Finding a latitude and longitude impossible?? I must be doing something wrong

I got one of those 'tip off's. I find it practically impossible to zero in on a latitude and longitude during orbital cruise. I get one coordinate somewhat stable, and the other goes crazy. Seems like I'm trying to do this the hard way. What am I missing? Is there a way to specify a latitude and longitude and get a way point to fly toward? I don't relish landing anywhere, and circumventing the planet via SRV.

Any tips appreciated.
 
I figured as much. Thanks for the tip on flying on the points of the compass until dialed in. One clarification, correct me if I'm wrong. If my SRV travels more then 2km away, my ship will lift off on it's own, and I can recall it whenever and wherever I wish. Presumably, when I get to the point of interest.
 
You need to use the coordinates and the compass heading (across the top). The easiest way I think, although not the quickest, is as soon as you're in Orbital Cruise and have the displays appear, slow down, level out and turn to face 0 degrees. From there you can see if you need to go north (0 degrees) or south (180 degrees) to get the Latitude right. Once you get to approx. the right Latitude, you can fly at 90 degrees or 270 degrees to get the Longitude right. As you start to approach the correct Longitude you can start descending at a nice glide angle to get down towards the surface.
Flying at either 0, 90, 180 or 270 makes it easier to deal with the numbers one at a time.

To visualise the coordinates, Latitude starts at 0 on the equator and increases to +90 as you fly north (0 degrees), it goes to -90 as you fly south (180 degrees). Likewise Longitude starts at 0 and goes to +180 degrees heading east (90 degrees), and to -180 degrees heading west (270 degrees). Remembering of course that if you keep heading one way they'll wrap around :)

If you can visualise the globe with the above (0 in the centre, up to +90 at the top, -90 at the bottom, towards -180 on the left and +180 on the right), you'll soon be able to picture where your current position is on that globe and your target. Then estimate a rough compass heading towards it, adjusting your heading left and right as you get closer to the target.

Personally I find visualising it that way works fairly well and becomes quite easy with practice. Until they add some way to enter coordinates and show you a guide-marker on your compass, that's the best I can offer. Good luck :)

I figured as much. Thanks for the tip on flying on the points of the compass until dialed in. One clarification, correct me if I'm wrong. If my SRV travels more then 2km away, my ship will lift off on it's own, and I can recall it whenever and wherever I wish. Presumably, when I get to the point of interest.

Yes, you can call it back any time.
 
I figured as much. Thanks for the tip on flying on the points of the compass until dialed in. One clarification, correct me if I'm wrong. If my SRV travels more then 2km away, my ship will lift off on it's own, and I can recall it whenever and wherever I wish. Presumably, when I get to the point of interest.

There have been cases where the automatic ship take off failed with spectacular effects like ships upside down on the ground with hull damage. Just use your role panel to dismiss the ship manually and you can recall it whenever you like.
 
I got one of those 'tip off's. I find it practically impossible to zero in on a latitude and longitude during orbital cruise. I get one coordinate somewhat stable, and the other goes crazy. Seems like I'm trying to do this the hard way. What am I missing? Is there a way to specify a latitude and longitude and get a way point to fly toward? I don't relish landing anywhere, and circumventing the planet via SRV.

Any tips appreciated.

Only use orbital cruise to get roughly there, drop down to near the surface and use glide. As someone already said get close enough to one set of lines, say longitude and line up on the latitude. To do this drop down to the surface, deselect any targets and hit SC, you need to point close to vertical to enter SC but as soon as you enter drop the nose down to about 5% from horizontal while flying along the selected lat/lon line at 2500mps, that gets you along reasonably quickly and if you are already close enough you will get there in no time at all. Once you are a couple of degrees away from your target point the nose down to exit glide. If you do enter orbital cruise using this method just zero the throttle and fly along at 0% horizontal until a few degrees away and drop the nose to straight down, you are slow enough to avoid the crash out of SC and will just cruise straight down in glide.
 
I figured as much. Thanks for the tip on flying on the points of the compass until dialed in. One clarification, correct me if I'm wrong. If my SRV travels more then 2km away, my ship will lift off on it's own, and I can recall it whenever and wherever I wish. Presumably, when I get to the point of interest.

Sounds like you've not done this before. If I know I'm travelling in the SRV then I usually just dismiss the ship manually. On recall, it will land on a flatish spot, so could be up to 1km from the SRV when it comes down again - i.e. doesn't land right next to the SRV. If you're only visiting an POI then I suggest keep it nearby. I did my first Tip Off mission recently, which was attacking a ground installation. Having driven in the SRV over 1km from the installation (and stopped being shot at!) on recall the ship came down very close to the base again, and I drove back in, getting shot at again. Next time I would drive 2-3km from the base I'd just attacked before ship recall.
 
I got one of those 'tip off's. I find it practically impossible to zero in on a latitude and longitude during orbital cruise. I get one coordinate somewhat stable, and the other goes crazy. Seems like I'm trying to do this the hard way. What am I missing? Is there a way to specify a latitude and longitude and get a way point to fly toward? I don't relish landing anywhere, and circumventing the planet via SRV.

Any tips appreciated.

Do what Frogs said. It's not great, but there's no way to put down a waypoint to fly to. You can get better at it, though.

Also, circumventing and circumnavigating are two different words. ;)
 
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