Tap a part in flight

Reach any part's own actions and in-flight settings without leaving the flight screen.

You need this to fire a part by hand instead of by stage, to check or change a setting mid-flight, such as an engine's power limit, or to rename the ship you are flying.

Steps

  1. Tap the part. Its sheet opens over the flight screen, named for the part: Engine, Command Pod, and so on.
  2. Tap an action, if the part offers one. Each button is worded for what the part will do right now: an unlit engine offers Ignite, a lit one offers Shut down; a packed parachute offers Deploy, an open one offers Cut. An action closes the sheet and the HUD's toast says what happened.
    The Engine's part sheet in flight: a Shut down button, a Max power slider at 50%, an RCS control toggle, and Close.
    A lit engine's sheet: Shut down, its power slider, and the RCS control toggle.
  3. Change a setting, if the part offers one. Only the settings that make sense mid-flight are here: an engine's Max power slider and its RCS control toggle, a command pod's Ship name field. A setting takes effect as you change it and the sheet stays open.
    The Command Pod's part sheet in flight: a Ship name text field reading HARNESS BIRD and Close.
    The pod offers no action, only its name.
  4. Tap Close, or the backdrop behind the sheet. Either puts the sheet away and hands control back to the flight screen.

What you should see

An action's result appears as a toast at the top of the screen and the sheet closes on its own. A part with nothing to do, no action and no setting, says so in its sheet: "Nothing to do with this part."

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