Whoops, I put my thread in the wrong place. If a mod happens to read this, may I get a hand closing the other thread?
This is the same as https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=89262&p=1400332#post1400332
Hail commanders and Frontier!
While we're discussing ideas, here's one I've had. I've been trying to improve my arrivals at stations, especially the letterbox-type ones, to minimize the after-arrival maneuvering. If you fly "under" it, between it's orbit and the orbited planetary body, you will arrive closer to the entrance facing.
It "seems" that flying to less than 500 or 600 km away also tends to improve the arrival precision, but my testing of this hypothesis is very very sketchy at best.
My request is that the plain blue box indicating your alignment to target be replaced by a small 3D target model, exactly as if you had it targeted in normal flight. This to show it's orientation relative to your current facing, and to include (on Coriolis stations) the letterbox-side courtesy arrows. It can still highlight to blue for our orientation to it.
Any other features of our impending arrival might also be represented on the icon, such as an amount of drift or precision, or other information that will help us make more efficient and safer approaches.
Thanks for reading!
This is the same as https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=89262&p=1400332#post1400332
Hail commanders and Frontier!
While we're discussing ideas, here's one I've had. I've been trying to improve my arrivals at stations, especially the letterbox-type ones, to minimize the after-arrival maneuvering. If you fly "under" it, between it's orbit and the orbited planetary body, you will arrive closer to the entrance facing.
It "seems" that flying to less than 500 or 600 km away also tends to improve the arrival precision, but my testing of this hypothesis is very very sketchy at best.
My request is that the plain blue box indicating your alignment to target be replaced by a small 3D target model, exactly as if you had it targeted in normal flight. This to show it's orientation relative to your current facing, and to include (on Coriolis stations) the letterbox-side courtesy arrows. It can still highlight to blue for our orientation to it.
Any other features of our impending arrival might also be represented on the icon, such as an amount of drift or precision, or other information that will help us make more efficient and safer approaches.
Thanks for reading!