. Thanks for taking the time to edit images and text in too for supplementary information.
You bet. Good luck with your plane.
Thank you so much for the tutorial. I've been wondering why my planes would either not pull up or flip out after taking off. This helped me so much with a mission I've been trying to do with surveying kerbin, but kept over shooting with a rocket then it took an hour running at 4x speed to reach the first point survey point
You're welcome. Some of those survey contracts are ridiculous.
@@MikeAben thanks again, now nee mission, figure out how to land without crashing or needing parachutes
This is a great tutorial bro
thanks for the vid I'm making a space shuttle but I can't get it to glide so this helps a lot also (ik I'm a year late) can the center of lift be above or under the center of lift or does it not matter
It can matter especially if your angle of attack is high, like with a space shuttle on re-entry. If the centre of mass is quite a bit higher than the center of lift and you're pitching up aggressively, you can reach a point where the CoM goes behind the vertical going up from the CoL. If that happens, there's a good chance the plane will become unstable.
With shuttles on re-entry you want your mass as far forward as you can. During this phase your fuel tanks should be mostly empty. I like to move all the fuel to the most forward tanks. Sometimes I even have empty tanks for fuel or monoprop up forward just for this purpose. This will increase stability during re-entry.
Once you start pitching down and going into glider mode, you can start moving some of the fuel back to improve handling.
Good luck.
Mike Aben thank you so much for the help!!!
@@wombat_pickle1674 You bet
This was really helpful
I'm glad.
Rear gear need to be behind the CoL too. Centerline of Thrust should go directly through the CoM, too.
My first plane never has wings... It is literally a cheap rover to bimble around all the KSC minibiomes hoovering up science. It feels so cheap but is helpful for a science boost!
I've done the same.
@@nootnoot3741 I like your reverse engine. I've made that mistake. Nuzzled up to some building to get it's science and gotten stuck.
i made one i called the millipede and was able to collect like 200 science in one mission! it took forever!
How do you collect science in the space center? I'm super interested
@@AsterixMiguelix Each building is a biome with many buildings having multiple biomes. For example, you can collect science at the Tracking Station main building, and then again at each of the three antennas.
You are great thanks so much , you helped me a lot! Keep up the good work!!💪🔥Love from France !(+1 sub)
Great intro to planes. I would have liked to hear how center of lift behaves when above or below the center of mass.
I'm hoping to make a new plane tutorial soon. I'll try to remember to include that.
i made it with mk2 pieces and it looked cool
These videos are amazingly helpful! I have just one request, would it be possible for you to put this series into their own playlist. It gets difficult trying to sort thorough all of the other videos to find the next one in order.
They are in a playlist. The link is in the description.
Or, if you scroll down my channel page, the playlist is the fifth one down.
@@MikeAben I’m not sure how I missed that. Thanks!
bro my plane i was strugling to get off the ground after this it was flying immediately thanks for the tutorial
Have you tried the Missions expansion? I was surprised that the first missions have no pilot or reaction wheels, making the first rockets the hardest to fly (relatively).
Watching your videos... one thought came to mind... what about using that KOS script to have some pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight check lists... so that after design... you are not forced to remember a bunch of info... and can concentrate on piloting... just a thought.
Honestly, that's kinda brilliant, especially for me who is always forgetting stuff. I do have a doc with a checklist that I never use. Something ingame could just be the trick.
best like to dislike ratio i've ever seen
Followed your tutorial to a tee and at 14:30 I can't get the blue ball behind the yellow ball. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. There seems to be an edit in the video because at 14:28, the ailerons are behind and the at 14:31, they are in the front with you not showing how it was done. I've tried to "slide" it over but it only slides a few feet and stops. I have to delete it and re-add it but then the balls are not in the place where you show them. What am I missing?
There is definitely an edit, but I simply grabbed them and put them in their new spot. As you observed, the move tool can't move them that far. One possibility is that there is that a lifting surface has been duplicated but it is inside another part so you can't see it. Also, I've had the CoL indicator (the blue ball) get messed up. Try reloading the craft and see if that resolves it.
Thank you so much, it helped me a lot
So helpful! thank you!
thank you a lot!!
It’s so frustrating how you have to make your planes look so odd because of KSP’s wonky physics model. I feel like you always have to put those canards on the front otherwise there’s no way to bring the lift forward, and you can’t put the wings forward enough to not need canards or you block cockpit entry.
Other than that, thank you, this helped a ton!
for me this didn't help, my plane keeps tilting to one direction and it is incredibly unstable, I followed every step of the tutorial and I don't know what I did wrong..
edit: also when I try to take off the back cone thing keeps hitting the ground and destroying the plane
hypnotic learning