games:elite_dangerous:landing_at_a_station
Games - Elite Dangerous - Landing at a station
- Takeoffs and landings are safest done with 4 pips to shields and 2 pips to engines.
- You won’t need weapons energy.
- At 7.5km range from the station, request docking permission.
- You should see a blue docking info tab appear in the middle of the HUD.
- Aim for a point in front of the station’s docking slot and fly towards it.
- As you approach the axis of rotation of the station, slow down to blue region and turn to face the slot.
- Lateral thrust or offset aim your nose to center yourself in the slot (i.e., the slot should be the same shape on each side, indicating that you’re in-line with the axis).
- Rotate counterclockwise as you pass through the slot.
- Find your assigned docking platform (follow nav compass and the floating indicators) and fly directly to it.
- When getting close, drop landing gear.
- Fly straight at the center of the docking pad.
- When the docking indicator pops up, align yourself so you’re parallel to the docking pad and pointing at the control towers.
- The docking indicator should show you ship straight and level, with the nose pointing forwards (into the screen).
- Move forwards / backwards and lateral thrust left and right to position the ship such that the orange X/Y indicator is in the center of the platform.
- Lateral thrust down to touch down.
- If you bounce, check landing gear is down.
- Also try and lateral thrust up until the indicators disappear, and try again.
games/elite_dangerous/landing_at_a_station.txt · Last modified: 2021/01/04 21:25 by peter