How the hell do you fly your ship down to a planet surface to specific coordinates?

[varonica]

while in orbital cruise, use the compass and the lat/long readout to get close enough to your target, drop down with the steepest glide you can, and chain boost the rest of the way once done with glide, still using the compass.

Chain boost? People really do that?

If you are more than 5 degrees away point in the direction you want to go and nose up at +80%, enter SC, immediately drop nose to +5%, exit SC when 2% away by dropping nose below 0% and you are there, always drops me within radar range of whatever I am after.

 

[[VR] Frank_G]

Think in 90 degrees, as each 90 deg segment (0, 90, 180, 270) affects one coordinate either positive or negative.
Keeping this in mind, you can easily choose a course between two of those 90 deg segments, that affect both coordinates as you like. Once memorized, it is a no brainer that requires no external tools at all and atthe speeds the ships move, any set of coordinates can be reached within a very short amount of time.

90 deg - change only one coordinate
45 deg - change both at the same rate
30 or 60 deg - change one at double the rate than the other and so on.

 

[babelfisch]

The game absolutely needs improvements in that regard (please let us create planetary bookmarks with coordinates), but if you really don't know how to use a compass I suggest you go back to boy scouts

 

[[VR] Frank_G]

The game absolutely needs improvements in that regard (please let us create planetary bookmarks with coordinates), but if you really don't know how to use a compass I suggest you go back to boy scouts

Oh, how i would love surface waypoints / bookmarks

 

[fitzsteve]

They really should add the ability to set a course to set co-ordinates, it is 3303 after all!

 

[Deep Thought 42]

This is a must have

 

[Mav359]

edbearing for sure but if thats not an option then this helps, someone else posted this the other day which i thought was useful

https://imgur.com/Rcgxs4J

 

[XW_Ziggy]

You can type a system name into your ship computer and it can show you exactly where in the 100 billion system galaxy that system is, instantly.

16th century coordinate systems are too much for this computer though. You're either going to need to fly at right angles or real-time Pythagoras that s*** in your head.

 

[CMDR GTR2014]

How the hell do you fly your ship down to a planet surface to specific coordinates? Like barnacles?
Struggling with this...have the coordinates but how do you get the right path?

Fly to 0 bearing you will raise the first number
Fly to 90 you will raise the second number
Fly to 180 you will decrease the first number
Fly to 270 you will decrease the second number..

(yeah I dont remember what is X and what is Y , and right now I'm too afraid to ask )

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

Fly to 0 bearing you will raise the first number
Fly to 90 you will raise the second number
Fly to 180 you will decrease the first number
Fly to 270 you will decrease the second number..

(yeah I dont remember what is X and what is Y , and right now I'm too afraid to ask )

Glad I'm not the only one who needs to consult a dictionary to know what latitude and longitude is. [hehe]

 

[CMDR GTR2014]

Glad I'm not the only one who needs to consult a dictionary to know what latitude and longitude is. [hehe]

Not consult I just don't know which one is the top and which one is the bottom one

They really should add the ability to set a course to set co-ordinates, it is 3303 after all!

too much depth game play for frontier bro... remember inch deep this is TOTALY UNECESSARY FOR PLAYING THE GAME MAH! Or so they say...

 

[purplemarauder]

ED Bearing!

https://www.hotdoy.ca/ed/bearing/

I had totally given up on finding things on planets before someone introduced me to this! It's AWESOMES

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

By flying along one latitude OR longitude so that only one coordinate changes. Once matched go the other "axis".

 

[DNA-Decay]

You get a co-ordinate system FOR FREE.

Universal Meridian Lines.

On earth the zero Meridian goes through Greenwich.
Do you know where it is on Mars? Venus? Enceladus?

You get a Zero Meridian FOR FREE.
You get a functional longitude without needing to come to a consensus on where Zero is.

If you can't find your way around - go back to grade 8.


Frankly I think Frontier should implement Orbital Mechanics and even that go the full Delta V.
But only for people who whinge about having to work out a compass heading from Lat and Long.

 

[V3teran]

Thank you all for your responses, very much appreciated!

 

[sb413197]

The simplest way is to fix one at a time by flying on 0/90/180/270 degree headings. But it's quicker if you can visualise it....

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ething-wrong?p=5898530&viewfull=1#post5898530

Yep. Do one coordinate, then go to the other. It's not too bad that way.

Wish there was an in game tool to manually select a coordinate as a target, then fly there like going to a base.

 

[Pug]

Good afternoon,
As stated previously, regardless of what you are being told, not everyone finds this process easy. I certainly don't. You just have to give it a go a few times, honestly it does get easier.
Regards
Pug

 

[Para Handy]

I don't understand the problem here - the only bit than annoys me is that I have to go into OC before I can tell which way is North.

Once you see the lat/long numbers is it really so hard to figure out which way to head to make them change towards the co-ordinates you seek?

 

[CMDR Pugwash]

I thought the issue was retrieving the coordinates from the System Chart zoomed into the planet? (Where you should really be able to plant a waypoint).

 

[Titan1978]

for all the QOL push FD is pushing instead of new content - this should be the first darned thing they should fix. The current "Guess the direction" model is just PITA