It's 6 seconds not 7.
I live by the mantra 'only a fool breaks the six second rule'
In supercruise, you can fly at full throttle, until you hit seven seconds distance, at which point you should drop to 75% throttle, and finish the journey.
Knowledge courtesy of some unnamed CMDR.
My trading and passengers are getting more time efficient now!
It's 6 seconds not 7.
I live by the mantra 'only a fool breaks the six second rule'
In supercruise, you can fly at full throttle, until you hit seven seconds distance, at which point you should drop to 75% throttle, and finish the journey.
Knowledge courtesy of some unnamed CMDR.
My trading and passengers are getting more time efficient now!
It's 6 seconds not 7.
It's 6 seconds not 7.
I break this rule all the time and "foolishly" beat everyone in my wing to the destination by a minute or more.
So, here's one that I only found out a few weeks back - you can align properly with stations whilst in supercruise.
The blue "alignment" box means nowt - only that you are pointed the right way; but if you manipulate your flight path so that you approach the station's model in your left hand display from the "front", then when you drop out of supercruise, you will, indeed, be lined up with the front door of the station - which saves a lot of time flying around the station in real space at 100m/s
So, here's one that I only found out a few weeks back - you can align properly with stations whilst in supercruise.
The blue "alignment" box means nowt - only that you are pointed the right way; but if you manipulate your flight path so that you approach the station's model in your left hand display from the "front", then when you drop out of supercruise, you will, indeed, be lined up with the front door of the station - which saves a lot of time flying around the station in real space at 100m/s
I'm not convinced that the 'loop of shame' is actually all that much slower. If you pile up to your destination and then break last minute, yes you'll zoom past, but then can return at a more controlled speed and it seems just about as quick as slowing down with speed set for 6 seconds.
Mystery to me though is throttle for planetary landings. Most of the time 7 seconds seems to end up with being too fast for orbital cruise.
I use :
- 7 seconds for approach to planets
- When the distance drops into Mm : full throttle
- When just below 5 seconds : throttle zero.
For planetary landing I use :
- 7 seconds to approach the planet
- increase approach time to 10 seconds and maintain
- Fly round planet until the Orange target circle is solid, and fully inside the curve of the planet
- Maintain 40-50 degrees on the approach
I find that a straight 7 seconds on planetary landings sometimes causes an early drop out on approach, which wastes waaaaaay more time than approaching at 10 seconds rather than 7 could ever cause.
Mystery to me though is throttle for planetary landings. Most of the time 7 seconds seems to end up with being too fast for orbital cruise.
Yep but it is very hard to judge as planets are vastly different in size sometimes. The problem is that a tiny planet with the base near the horizon still presents a steep angle, but for a huge planet you can have the base further from the horizon and still have a shallower angle."Too fast" is based solely on descent rate. You can go faster at, say, -15 degrees than -45 degrees because the vertical component of your velocity vector is less.