Earth spaceports in Orbiter2016
OrbitMFD is an MFD that comes with the stock installation of Orbiter. It provides a graphical and numerical representation of a ship's orbit.
Credits
OrbitMFD is supplied with the stock installation of the Orbiter Spaceflight Simulator as provided by Dr Martin Schweiger and has been a part of the simulator since its inception.
Operation
OrbitMFD graphically shows the orbit of the ship in green and if a target is selected, the target's orbit, and a celestial body, typically the body with the most gravitational influence on the ship. Any body in the simulator can be selected to show the relation of the orbit to that body. In addition it will show a number of parameters. Pressing the SEL button on an MFD, OrbitMFD is the first MFD in the menu. The graphics will also display the ascending node with a solid square along the orbit, the descending node with an open square with a dotted line between the two, also the apoapsis with an open circle and periapsis with a solid circle.
| Orbit | X | The body about which the ship is orbiting automatically the body with the greatest gravitational influence on the ship, any body may be selected. |
| REF | Shift+R | Select the orbit reference body. |
| AR | Shift+A | OrbitMFD will select the reference body automatically, the body with the greatest gravitational influence on the ship. |
| TGT | Shift+N | Select a target vessel or natural body orbiting the same reference body. |
| NT | Shift+N | Deselects the target so that there is no target vessel or body. |
| MOD | Shift+M | Changes the display mode: Graphics + parameters, graphics only, or parameters only. |
| FRM | Shift+F | Frame of reference, equatorial or ecliptic. |
| PRJ | Shift+P | Orbital projection, reference frame, or ship's and target's frame. |
| DST | Shift+D | Switches parameters to distance from center of body or to altitude of mean radius of body. |
| HUD | Shift+H | Switches HUD to Orbit mode. |