A guide to good base jumping locations
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Yes, that's exactly what I do. I measure (by coordinates for accuracy) the distance from the bottom to the supercruise/glide point and measure from the top to the supercruise/glide point.
You can also touch the top of the mountain with the underside of your ship and then fly dead level watching the altitude as you go, until you're over flat ground beyond the mountain's foothills.
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I'd totally try to climb that with the buggy.
EDIT: game version: Odyssey
System name: Retina Sector FB-X c1-1
Planetary body: A 1 a
Co-ordinates of landing spot: (centre of crater at bottom of jump) lat: -2.2039; long: -61.0416
Distance from Sol: ~ 3,000 LY
Surface Gravity: 0.11 g
Height: 6.24 km
Availability for landing spots: Good for medium and small ships near the mountain summit, large ships will have to land farther down.
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Notes: This rocky ice world has many ridges and canyons, including one high ridge from the planet view I could not locate by flying around (surface bookmarks are needed!). This site I found whilst looking for it - a mountain with half of it blasted away by an impact crater. The next moon out might also be promising but I was too tired at the time to investigate. The system is ~800 LY above the Galactic Plane so sometimes there are good views of the Milky Way.
System name: Retina Sector FB-X c1-1
Planetary body: A 1 a
Co-ordinates of landing spot: (centre of crater at bottom of jump) lat: -2.2039; long: -61.0416
Distance from Sol: ~ 3,000 LY
Surface Gravity: 0.11 g
Height: 6.24 km
Availability for landing spots: Good for medium and small ships near the mountain summit, large ships will have to land farther down.
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Can I just check (given this thread has been brought back to life recently) - are people now logging live Odyssey locations or legacy Horizons locations (it's a VERY important distinction). Perhaps folks could include that bit of extra detail from now on?
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You can also try the previous mountain from me, it is a little lower, but lighter, does not require the preparation of a fleet carrier and is close to the Colony.
I once found a mountain with a very convenient ramp almost to the top. And it was super wide. Still bumpy. Perfect race track. And the peak was good outlook - down I could see the terminator, it was quite the sight.
It's interesting to see it!
While trying to find good jumping spots, BASE Paradise turned out to be incredibly closer than would have thought. In Sol.
Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, has craters up to 264 km wide and approximately 35 km deep for biggest crater. There is a second largest crater with a width of 215 km and 30 km deep, but with an interesting feauture. This crater have another medium 70 km wide crater within itself and the both total depth combined is 43 km. it looks like Nerverest from old Horizons, but in depth. And in the Odyssey! And you can fall all this height with good run-up and flight and reach a fall height of 43 km and almost 4 min of falling.
Unique craters, other analogs in depth and steepness of which have not yet been published.
System: Sol
Planet body: Callisto
Coordinates: -47, 47 for the Biggest crater and -13, -43 for the Second crater. Best jump spot for jumping into a crater in a crater on -11.34, -43.55. For lovers of climbing on Scarabs, in first Biggest crater there is a strained "Staircase route" on the verge of falling. Coordinates is -46.46, 50.50. The photo is below.
Distance from Sol: 0
Gravity: 0.13 G
Height: 35 and 43 km
Landing: good
Also, several other locations for jumping on Callisto seemed special to me, but you can find others to your taste.
1. The third largest crater, which has two small craters cut into the rim. By jumping in them you can reach heights of 33 and 35 km at the same time with interesting views on ladles and rim. Coordinates is 37.16, 127.34 and 33.65, 124.00.
2. Two medium craters with small craters inside each, jumping into which you will fly near the ridge of the inner crater. This makes for an interesting proximity flight over the edge of the inner crater with a chance to crash into it. Or not. The depth of fall of both craters is 26 and 27 km. Coordinates is 5.68, -147.96 and -34.45, -126.67.
The Biggest crater
Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, has craters up to 264 km wide and approximately 35 km deep for biggest crater. There is a second largest crater with a width of 215 km and 30 km deep, but with an interesting feauture. This crater have another medium 70 km wide crater within itself and the both total depth combined is 43 km. it looks like Nerverest from old Horizons, but in depth. And in the Odyssey! And you can fall all this height with good run-up and flight and reach a fall height of 43 km and almost 4 min of falling.
Unique craters, other analogs in depth and steepness of which have not yet been published.
System: Sol
Planet body: Callisto
Coordinates: -47, 47 for the Biggest crater and -13, -43 for the Second crater. Best jump spot for jumping into a crater in a crater on -11.34, -43.55. For lovers of climbing on Scarabs, in first Biggest crater there is a strained "Staircase route" on the verge of falling. Coordinates is -46.46, 50.50. The photo is below.
Distance from Sol: 0
Gravity: 0.13 G
Height: 35 and 43 km
Landing: good
Also, several other locations for jumping on Callisto seemed special to me, but you can find others to your taste.
1. The third largest crater, which has two small craters cut into the rim. By jumping in them you can reach heights of 33 and 35 km at the same time with interesting views on ladles and rim. Coordinates is 37.16, 127.34 and 33.65, 124.00.
2. Two medium craters with small craters inside each, jumping into which you will fly near the ridge of the inner crater. This makes for an interesting proximity flight over the edge of the inner crater with a chance to crash into it. Or not. The depth of fall of both craters is 26 and 27 km. Coordinates is 5.68, -147.96 and -34.45, -126.67.
The Biggest crater
Jupiter
On the edge
Jump!
The Second crater with "crater in crater"
Jump
At the bottom of the crater in crater after the jump
Staircase route
Huge pit
The third largest crater with ladles cut into the rim
On the edge
Jump!
The Second crater with "crater in crater"
Jump
At the bottom of the crater in crater after the jump
Staircase route
Huge pit
The third largest crater with ladles cut into the rim
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Nice find 
Chef's kiss.
Oh wow, those do indeed look pretty damn impressive. Gonna try and take a look out there this week!
I'm at the gap in the big craters edge.
This place is amazing, great find!
I've done a few runs down into the crater, just trying to get a really nice clean one for a video which I'll probably post tomorrow.
It's perfect. The crater breach is a perfect assembly point and the crater itself could be used as arena for any shenanigans. CTF, racing, KotH, destruction derby.I'm at the gap in the big craters edge.
This place is amazing, great find!
I've done a few runs down into the crater, just trying to get a really nice clean one for a video which I'll probably post tomorrow.
It needs a name: How about the "Thunderdome"?
Declare it hallowed ground, but once a year it is Melee Day and pilots battle all the way into the arena to fight to the last man standing while spectators and a couple capital ships fire heavy artillery at random into the zone. Winner takes the prize of all the pilots, ships and equipment lost during the year in challenging contests. Can you dodge missiles while base jumping? Make that a contest, too.
That's an epic find Cmdr, thanks for sharing!
I'll definitely be making a visit there soon.
I made another video today (need to find the right music before I release it) where I park my DBX on the edge, turn flight assist off, roll it off the edge and then follow it all the way dwn until it comes to rest at the bottom. It's 14 minutes long!! I confess I couldn’t quite believe your height figures @HappyRogger and re-measured it myself. Yup, around 35km! That's incredbile. How tall was Mt Neverest? I need to go and check but I'm sure it's less. Would love to see Neverest placed in the middle of this, it's peak dwarfed by this vast crater's edge.
If it's Calisto the largest crater should be Heimdall