Made a video on Coriolis stations and using the right hand rule hope it helps

DYSEQTA

DYSEQTA
Um.. come out of super cruise and hit your target forward button. The stations hologram has arrows on it pointing to the entrance.
 

Vasious

Vasious
DYSEQTA said:
Um.. come out of super cruise and hit your target forward button. The stations hologram has arrows on it pointing to the entrance.
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The station rotation is easier to look for if that is what your used to.
After all there are the Red lights on the non dock side as well

Plus it was a good way to talk about the reason behind they they are named Coriolis Stations
 
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tricky

tricky
DYSEQTA said:
Um.. come out of super cruise and hit your target forward button. The stations hologram has arrows on it pointing to the entrance.
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Those arrows are as subtle as the chevrons on the landing pad. I don't notice them or see them at all. I've been playing Elite for 30 years and have always used the fact that the station points roughly in the direction of the planet or star it is orbiting. In Elite it pointed straight at the planet. Also in the original, the stations rotated clockwise, so I have had to train myself to flip the visual rotational clues.
 

Alien

Alien
Here's how I do it ...
* Drop out of supercruise, look for the way the station is rotating.
* I think of those Coriolis stations as a cube, because basically they are, just with the corners missing.
* I rotate so that the side of the station is rotating Right To Left
* I pitch down to fly "under" the station
* I then perform a downwards thrusting manoeuvre, while slowly pitching up and going forward at full speed
* When the entrance is almost lined up, I stop thrusting, line up as best I can and slow down my speed.

There is no "correct" way to find the entrance, but that's how I do it.
 

Feenster

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Tempus-Fugit said:
If you come out of cruise with the planetary body behind you. The letterbox should be directly in front of you.
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Not always true, the planets magnetic field is going to play a role in this. With single star systems you can certainly find the letterbox while cruising however.
 

Feenster

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GHDW said:
Ever notice that when you exit the station slot you can normally see the planet/sun, also if you continue flying in a straight line from the station and go into SC you might see the snow capped pole of a planet.

Basically every station points with 45 degree angle at the pole of the body it orbits, except for ones in Lagrange points they aim for the center rotation of their local orbit.

Easy SC exits involve approaching from the planet side, harder ones are getting the angle right and seeing the slot immediately, which helps for smuggling or paying off fines :)
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You can't always trust visual clues from the planet alone. That reason being not all planets poles are vertical. In our solar system Uranus has an inclined pole of I think don't quote me 60 degrees. & yeah I don't know the math myself offhand to determine the orientation of a planets poles when lagrange points like an extra star are in play.
 
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