Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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you where you a.re and what the ba.nk angle looks like with
the horizon. But, I don't think tha.t a person that i s fly­
ing the reentry ca.n. cross check between the ball a.nd the
horizon.
I think you have to ma.ke your choice and l ive with
it. Okay, roll commands were just like the simula.torJ t ime
correlation was good.
The guidance initiate came right on
the money, and the needles jumped indicating an undershoot,
a slight undershoot. From then on we just flew it the way
we 'd flown them a hundred times in St. Louie and in the sim­
ulator. I think we were ve-ry well prepared for t his.
I
tried to fly it so that we took i t down.range, and we got a
slight overshoot indication on downrange of about 1 needle
width, 1 dot. Then as we got down to a.round 2 g's or 2½- g's,
I tri ed to start zeroing it out, so then when 3 g's oameJ
the downra.nge was pegged right on the money.
And we were
indicating zero on the cross range. And at 3 g's I switched
to flying the roll bug, and. just zeroing the roll bug; and
a.s we came on down further and further the do'Nnrange stayed
zero, but the cross range started going off full scale.
Well, this really doesn' t mean anything because all the
cross ra.nge is indicating is