Drive?? Do I need a SRV to compleate a mission which I should need only my ship to complete? Do I need the SRV scanner because my ship's one can't locate POIs and skimmers? Can you see how much sickness is in all this?
No, you can shoot them with dumbfire missiles. I can tell you're pretty frustrated, so here goes.
-Buy a light, small ship. The Eagle or DBS are excellent for these missions.
-Go to the target system and scan the nav beacon to get a mission update (this will prevent 99% of missing kills frustration).
-Go to the target settlement, anywhere between 10-100 km outside of it.
-Use your PgUp key to zoom your sensors out to max.
-Fly at approximately 3km altitude. If you go below 1.8km the POIs will disappear
-POIs will show up as blue circles. The closer you get, the larger they will get.
-At the edge of the POI circle, throttle down to 75% and just glide through it. You can pitch down to 45 degrees if you want. Usually I just make a pass and turn around.
-Some POIs can be very easy to spot from the air (buildings), some can be very difficult (wreckage).
-When you do find the POI, give it a real low pass at about 50-100m to alert the skimmers. Don't go too low, or the skimmers may pop up and hit you (bad thing, has a reverb cascade effect)
-Once you have visual on the skimmers, pop them with some dumbfire missiles.
-Rinse repeat until you have met your mission objective.
Alternatively you can do it in an SRV... which the mission description explicitly states as a probable mission requirement.
