The
Apollo 15 flight was the fourth landing on the moon and the first to use the
lunar rover (LRV).
There are two EL3D scenarios for this landing:
Short Flight P66
This is a short flight in
program P66. It starts at about 500’. The LM is descending at about 17fps and
moving forward at about 70fps. The AGC
program is P66. The Primary Navigation
Guidance System (PGNS) switch is set to Attitude Hold. This is allows manual control of the LM
attitude. The throttle is set to Automatic
and the computer handles all of the throttle functions. The astronaut may click the Rate of Descent
(ROD) switch up or down to initiate 1fps per click commanded changes in descent
rate. Pressing F3 will show the
historic landing site. A large arrow
sets over the top and a green outline of a LM is on the surface.
Long Flight P64
The longer flight begins
farther up range and at about 8000’. The
LM is moving at about 500fps and descending at 140fps. The AGC program is P64. The Primary Navigation
Guidance System (PGNS) switch is set to Auto. That means the autopilot is engaged. The DSKY display is flashing indicating it is
expecting a PRO command. Pressing PRO
(keyboard ‘*’) stops the flashing and allows for manual redesignation
of the landing site. The angle to the
computed landing site is displayed in the right two digits of Register 1 on the
DSKY. Aligning this number with the
Landing Point Designator (LPD) on the window will show the intended landing
point. If this is not acceptable one can
nudge the controller in the desired direction and the computer will recalculate
the landing site, issue commands to the autopilot and display the new angle on
the DSKY. As the LM slow pitches forward
the LPD angle will change a little bit.
Also, very near the landing site the LPD angle will be so far below the
window that the LPD angle will go off scale.
The two digits to the left on Register 1 of the DSKY indicate the time
left for LPD redesignation.