Example...Shinrarta Dezhra A2. System map says it's landable. But I cannot get closer than 437km from the surface. Any idea why? There's some sort of ref marker at this altitude and then I drop out of supercruise and can go no further. This happens irrespective of the speed I am travelling, even throttled back to minimum speed in supercruise/
Horizons 4.0 - why can't I land on some landable planets?
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Best learn the map symbols:
Shin A2 is an EDO only planet - you can see the atmos around it in the map:
You can land on non-atmos planets like A1
or even B1 that doesn't have any habitation:
but no-one can land on AB 2 because it doesn't have the circle thing:
Shin A2 is an EDO only planet - you can see the atmos around it in the map:
You can land on non-atmos planets like A1
or even B1 that doesn't have any habitation:
but no-one can land on AB 2 because it doesn't have the circle thing:
So you can't drive an SRV where there's thin atmosphere. Makes sense. 
More like you must pay to get on this ride.So you can't drive an SRV where there's thin atmosphere. Makes sense.
So you can't drive an SRV where there's thin atmosphere. Makes sense.
No, because thin atmospheric planets were part of paid DLC called Odyssey, and if you haven't paid for the DLC you don't get the benefit of said DLC.
Oh thanks. Noowww I get it.
Yeah, money gate and nothing more. Mind you it's on discount at the moment at Frontier Store.
Got it. Thanks. Seems a bit odd that you can go into orbital cruise on planets you can’t actually land on…
It's always been this way, and the supercruise assist module can put you into orbit around any body, regardless if it's landable at all.
Well yes of course and that's how it should be, that way you can use SCA to travel to an ELW that has orbiting stations, if that didn't work you would have to fly there manually since ELW aren't landable....yet, you can't SCA to stations and you would get endless complaints about havign to fly manually to non-landable planets with orbiting stations from the SCA users. Gas Giants, ELW and WW, there are stations around all of these in the bubble.
did you mean you can SCA to stations, rather than can't? Because you can
did you mean you can SCA to stations, rather than can't? Because you can
As far as I was aware you couldn't use SCA to stations, but if I am wrong so be it!
Ah yes of course from the wiki you can't go into "orbit" if a station is selected, only the planet, I thought it had to be a body you could orbit. If you select a station do you just crash right into it if you aren't there when you exit SCA? Never having used it I am interested to know!
If you SCA to a station you will drop out of supercruise at that station (like you'd do it manually)
Usually, if you are alt-tabbed, your ship will zero throttle, if you are not, the ship will keep going towards the station and smash into it at 75% speed.
So eventually, you need to take control of the ship
You haven't paid for Odyssey content.
Yeah I use it for 2 things regularly, first I target a planet I want to land on and go and make my coffee, come back and I'm orbitting the planet. But it works for nonlandables also.
Secondly I use it all the time for stations and outposts, activating it within 30seconds or so of the station and let SCA drop me out. I'm not sure why I let it, its not like I leave it on for a long journey, I just like letting the computer deal with the final 30secs or so and drop me at the station, preferably I've oriented myself so I'm facing the right side!