So I have had some difficulty dropping out of supercruise. Sometimes I come in way to fast and as I try to slow down, I just cant slow down fast enough to drop out of supercruise. In order to drop out of supercruise, you must first be at a slow enough speed to drop out safely correct? Then what is next?
How to drop out of supercruise
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Your best bet is to line your thruster bar in the middle of the blue zone. It will then turn blue and be on auto plot it will tell you when safe to disengage and then you tap the button mapped to disengage ( Y on my control pad). A double tap of the disengage button at any speed in supercruise will make you drop out and you will lose your shield and take damage, not worth it. If you miss your destination fly past it then do a loop and then come back at it, don't do an engermency drop.
Hope that makes sense!
Hope that makes sense!
You can drop out at any distance less than 1Mm and any speed less than 1Mm/s. For tense dropping out, travelling close to 1Mm/s gives you exactly 1 second, assuming you're perfectly aligned, to hit A-Up and get into real space, or you REALLY overshoot! 
The tried'n'tested technique is to slow down to around 75% throttle when the countdown timer says around 0:07 (set your throttle increments to 25% to try it, but you can do it in smooth increments with practice) You can go to 75% throttle at any time, or do the whole SC at 75% if you want. For short (say <500Ls) distances, the difference isn't worth worrying about. When you're at 0:07/75% throttle, the 0:07 should stay the same, i.e. you're slowing to half the speed as you cover half the distance. Easy to keep an eye on.
The trick is to be ready to "A-Up" the very instant that you see "Safe Disengage Ready". Even at 300km/s, you only have 3 seconds before you overshoot.
The tried'n'tested technique is to slow down to around 75% throttle when the countdown timer says around 0:07 (set your throttle increments to 25% to try it, but you can do it in smooth increments with practice) You can go to 75% throttle at any time, or do the whole SC at 75% if you want. For short (say <500Ls) distances, the difference isn't worth worrying about. When you're at 0:07/75% throttle, the 0:07 should stay the same, i.e. you're slowing to half the speed as you cover half the distance. Easy to keep an eye on.
The trick is to be ready to "A-Up" the very instant that you see "Safe Disengage Ready". Even at 300km/s, you only have 3 seconds before you overshoot.
I spent an evening working on supercruise. throttle up to blue and don't touch it again. Keep pointed at the destination. A + Up to drop out when it says "Safe Disengage Ready"
Futzing with it more is asking for over-shoot trouble, etc. I overshot a lot. And once you are "close" but over-shot, it's a PITA to close the last gap, because of how short the time is.
Futzing with it more is asking for over-shoot trouble, etc. I overshot a lot. And once you are "close" but over-shot, it's a PITA to close the last gap, because of how short the time is.
Thanks for the info guys. I will practice some more tonight. Sadly my landing needs practice as well. it took a little while to figure out that you have to float just above the landing pad in order to dock. I kept physically landing my ship and finally a youtube video showed me how to do it.
So, once I accomplished that, I decide to do my first trade mission and deliver supplies to a station. Everything goes well. Get to the station, fly in, attempt to land and somehow hit the wrong button and accelerated inside the station.. Yeah.... that didn't end well. Insurance claim Processed.
So, once I accomplished that, I decide to do my first trade mission and deliver supplies to a station. Everything goes well. Get to the station, fly in, attempt to land and somehow hit the wrong button and accelerated inside the station.. Yeah.... that didn't end well. Insurance claim Processed.
I have found that if I'm coming in too fast I will dip my nose until I hear the engines actually power down to where I had the throttle set. Then lineback up with your destination and have the two lines on the left panel that shows distance and speed line up. It's like auto pilot. Once both lines hit blue it'll prompt for safe disengage. If I over shoot which happens to me all the time I just do a big loop back and it should slow you down to where you have your throttle.
Even though I have gotten pretty good at running this system, I still manage to overshoot my destination sometimes. It seems that the SLOW DOWN warning often pops up TOO LATE for you to drop your throttle in time.
And is anyone else having problems getting the throttle level to drop in these situations? I lay on my REVERSE throttle control (LB) hard just holding it down and nothing seems to happen until AFTER you have over shot your destination, then it suddenly starts paying attention to your input and the throttle level drops down to zero.
Is that lag in responding to input after SLOW DOWN has popped up a bug?
And is anyone else having problems getting the throttle level to drop in these situations? I lay on my REVERSE throttle control (LB) hard just holding it down and nothing seems to happen until AFTER you have over shot your destination, then it suddenly starts paying attention to your input and the throttle level drops down to zero.
Is that lag in responding to input after SLOW DOWN has popped up a bug?