Off topic but I do have to just mention that whoever made that video was flying without insurance, not even enough for the stock ship...
Help! Can you help me get my 'conda out the slot
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Off topic but I do have to just mention that whoever made that video was flying without insurance, not even enough for the stock ship...
Scudmungus
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Juuuust got mi Conda safe an home. Ting was on 0% Hull. Guessin dey roundin down? Flyin tru de slot. Aal gud. Heart pumpin. Aal gud. Safe!
Aimin to kiss roof wid head/cockpit. Fat belly! Not hangin around mind - get in/out fasta be safer
Aimin to kiss roof wid head/cockpit. Fat belly! Not hangin around mind - get in/out fasta be safer
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I have now made about 12 to 15 (wasn't counting) trips since my earlier post and I am happy to say that I didn't have a single scrape.
The pitch attitude had obviously been my initial problem, by not adjusting pitch angle at all, just using thrusters to line up, keeping to the alignment tips you all gave has resulted in very successful slot exits (touch wood).
So I am feeling much happier now about my late-night selling of the trusty T9 to move to the 'conda with the discount (in case it finished).
Thanks again everyone.
The pitch attitude had obviously been my initial problem, by not adjusting pitch angle at all, just using thrusters to line up, keeping to the alignment tips you all gave has resulted in very successful slot exits (touch wood).
So I am feeling much happier now about my late-night selling of the trusty T9 to move to the 'conda with the discount (in case it finished).
Thanks again everyone.
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No offence Bro', but how did you get to Anaconda level without working out the relative positions of Cockpit to overall ship "bulk"? LOL.
The 'conda Cockpit is on the very top of the ship, so you need to align the centre marks on the sides of the weapon reticules with the top of the widest part of the opening.
I find that this lets me get through easily whether I have the gear up or down.
Hope this helps.
Rock-on CMDR.
The 'conda Cockpit is on the very top of the ship, so you need to align the centre marks on the sides of the weapon reticules with the top of the widest part of the opening.
I find that this lets me get through easily whether I have the gear up or down.
Hope this helps.
Rock-on CMDR.
X-Terminator
Banned
You launch and then exit game to menu. When you start again you are outside the station.
There is really one way to do it efficiently:
1 - wait until docking magnet release your ship
2 - check your scanner for ships passing over
3 - disengage landing gear
4 - thrust up slowly
5 - when at the same altitude as the mail slot, check your scanner for incoming ships from the outside
6 - point the nose of the ship in the mail slot general direction
7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygE01sOhzz0&t=58
1 - wait until docking magnet release your ship
2 - check your scanner for ships passing over
3 - disengage landing gear
4 - thrust up slowly
5 - when at the same altitude as the mail slot, check your scanner for incoming ships from the outside
6 - point the nose of the ship in the mail slot general direction
7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygE01sOhzz0&t=58
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Take into mind the fact that the anaconda's cockpit is rather flush against the top of the ship while the ship itself has a huge bottom so what you want to do is take it out almost scraping the top end of the ship, it'll really look and feel as if you're going to scrape of the paint on the top but you won't.
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Then just forget the wiggle room stuff & keep the docking computer
yes and no for me.
i like to fly through the letterbox, but have the computer land on the pad.
i always seem to get the pads right in front of the letterbox
Oh it's real easy.. select "launch" at which time all the migrant station workers take their noon break to eat, then escape to the main menu and start again in open or where ever and bam, you're through the slot. I mean it's low rent sure, but how many times do you want to navigate the same causeway? Even ship captains hire pilots to drive them in and out.
I quite clearly admitted that what I was doing was getting the pitch wrong, which meant that because the ship is so long and fat that I would either bottom out if I was pitched down or I would scrape the top if the pitch was a bit high. I have piloted larger ships (except the Fed Brick which looks boring, Furrylance and Orca which don't appeal to me so far) and never had any issues in manoeuvring them, not the T7, T9, Clipper or Python. Sure it would have been OK to just "scrape along" as I found my way but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask how others had got over this. I checked for posts on the forum and watched loads of yutube but nothing quite fit the bill.
If someone had said to me, or in a post or on a video - "keep the ship level in pitch all the way from the pad" I would not have had an issue.
Thanks again to all who took the trouble to offer tips.
P. S. I had heard of Combat Logging (I did have to look it up as I thought it might be a way of keeping track of your battles) but I have never heard of "Undocking Logging".
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the one thing that bummed me out about the conda (and 99% of the ships) is that you can't enter the mail slot vertically.
Far as I'm aware the T6 is unique in that respect <3
Far as I'm aware the T6 is unique in that respect <3
What?
I really don't get it. These threads pop up every week or so.
Are you REALLY having trouble of flying that ship out of or into a station?
It's easier than a T9 Heavy to fit in there.
There's spare room for a Python on the side!!!