ILS

Instrument Landing System

Description

If you install the ILS equipment and put your target lock to a station then will use your steering controls and guide your ship into the dock. Meantime the speed controls are in your hand so you can ignite Injectors to arrive much faster than with the old Docking Computers.

Most NPC ships can dock faster also without roll, up to 80m width.

The ILS mark the current waypoint with a white flashing lightball which will approach the dock if you go nearer to the station. You can temporary override the ILS steering but when you release your controls the ILS will turn your ship to the waypoint again.

You can stop if needed by lowering your thrust to zero, for example to avoid a collision.

ILS steering suspended until your ship is stopped, so if you want to do another than landing then you can stop and lock the station.

If you change or remove the target lock the ILS turn off automatically.

Another way to avoid ILS is the missile targeting mode: use the "t" key instead of "r" to lock a station and ILS will not switch on.

Warning: the current ILS can not rotate your ship at the last stage so if your ship is wider than the height of the dock then please roll manually to avoid crashing the wings into the station.

Cost: 50.0 Cr
Techlevel: 5

Dependencies

Oolite v1.77 or later.

Instructions

Do not unzip the .oxz file, just move into the AddOns folder of your Oolite installation.

License

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License version 4.0. If you are re-using any piece of this OXP, please let me know by sending an e-mail to norbylite at gmail.com.

Changelog

2015.11.27. v1.5  Most NPC ships can dock faster without roll, up to 80m width.
2015.03.21. v1.4  Fixed landing in Rock Hermits.
                  Fixed a bug with Towbar.
2014.10.01. v1.3  No ILS in missile targeting mode.
                  ILS steering suspended until player ship is stopped.
                  Fixed Telescope visual target shaking during ILS steering.
                  Using reduced turn rates when there is a ship on Towbar.
2014.09.30. v1.2  Refined approaching curve with less sharp turn at the end.
                  Fixed the white marker.
2014.09.29. v1.1  Small fixes, for example Carriers will not turn on ILS.
2014.09.29. v1.0  First release.

Download

ILS.1.5.oxz‎ (downloaded 42 times).

Old version:

ILS.1.4.oxz‎ (downloaded 1455 times).

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Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.5	2015-11-27	CC BY-NC-SA 4	Landing System	Equipment OXPs	Norby	BB-Link