I've attached the save state. This is the third campaign mission, the first with the Atlas. All goes well, I do the first orbit. Then I put the ship into auto retrograde, and it follows it well. Nightfall comes, the horizon tracker seems to not work any more because of the darkness, so I put the gyro to free and let it drift. Once the sun comes up to the east, I orient the capsule retrograde, turn the gyros back to norm. The gyro goes back to zero except for yaw, which is -180. If i enable the auto flight mode, it tries to yaw the aircraft around to prograde. I figured something got messed up, so I point retrograde again, and cage the gyros, all the needles go to (0,0,0). But when I uncage them, it goes right back to (0,180,0), which makes no sense based on what the manual describes. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm really not understanding why it's behaving this way.
#Mercury Gyro's and retro attitude.... please help me understand
ancient harbor
rough skiff
The horizon scanners should work when its night, it's temperature sensitive. You should avoid setting the gyros to cage and all that. The reason it snaps back is that in this mode, the gyros are slaved to the horizon scanners, so they try to drive them. I would recommend trying the mission again without changing the gyro modes and caging. I will do the same.
Thanks!
ancient harbor
Thanks! So even when it has you rotate all around in prograde attitude, etc, way past the gyro angle limits specified in the manual, just leave it in norm? Why does the mission ask you to put the gyro in free?