Locking on to a FSD Wake
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Is that one where you find them in supercruise and they tell you they're going to drop down and to follow their wake? If so, when they drop out of supercruise they will leave a wake that shows up white on your radar. You just target it and then fly to it at the correct speed as though you were flying to a navigation beacon or a far off station for docking. When you get the blue message that it's safe to drop down, your contact will be right there.
You don't need a scanner to follow people dropping to regular speed from supercruise, but I think you do need one if they're jumping systems (hyperspace? I don't know what this game calls it).
If you are targeting the ship when it drops to normal space or jumps to supercruise or hyperspace, you will automatically be targeting it, you can also point at it and use "select target ahead" or you can go to the contacts panel and select it from there. If it is a high wake (hyperspace) you will need a wake scanner to follow it. If you don't have a wake scanner you can line up with the direction of the wake and select, one at a time, the systems from the navigation panel until you see that one of them lines up with the wake (look at your compass), you'll have to be quick to catch them though.