Landing pads.

bradLP560

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In Azeban Station, lined up perfectly, the correct pad, landing gear down, up and down very carefully for 7 full minutes but just crashing onto the pad. What am I doing wrong here?
 

Hyfrydle

H
I've also come across this problem, try turning to face the other way and it should let you land. I think this is a bug.
 

James B. DiGriz

James B. DiGriz
It could also be that your ship is not completely level on the tilt axis, i.e. the ship's nose is pointing too much towards the deck or the ceiling.
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
it might not be a bug, it could be due to levelling, not the usual MMO kind i hasten to add. if your ship isn't parallel to the landing pad it wont lock in place. the reason turning round gets a mention is that some of the pads occasionally show the docking assist graphic backwards making it difficult to see if your ship is level.

when you are on the pad try cutting throttle to zero and rocking back and forth a little, if while doing so you hit that sweet spot where your ship is level it will lock into place.

Edit: nerfed ;) my fault for the long explanations :(
 

almostpilot

Banned
almostpilot
I had the same problem using a lakon type 6 ship. With others ships before, don´t.

I opened a ticket.

IF i save the game and return, i can dock without any problem.
 

rmhepton

R
Yeah I have experienced this but with only one ship type the lakon type 6 .. can some times take a lot of lining up and jiggling around - get it to work eventually.
 

Kazide

K
I had this issue in the Lakon-6. It is because your ship is pitched forward too much. Lift the nose before lowering onto the pad with your thrusters. This worked for me and never had problems landing again :)
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
rmhepton said:
Yeah I have experienced this but with only one ship type the lakon type 6 .. can some times take a lot of lining up and jiggling around - get it to work eventually.
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the type 6 is especially tricky as the ship is the smallest to use the large size pad so looks minuscule on the graphic, plus you dont get a lot of back end to line up to make sure you're level side to side.

it can appear as if its a bug as a second attempt at docking gives you another chance to line up a bit better and without knowing exactly why it works you manage to get it down.
 

Phaser

Phaser
Ive experienced this too. The solution I found was related to the tilt of the nose, as already pointed out. It seems to affect just that particular ship type. There is another bug related to the Type 6 and docking. They may be related. It sometimes occurs when you enter hanger, leave hanger, or launch. What happens is that the sound of the hydraulics in the lift, enter an infinite loop, where it just keeps playing, even after the lift has stopped moving.
 

Rog

Rog
It's a (supposedly fixed?) longstanding bug.

If it's definitely the correct pad, your gear is down and you are lined up, then try pointing the opposite way on the pad away from the dock buildings.

This has worked every time it's happened to me.

Remember to raise a ticket giving as much detail as you can.
 

Ben Ryder

Ben Ryder
Yup, I've had it too with various craft and have backed off, leveled of numerous times and it just won't click. I think it's a few things and one of them might be that the landing indicator doesn't quite match up with the lock.
 

bradLP560

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Thanks.
Definitely not the tilt issue, I have tried every increment. I will try turning the ship away from the towers though, didn't think that was allowed!
 

forger

forger
there are 2 problems, first landing pad can be positioned backwards, if you fly over landing pad and see your docking helper flying in reverse you must turn 180 degrees and fly "right" before dock.

other option is to pitch you ships nose up, it sometimes help too.
 

Half Giant

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bradLP560 said:
Thanks.
Definitely not the tilt issue, I have tried every increment. I will try turning the ship away from the towers though, didn't think that was allowed!
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You know if you need to turn 180 because the visualisation on your dock is pointing straight at you rather then flying away as normal. I wouldn't even describe this as a bug. Or at least I'd describe it as a bug in the stations docking system not a bug in the game, if that makes sense.

the type 6 is especially tricky as the ship is the smallest to use the large size pad so looks minuscule on the graphic, plus you dont get a lot of back end to line up to make sure you're level side to side.
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Is it a large size pad? I haven't double checked but I notice the number of ramp things that tilt up and down. A sidewinder docks on a pad with one. In a Lakon 6 I've only ever noticed 2. I thought in a Lakon 9 or Anaconda there where 3. As I say that is just from memory but I'd call the Lakon 6 pad medium.
 

Wolfskin

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This happend yesterday to me too - flying a Viper. Everything was perfectly alligned (nose and level perfect) and the pad number war correct. I tried three times from different angels - nothing worked. My gears bounced on ground and I was in the middle of the blue cycles. Had to leave the docking bay and reenter again. Then first landing failed again, but at the second approach it worked. I has happened to me before, flying an Eagle.
 

CMDR Nirnroot

CMDR Nirnroot
Used to happen to me a lot in Lakon 6 but hasnt happened in a fair while since I started slamming the the thing down on to the pad a bit harder...

I ticketed it, suggest you do to, the more the merrier.
 
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