I never use these lines, a good commander knows where he has to go. lol
BTW are there lines around these visitor beacons? Because i'm almost always gona push them a little...a little, well some may have other coordinates now srry.
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I never use these lines, a good commander knows where he has to go. lol
BTW are there lines around these visitor beacons? Because i'm almost always gona push them a little...a little, well some may have other coordinates now srry.
A good commander uses all the tools at her disposal, even if she doesn't strictly need them.
If an airline pilot turned off the autopilot or other aids because they aren't needed, then I doubt the airline would be happy.
If a combat pilot turned off the altimeter because he knows where the ground is... Well, I'm sure his ex colleagues will remember him each year at the graveside.
It does if you start engines before they've cooled down though.
Refire FSD with engine temp still at 80% after scooping and let us know how you get on? Cheers thanks.
It's everyone's own choice, but the lines on the hud are there for a reason. If you don't want to use them, don't, but you shouldn't denigrate those who use the tools.
I mean with enough ship mass and shields, you could turn off your guns in combat... But that wouldn't make you a better commander
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[video=youtube;H8OFao9i6RQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8OFao9i6RQ[/video]
It does if you start engines before they've cooled down though.
Refire FSD with engine temp still at 80% after scooping and let us know how you get on? Cheers thanks.
But that's heat caused by proximity to the star target than a cumulative build up from the fsd jump, which I'd my point.
I don't, it may come over like that but maybe because english is not my language, never got any lessons from anybody srry about that.
But i'm just encouraging -or trying to- people to try flying without these lines, maybe some new commanders don't even know if you can fly safely with these OFF. Just me trying to give them a second opinion.
Some stars are considerable bigger and thus have considerably more mass which can really really slow one down if they get to close to it on their journey to the next vector. Entering hypercruise to soon will cause the heat to continure to rise and one can get blown up. In which case prior to it, generally all one has to do is drop back into super and continue to head towards the vector.
The fastest way around some stars isn't always the shortest!
The fastest way around some stars isn't always the shortest!
GD 215 A is a white dwarf, not a neutron star. Those star classes look very similar though (neutron is smaller and has longer jets). Both are especially nast when you drop into the exclusion zone above a jet cone, the forces violently rock you around and usually kill you before you can do anything about it.
Fair enough I guess... but only if they know what kind of star they're getting close to. It can be a crutch I guess, but I dunno...
Personally I make the most of the HUD while it's there, and I've flown a vulture in combat often enough to know when it's gone. (I'm told but have not experienced, that a krait can be the same)
I bought me a krait mk2, sold it fast...that boost sound is awfull, just could not keep it.
I actually like that one. Reminds me of a pro-stock bike doing a burn out for some reason.
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Haha, I like to watch this as well sometimes - The speaker of the house has sometimes a quite fancy way to calm down excited MPs as well. So very british, I like that.
And as far as orbit lines go - I like them, because they can show me in time, if the target station is in front of a planet or behind it, so that I can sheer out eventually in time to not get into the gravitational slow down of the planet during the approach. Without those lines it would sometimes be hard to tell BEFORE the dashed line would show the target to be behind the planet. And then I would already be in the gravitational slow down of the planet and the approach would be unnecessarily prolonged.
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It's a judgement call. I'm in a rush with the current CG, so I jump on 64%, but at full speed heading away from the star. Unless I somehow am not quite at full speed, then I notice the heat rising past 84, 85, hurriedly mash the F8 key on my Black Widow secondary controller, and resign myself to klaxons still sounding as I come out of jump...
And yes, Quick Station at Ross 112 is a tugger for being behind the gas giant. I'm finally learning to steer wide.
If the fuel scoop isn't deployed then as soon as you see the %heat start to drop you are pretty safe to engage the FSD, if the scoop has deployed then you need to wait until it retracts or be prepared to suffer some heat damage.
Unless I am exploring the throttle remains at 100% throughout.
What I have noticed is that each ship and layout has its own max %heat when jumping from a cold start. Once the %heat drops to close to that value it is safe to jump.
Heat sinks are my preferred solution to overheating and since we can now synthesize heat sinks. I only need to carry one.
100% throttle sounds good to me.
When exploring in the Beta. I built a macro that drops the throttle to zero and enters FSS while I hold a HOTAS button. I can then do a scan to see if there is anything interesting. Letting go of th button takes me back to Analysis mode and sets the throttle back to 100%. One slight advantage is that if I don't stay too long in FSS. When I release the button I am not at a dead stop. Typically I am travelling about 0.2 c.
[FONT=&]What I have noticed is that each ship and layout has its own max %heat when jumping from a cold start. Once the %heat drops to close to that value it is safe to jump.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Heat sinks are my preferred solution to overheating and since we can now synthesize heat sinks. I only need to carry one.[/FONT]
100% throttle sounds good to me.
When exploring in the Beta. I built a macro that drops the throttle to zero and enters FSS while I hold a HOTAS button. I can then do a scan to see if there is anything interesting. Letting go of th button takes me back to Analysis mode and sets the throttle back to 100%. One slight advantage is that if I don't stay too long in FSS. When I release the button I am not at a dead stop. Typically I am travelling about 0.2 c.
There is no dead stop as long as you are in supercruise - if you reduce your throttle to zero, you will still go at 30km/s, iirc, which is about 0.01c.
30 kps = 0.00010006922855945 c
[FONT="]0.01 c = 2997.92458 kps[/FONT]
0.2 c = 59958.4916 kps
https://www.unitjuggler.com/convert-speed-from-kms-to-c.html?val=30