Horizons Excellent video on how to land on high gravity planets

Aelemar

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Hey guys! So, Horizons released, and I was one of the many unskilled, unprepared pilots that crashed their ship on a planet. While my own crash wasn't due to a high gravity planet (I kind of did not keep an eye on my altitude, and was expecting to see "defining surface features" when I got close enough... which never came so I thought I was still far from such surface) it was more due to me splattering at full speed all over the place not realizing the surface was there, waving at me...

Either way, while looking around for um, tips, and reading guides I should've read before my spectacular crash, I found this video. Note that this is not mine, but rather a video a commander made. (All credits to him or her!)


I found it surprising that it has only under 200 views. I assume it's because most people want to look up Anacondas and Clippers on high G planets and not smaller ships like the ASP? While the tips on this video were given for an ASP, the more experienced commanders in the community might be able to devise something similar for the bigger ships?

Long story short, this guy landed on a 9.72G planet on an ASP explorer without a hitch. A tiny hit to shields (only one layer affected) was all he got. I don't know about all of you, but I personally found it impressive. And the tips offered throughout the video are quite helpful! I definitely hope it helps all of you guys as it has helped me become better at, you know, not crashing :D

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usm21vm0zkk

Enjoy!
 
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Loskene

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Not very useful for precision landing if you have to "glide" by tilting the nose at an angle your ventral thrusters can't hold you up at. I prefer feathering flight assist on and off and just watching my descent speed relative to my altitude. He's wrong about the throttle in orbital cruise too, you can keep it at 100% once you're below 200km/s. Glide always starts at 25km altitude also, so I don't know what he means by it taking longer on that planet, but it would have taken less time to get to glide height if he didn't have the throttle glued at 75%. That's useful to avoid overshooting in supercruise but it's not really an issue in orbital cruise, where I find anything below 100% makes it too slow to descend.
 

Hilight

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Aelemar said:
Hey guys! So, Horizons released, and I was one of the many unskilled, unprepared pilots that crashed their ship on a planet. While my own crash wasn't due to a high gravity planet (I kind of did not keep an eye on my altitude, and was expecting to see "defining surface features" when I got close enough... which never came so I thought I was still far from such surface) it was more due to me splattering at full speed all over the place not realizing the surface was there, waving at me...

Either way, while looking around for um, tips, and reading guides I should've read before my spectacular crash, I found this video. Note that this is not mine, but rather a video a commander made. (All credits to him or her!)


I found it surprising that it has only under 200 views. I assume it's because most people want to look up Anacondas and Clippers on high G planets and not smaller ships like the ASP? While the tips on this video were given for an ASP, the more experienced commanders in the community might be able to devise something similar for the bigger ships?

Long story short, this guy landed on a 9.72G planet on an ASP explorer without a hitch. A tiny hit to shields (only one layer affected) was all he got. I don't know about all of you, but I personally found it impressive. And the tips offered throughout the video are quite helpful! I definitely hope it helps all of you guys as it has helped me become better at, you know, not crashing :D

Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usm21vm0zkk

Enjoy!
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Very interesting video. Thank for posting and R+
 

Sniffy75

Sniffy75
He may be wrong about the throttle and glide thing, but this is very informative and the technique could save someones life.
In that kind of G, precision is secondary, landing safely is what it's all about. +1 for finding this gem.
 
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