Almost fried on a 42K moon - need advise from experienced explorers

Watchdog · Mar 11, 2017

I just attempted to land on an interestingly looking moon in a virgin system. I went to Orbital Cruise, then started to Glide. I ended up just above a canyon and suddenly my heat level went critical. I dropped a heat sink and tried to fly away a bit to see what happened. Then it went critical again. I dropped a second heat sink, quickly selected a random planet/moon and started my warp engines. I had to drop my last heat sink to survive even then.

What kind of a death trap did I get myself into? What did I do wrong? I wasn't close to any source of heat I could identify, the star was far away.

I would be grateful for any advice. I want to avoid such situations in the future.

Jon474 · Mar 11, 2017

Wow. Strange, indeed. Does the Journal log say anything about the Event?

Jon
Type-6E

Watchdog · Mar 11, 2017

Jon474 said:
Wow. Strange, indeed. Does the Journal log say anything about the Event?

Jon
Type-6E

I use ED Discovery. There is not much in the journal log apart from the heat warnings.

Or is there any other log I can retrieve?

GJ51 · Mar 11, 2017

Accidentally hit Silent Running???

That's the most likely cause.

Watchdog · Mar 11, 2017

GJ51 said:
Accidentally hit Silent Running???

That's the most likely cause.

Hmmm, no way for me to find out retrospectively, is it?

That could have been the cause, it does generate a lot of heat, doesn't it? I think I will unbind that button just to be sure then.

Pirin · Mar 11, 2017

Most likely you are flying with downgraded thrusters. With this kind of setup if you push the throttle to MAX and try to make a turn at high speed, the temperature is going to go up quickly.

Qohen Leth · Mar 11, 2017

Other option, the moon was so close to the gas giant that you were hitting its corona, but extremely unlikely.

iain666 · Mar 11, 2017

Watchdog said:
Hmmm, no way for me to find out retrospectively, is it?

That could have been the cause, it does generate a lot of heat, doesn't it? I think I will unbind that button just to be sure then.

I did that once and died in a panic. Hence my ship name...

Jackie Silver · Mar 11, 2017

iain666 said:
I did that once and died in a panic. Hence my ship name...

I always wondered!

PanPiper. · Mar 12, 2017

Looking at data available. Hard to say , maybe a newbie mistake, with FSD charged, ready to jump but align to target etc. Boosting etc head maybe?

Outside that doesnt look like any possible heat generation. The 1800 ls from sun excludes that as a source of heat.

Cold planet,, Superb Scenary for a ice world,, + Rep for that pic alone.

dont spoiler it,, be proud,, not a massive thread , but thats a impressive pic.

rest of u,, give some Rep for that pic.

Other possibilities Glide mode can generate heat. Not if you abandon glide by upwards pull up. that cancels without a penelty and can charge FSD quick again.

Although if during glide you dip below the glide level,, 50 or 60 degrees decent angle , something like that, hitting that cancels glide and also generates a lot of heat, seems the most likely explanation.
Charging FSD after may account for more heat and boosting to get the escape angle more so.

Tbh, you cant kill yourself or even damage yourself by sun or heat damage in 99% of cases , jumping inbetween a binary sun is only case i find need a heat sink.
Fighting gravity and trajectory boosting opposite to counter will generate heat.

If in doubt, cancel the FSD charge, that makes heat, more so if cant vent the heat , like near a sun etc. Theres always plenty of time and no heat if assess the situation.
If hot, cancel the FSD, assess , think SC charge rather than jump , less time less heat , if in a sundrop situation etc.
Planetside,, just need outside masslock , get trajectory and speed, charge. dont fight gravity with boost while charging FSD< HEAT + Heat generation.

GJ51 said:

Accidentally hit Silent Running???

That's the most likely cause.

Click to expand...

Also a possibility, unlikely and unlikely to admit if it was ;~)

Watchdog · Mar 12, 2017

Thanks for the rep, PanPiper. I am glad you liked the picture.

I spoiler my pictures so that people with slower connection or on mobile phones don't have to load them unless they want to.

I went through the whole "incident" again in my head and I am quite sure I actually do remember the distinctive sound of shield recharging. There was just so much happening at once... The conclusion would be that I must have accidentally hit the Silent Running button. Since I don't feel like ever needing that mode anyway, I unbound the button to prevent anything like that happening in the future.

By the way, it may not be clear from the first picture, the planet was orbiting the gas giant number 4, not number 2. It was even further away from the system's star.

I guess the moral of the story would be: Children, always keep your finger off the trigger! Erm... I mean the Silent Running button.