My ship just crashed while I was trying to land on Struve 1321 3 A and I know there are a lot of obvious answers to how but I still want to understand what happened. I was pulling into the spaceport, at almost a complete stop, and right when I started to angle myself towards the landing pad—I couldn't've been more than 75m off the ground—my ship started accelerating into the ground. I mashed the VERTICAL THRUST UP button, I tried turning, nothing. I just watched it fall like a rock. I've spent the last maybe twenty minutes trying to find an answer and they all sound plausible, but none are it. The planet has pretty low gravity, all the reported bugs I could find weren't reported again since like 2017, and my ship wasn't heavy at all. I'd just done several landings elsewhere for a bunch of missions that I now have to abandon for huge fees and reputation loss, which feels bad since I'm a new player. Those planets had more gravity than this one. —But like I said, new player. Is there something obvious I'm missing? It couldn't've been a button input getting stuck. This just started happening in the middle of a flight that had my full attention.
Automatic kamikaze?
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Hit boost?
First and foremost, the successfully landing on a high g planet, isn't dependent of thruster's alone.
A 6D thruster has 16 tons of mass, 6B has 64 tons. Most generally, though a "B" is slightly more powerful, it has significantly more mass than a "D". Hence most player's will utilize a "D" for generally purposes. Though an "A" has slightly more mass than a "B", it is significantly more powerful, hence most player's will utilize an "A" for more specific purposes. The more mass, the more gravity regardless of its strength, will effect thrusters. In addition, any ship will have issues on a planet with high g's, if and when the ship isn't perfectly horizontal to the planet. If your approach to an LZ causes you to be to high when you get to your location. Either do a go around and come in at a slightly different approach angle, or be EXTREMELY vigilant when utilizing your thrusters to descend. Considering there isn't an atmosphere, any angle a ship has while making an approach will have an effect on the ability of its thrusters to maintain altitude.
Depending on thrusters, one can hover at a low altitude and the ship will not descend, tilt the craft ever so slightly in any direction, and it will start to descend.
A 6D thruster has 16 tons of mass, 6B has 64 tons. Most generally, though a "B" is slightly more powerful, it has significantly more mass than a "D". Hence most player's will utilize a "D" for generally purposes. Though an "A" has slightly more mass than a "B", it is significantly more powerful, hence most player's will utilize an "A" for more specific purposes. The more mass, the more gravity regardless of its strength, will effect thrusters. In addition, any ship will have issues on a planet with high g's, if and when the ship isn't perfectly horizontal to the planet. If your approach to an LZ causes you to be to high when you get to your location. Either do a go around and come in at a slightly different approach angle, or be EXTREMELY vigilant when utilizing your thrusters to descend. Considering there isn't an atmosphere, any angle a ship has while making an approach will have an effect on the ability of its thrusters to maintain altitude.
Depending on thrusters, one can hover at a low altitude and the ship will not descend, tilt the craft ever so slightly in any direction, and it will start to descend.
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don't let it get you down!
Or if you can bind your vertical thrusters to an analogue input. You can balance the gravity with them then descend/land by blipping the FA on/off.
Any ship can hover at any g level, as long as it's nearly level. If you angle too far then the true load rapidly becomes apparent.
Running out of fuel is also a distinct possibility given the evidence.
No fuel =no thrusters=nothing to prevent heavy ship from dropping like a stone=boom.
No fuel =no thrusters=nothing to prevent heavy ship from dropping like a stone=boom.
This is sound advice. Be wary of thrusting downwards on high-G planets, instead just blip the thrusters off by turning off Flight Assist for a second now and then to descend.
You point out a disadvantage to that method. I have that control set in Alternate Flight Controls. So, if I forget to check that the rotary is in the dead band, as soon as I lower the landing gear. The vertical thrusters come into action. Whoops!
