Yes.
I use SCA when I am busy cleaning the ship's cockpit windows and making coffee.
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I use SCA when I am busy cleaning the ship's cockpit windows and making coffee.
My thinking here is, if your are approaching a tourist beacon or similar and don't slow to 75% throttle in time, ED have design supercruise to work in such as way that the simulated control system is unable to safely slow the ship in time and so it gives up on your selected target and speeds up as if you have no target selected to navigate to.
I'm really clutching at straws here to try and explain why overshoot and speeding past beacons where gravity cannot be a factor happens. Frontier Developments must have had something in mind with this behaviour, as I don't think it is happening unintentionally.
It doesn't speed up, it keeps slowing down (see the numerical speed indication).
It's just the arrow bar indicator (and sound effect), which shows speed relative to throttle setting (horizontal line over the bar), that goes through the roof because the system cannot slow down fast enough.
WOW !
Now that is taking ...... I'm not sure where ...... 
I can accept ED may have simulated the Control System to maintain your current speed if you miss the minimum drop time (ie. less than 6.5sec);
but definitely not speed you up. That's like penalizing you as if it were an arcade game.
IMHO there is no scientific reason why your craft should speed up when there has been no change, increase or decrease, in your throttle setting.
And I would have thought this would be ED's scientific thinking as well; and there is another reason.
And that's where justification by me to reject your proposition falls down: I can't offer you an alternative, scientific reason.
Yes! I agree. It must have been a deliberate design move by ED.
But to me, why remains a mystery.
Oh! I like Quain, assumed it speed up because it sounds though it does !
I've never dropped out from Supercruise at a small body like a BEACON. I accept what other(s) said it did.
Now I am confused.
But if what Zieman says is right, it solves everything. ie. There is NO speeding up.
Well I've just had the biggest disasterous dropping out of Supercruise one would ever wish.
I was careering towards this planet in Supercruise and missed safe drop out.
So I'm banging on every key trying to slow down with the planet getting bigger and bigger in front of me. HEEEEEEELP !!!
I'm actually pressing back in my chair .... as this f'ing planet is about to swallow me up!
I'm thinking "WELL , THIS IS IT !!!!!! F*** !!!!! I'M BLOODY DEAD !!!! " .......... and ....... BANG !!! I drop out of Supercruise ......
I'm saved !!! 
I didn't know about auto drop-out did I ....
But the real funny bit was me pushing back in the bloody chair trying to save myself !!!
I was careering towards this planet in Supercruise and missed safe drop out.
So I'm banging on every key trying to slow down with the planet getting bigger and bigger in front of me. HEEEEEEELP !!!
I'm actually pressing back in my chair ....
as this f'ing planet is about to swallow me up!I'm thinking "WELL , THIS IS IT !!!!!! F*** !!!!! I'M BLOODY DEAD !!!! " .......... and ....... BANG !!! I drop out of Supercruise ......
I'm saved !!! I didn't know about auto drop-out did I ....
But the real funny bit was me pushing back in the bloody chair trying to save myself !!!
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That sounds a rational explanation from Zieman. The sounds of the ship and the appearance of the speed bar all combine to create the impression the ship starts to go faster, though.Oh! I like Quain, assumed it speed up because it sounds though it does !
I've never dropped out from Supercruise at a small body like a BEACON. I accept what other(s) said it did.
Now I am confused.
But if what Zieman says is right, it solves everything. ie. There is NO speeding up.
Well said Quain.
For an ELITE CMDR (which you are), to accept an alternative to what he believes, and which is possibly wrong, is admirable.
And I take my hat off to you Sir!
Is that to Zieman in Finish?
Haha, no.Is that to Zieman in Finish?
Looks more like Miamese or Los Angelesnese to me. Or maybe Londonese, Glasgowian or whatever.
I just watched the speed indication closely as I deliberately overshot a Notable Stellar Phenomenon beacon.
Zieman has definitely got the right answer - the speed is decreasing. Perhaps all the ship noise is meant to indicate the FSD struggling to slow the ship down rather than speed it up.
Anyway, mystery solved
Zieman has definitely got the right answer - the speed is decreasing. Perhaps all the ship noise is meant to indicate the FSD struggling to slow the ship down rather than speed it up.
Anyway, mystery solved
He's a bloody American, so maybe it's Indian ......... Red Indian.Haha, no.
Looks more like Miamese or Los Angelesnese to me. Or maybe Londonese, Glasgowian or whatever.
Good one.I just watched the speed indication closely as I deliberately overshot a Notable Stellar Phenomenon beacon.
Zieman has definitely got the right answer - the speed is decreasing. Perhaps all the ship noise is meant to indicate the FSD struggling to slow the ship down rather than speed it up.
Anyway, mystery solved
Haha, no.
Looks more like Miamese or Los Angelesnese to me. Or maybe Londonese, Glasgowian or whatever.
Clearly, that's Welsh
Fair dinkum ? And that's Australian.
Or maybe it Belgium French?
Cannot be welsh far too many vowels and two few triple and quadruple l’s.
Are you talking about Indigenous Americans?
This is where I've got confused.I always hit my 75% key at 10 seconds out, because I like have a bit more time for my reactions to kick in
You hit your 75% key at 10 sec out so as to achieve 75% throttle setting.
So when do you hit your <J> key to drop out of Supercruise?
Thanks.
PS. This is where my memory just lets me down again. I could do this backwards 2 years ago .....
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