Well, just spent a very pleasant hour driving with Ian across some of Charon's less stressfull landscape with Pluto shining down on us from above. Nice mixture of flats, mounds and the odd smallish crater plus a really nice big one at the end which we could see ahead of us like a dark wall ..
.. that seemed to stay on the horizon for ages until I suddenly found myself pretty much in it.
The only bummer was that about 2 minutes into the drive my steering column (aka HOTAS twist input) completely failed leaving me with no choice but to plough on using only my boots pressed against the axles (aka left/right digital inputs) for some rudimentary directional control. Luckily it turns out that as long as you stay mostly in the air ... you don't need a steering column ... who knew?
Anyway, a new stick has been ordered for next day delivery (sorry bank balance but Elite has become such an integral part of my life now that the idea of even a day without it is pretty much unthinkable).
Safe travels Ian, hopefully I will return to seek out more giant rocks and deep craters with you in the not too distant future.
P.S. I appear to have about 20 minutes of video of you talking to yourself ('cos I forgot to record my own mic') so I might try to edit that into a little video to post here later in the week.
.. that seemed to stay on the horizon for ages until I suddenly found myself pretty much in it.
The only bummer was that about 2 minutes into the drive my steering column (aka HOTAS twist input) completely failed leaving me with no choice but to plough on using only my boots pressed against the axles (aka left/right digital inputs) for some rudimentary directional control. Luckily it turns out that as long as you stay mostly in the air ... you don't need a steering column ... who knew?
Anyway, a new stick has been ordered for next day delivery (sorry bank balance but Elite has become such an integral part of my life now that the idea of even a day without it is pretty much unthinkable).
Safe travels Ian, hopefully I will return to seek out more giant rocks and deep craters with you in the not too distant future.
P.S. I appear to have about 20 minutes of video of you talking to yourself ('cos I forgot to record my own mic') so I might try to edit that into a little video to post here later in the week.