Elite Dangerous planetary landing guidance

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For those who are still having trouble flying to and landing at a given latitude and longitude on a planet or moon, here is a profile to help you.

It uses EDDI v3.4.0 to retrieve current latitude, longitude, and altitude and calls an inline function to perform calculations of the range, bearing, and slope to the target destination. The commander steers the ship onto the suggested heading, paying attention to range and slope. It's still left to the commander's judgement when to drop out of orbital cruise as the range decreases and the slope increases, so this isn't an autopilot.

This video demonstrates the use of the profile by flying to location (15,-60) on a planet that's about 4,800km in radius:

https://youtu.be/kPNkjJsEQQ4


Release 1.2 is attached.

[netkingcol]

Landing Guidance v1.1
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Release Notes
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• Stop trying to be clever by aiming for a point 5km above the target which typically causes an overshoot. Let the commander learn to judge the approach slope based on the range to the destination and the altitude above the dropout point from orbital cruise.
• Removed all settings to save target details to the profile. This is not necessary.
• Tidied the code, renaming commands and variables to align with the title of 'Landing Guidance'.

The new profile is attached along with an updated ReadMe.