Dropped for being too close trying to land

Flip · Dec 2, 2015

I’ve landed successfully a couple of times, but now I’m trying at a different planet and I keep getting dropped out of SC for being too close. Is that a bug affecting this planet, or is my approach faulty?

Graham65 · Dec 2, 2015

You may be trying to land on a planet with atmosphere, can't do that yet.

Flip · Dec 2, 2015

No it’s an icy world with 2 settlements. And rings.

2plex · Dec 2, 2015

Flip said:
No it’s an icy world with 2 settlements. And rings.

Do you have Horizons Beta access?
Otherwise you may have downloaded the Ships 1.5 Beta (64bit) which is actually the 2.0 Beta (after upgrade) but without the planetary landings.

Flip · Dec 2, 2015

2plex said:
Do you have Horizons Beta access?
Otherwise you may have downloaded the Ships 1.5 Beta (64bit) which is actually the 2.0 Beta (after upgrade) but without the planetary landings.

Flip said:
I’ve landed successfully a couple of times

Thanks for the reply, though. I’ll check that.

CMDR Rison · Dec 2, 2015

This may go without saying but I think your speed in the left target indicator needs to be in the blue for safely entering orbital cruise.

Flip · Dec 2, 2015

CMDR Rison said:
This may go without saying but I think your speed in the left target indicator needs to be in the blue for safely entering orbital cruise.

Yeah, it’s what I’m doing. And I tried several times with different angles and all. I’ll try again the planet where I already landed.

Flip · Dec 2, 2015

I figured it out. In the launcher I have both the Horizons beta 2.0 and the Ships 1.5 Beta (64bit). When I tried yesterday, I must have launched the 1.5 Ships. Everything was there (the Scarab, the landing HUD, etc) so it wasn’t obvious I was running the wrong one. Today I made sure to launch the beta 2.0 and I could land without any problem.

Thanks for the replies, guys!