Getting started guide to Frontier Elite

Sorry if this has been asked numerous times, but I can't find any assistance to some of the standard components of the game.

Has anyone written some common questions like:
How do I land?
How do I request docking access
How do I quickly get to another planet in the system?
How do I hyperjump?
How do I autopilot?

The flying and fighting component of the game is pretty intuitive, but I'm missing a trick (or a few) on the above.

Many Thanks!
 
Let's see if I can help!

How do I land?
One step at a time! First things first:

How do I request docking access?
You'll have to select the space station on your left hand menu under "contacts". If you click on its name, you'll get the option to request docking.
I'm not sure what kind of controls you're playing with, you can bring up this menu either by "looking" to your left in the cockpit or by pressing 2 on your keyboard (at least i think that's the default).

How do I land?
Ok, now that you requested docking, you can make your way into the space station. They will have given you a pad number that you can land on. The numbers are displayed pretty obviously above the pads, so you can't really miss it.
Before you land, you'll have to deploy your landing gear. This is either found in the menu to your right under the utmost right tab, but there is also a hotkey which believe was "page down". Best look it up in the options again if you play with a keyboard.

How do I quickly get to another planet in the system?
Supercruise! Select the planet in the navigation panel to your left and (again, by default) hit J. That will take you in and out of supercruise (travelling fast within a system) or hyperdrive (jumping between systems).

How do I hyperjump?
Select the system you'd like to jump to in the navigation panel, align with it, throttle up and hit J to jump. It could be that you are 'mass locked' when you are too close to a station. Just gather some distance and you'll be able to jump.

How do I autopilot?
There's no option for that yet, you'll have to fly manually.
You'll be able to purchase a docking computer though which will land automatically for you.

Hope this helps!
 
Nightflash thanks for your responses, I'm sure they will wrap it up by the end of the beta to quickly ease you into the game, but your explanations were simple enough for me to get on my feet. Thanks again!

JR
 
Firstly... Welcome to Elite :)

The flying and fighting component of the game is pretty intuitive, but I'm missing a trick (or a few) on the above.

Any questions, just ask away... also might be worth doing a quick search of the forums beforehand as a lot of questions about starting off have been answered.

Another good tip is to check YouTube, loads of videos on there full of hints/tips on flying, fighting and smashing in to asteroids :D

Oh... just remembered... there is a new 'Quick Start' guide on the main Frontier Elite website. Haven't gone through it yet, but might be worth a read:

http://www.elitedangerous.com/about/guide/
 
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