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Master Status Display
The Master Status Display, or MSD, is your main window to TestFlight. It shows you all the TestFlight enabled parts on your current craft, their current status, stats, and provides an interface to repair them if necessary and possible.
The MSD is only available in the Flight Scene.
In its default configuration, the MSD is quite large but can show you a lot of information. All of these fields can be toggled on or off though allowing you to customize things to the way you like them.
- Flight Data Shows the current amount of flight data, in data units (du), recorded on the part. This will update in real-time during your flight as long as the given part is recording data. Data records automatically as long as the part is not failed and the criteria for recording are met. The criteria depend on the configuration of a part. For example an engine will only record data while it is running.
- MTBF Shows the Mean Time Between Failure rating for the part. This is the statistical average time between failures, and give you an indication of how reliable the part is. Failures can still occur at any time. MTBF will not change during a flight, as it is based on the flight data recorded in previous flights.
- Failure Rate Shows the Momentary Failure Rate of the part. This is the raw failure rate, not chance of failure of the part for any given moment and changes in real-time throughout a flight based on the current operating condition of the part. For more detail on the concept of Failure Rate see Wikipedia.
- Part Status Text Shows the part's current status, whether that is "OK" or a failed condition. If the part is in a failed condition, the status text will indicate the failure in yellow for minor failures and red for critical failures.
- Part Name Shows the part's name in the game. If using an engine with an alternate configuration due to ModuleEngineConfigs, the alternate configuration name will be shown here. This field can not be hidden however you may select an option for "Short Part Names" which will truncate the field to a smaller width, but this will cut off any long part names.
- Acknowledge Button The "A" acknowledge button let's you acknowledge a failure. This will remove the failure from the Flight HUD, as well as hide the failed part in the MSD if you have set "Show Failed Part Only". It does not repair the failure.
- Repair Button The "R" repair button will attempt to repair the current failure. The button only appears if a repair can be attempted, and all the repair requirements have been met. To see the repair requirements, mouse over the name of the part. This only attempts to repair the failure, but many failures have a percent chance of success, so you may need to press it more than once to actually repair the failure. The attempt may involve the use of resources or time however, so you must decide how many attempts to make.
- Repair Requirements The repair requirements show up as a tooltip if you mouse over the part's name in the MSD or FlightHUD. Repair requirements that are met will be in green, requirements not met will be in red, and optional requirements will be in yellow if they are not met, and green if they are. Additionally the repair requirements tooltip for the FlightHUD will list the name of the failure.
In addition to options to toggle on and off the fields above, you can set "Short Part Names" which will shorten the field for the part name (and thus the window) but will truncate any part names too long to fit. You may also "Show Failed Parts Only" which means the MSD will be filtered and not display parts that are operating properly. Only failed parts will show in the list until you turn the filter back off.
Lastly you can set the MSD size between Small, Medium, or Large which simply sets how tall the window is. If all the parts can't be displayed in the selected sized window, the window will scroll.
In the options you can enable the FlightHUD which is a much smaller, more compact window that displays only failed parts, and only their name and the "A" and "R" buttons.