Alternative final approach, assuming you're already maintaining the 6 or 7 second ETA:
As soon as the distance closes to 30Mm, briefly go full throttle until the ETA hits 4 seconds, then throttle right back. The HUD will complain of overspeed all the way in but the alignment bars will both hit the blue zone just as you get to 1000km distance and you can safely exit.
This can shave anywhere between half a second and a couple of seconds off the final approach time, depending on the influence of the local gravity well.
I've yet to overshoot using this method.
Short video:
Longer, older video with time-specific instructions, back when I was playing it safe by throttling down at 5 seconds. Trust me, you can reliably do it at 4 with practice:
As soon as the distance closes to 30Mm, briefly go full throttle until the ETA hits 4 seconds, then throttle right back. The HUD will complain of overspeed all the way in but the alignment bars will both hit the blue zone just as you get to 1000km distance and you can safely exit.
This can shave anywhere between half a second and a couple of seconds off the final approach time, depending on the influence of the local gravity well.
I've yet to overshoot using this method.
Short video:
[video=youtube;AZPyVKzA20w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZPyVKzA20w[/video]
Longer, older video with time-specific instructions, back when I was playing it safe by throttling down at 5 seconds. Trust me, you can reliably do it at 4 with practice:
[video=youtube;gqLhGpCwK_U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqLhGpCwK_U[/video]