Change of career! Advice needed.

[Kazacy]

As you can see the rewards are way better for smuggling than mining (or any other profession truth to be told). Also you have some low risks, and in my opinion ED developers will "tweak" more the smuggling missions (read nerf). Better to have fun and make some credits because time will be short; i don't know but seems FD love to patch almost exclusively in tuesdays so maybe, maybe tomorrow will be too late.
Good luck.
PS: i repeat myself but try Cobra Mk3; it's a blast to fly and you will really have the "Han Solo" feeling.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I hope they don't nerf it too much. I actually enjoy these missions.
Apart from the stacking, they're not actually that unbalanced. A round trip of 350+ ly can take about an hour. And in that time you could make a few million. Or get to the last 300m and be scanned and get nothing.
It's very risky!

I just did 2 more missions. 1 only gave me 17 minutes to cover 353ly Lol. But I did it with 1 minute left! Lol

Good thing I divided to remove my weapons, downgrade my PP to an A3. Add some extra life support in case I lost a canopy out in the middle of nowhere. I can jump almost 30ly now.

Although at one point my navcom plotted a course my Asp couldn't do. Kept complaining about fuel limit.

Oh well. Back to robigo again!

 

[OMIKRONXI]

And how do you stop yourself being scanned on station exit?
I'm pretty good at avoiding it going in, but sometimes I get scanned on the way out before I've even cleared the letterbox by a few 100m. Sometimes without the 'ship scanned' warning too.

My method as follows: Wait inside scarcely before the letterbox slot - with gear up - and check the radar. When there seems to be a breach in the row of security vessels, boost out of station. And don't turn to early for your destination: Boost straight on, at least until you escaped the stations mass lock. You don't need a fast ship to do so. This strategy works even with a slow-poke Python very well. Even if they start to scan you, in most cases you are too far before they can finish their job.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

My method as follows: Wait inside scarcely before the letterbox slot - with gear up - and check the radar. When there seems to be a breach in the row of security vessels, boost out of station. And don't turn to early for your destination: Boost straight on, at least until you escaped the stations mass lock. You don't need a fast ship to do so. This strategy works even with a slow-poke Python very well. Even if they start to scan you, in most cases you are too far before they can finish their job.

Thanks! I started using that trick and it seems to work perfectly!
I guess it was just dumb luck before that I didn't get scanned.

I've been doing shadow missions from rodigo for about 5 hours. And I made a neat 30mil, without logging out and back in to stack.
The last run I was trying to squeeze in before I had to go went completely wrong though. I left Rodigo with 3 shadow missions, and 1 legit cargo run. Totalling about 7 million.
I flew to my first outpost, some 370ly away. No problems what so ever.
Went to land at the outpost. No one around. Almost on the pad and....

"Scan detected!"
Turns out chaff don't stop scans since I last tried to smuggle. Lol and trying to boost off didn't work cos my gear was down.

Well that ended that perfect streak of 11/11 shadow missions without a scan! Failed all 3 and got a hefty fine. Lol

Still not sure what scanned me though.
Maybe my Asp needs better sensors...

 

[OMIKRONXI]

If there is a lone police vessel that scans you, try the following: just shoot him once. The policeman will immediately stop the scan just to shoot you back. Good shields are recommended for this tactic, especially if you're going to land on an outpost under fire...

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

If there is a lone police vessel that scans you, try the following: just shoot him once. The policeman will immediately stop the scan just to shoot you back. Good shields are recommended for this tactic, especially if you're going to land on an outpost under fire...

Weapons and good shields are what my smuggling Asp is lacking. Lol
I may stick a random cheap low power turret on my Asp for this purpose.
My shields are just enough to withstand a crash at about 250m/s. It's basically what happens every time I try to boost into a port. Always going in too fast!

Has a great run just now. Had system security chasing me all around the system, and following me when I dropped out at the port.
Trying to line that up while avoiding scans was great fun. Still did it though. Another 7 mil for me. Woo. Python is only a few more mil away.