Did a measurement of the height of Mount Wesley, as best as I can tell it's 30.6km high, +/- 200m. @_@
What is the proper way to measure this? Any pointers to some guide/help on that topic? 15km from dropping out of supercruise (75km) to fully descend to the top of the mountain seemed about right to me?
Hate to say it but I concur with Numenor. Spent my final afternoon on the mountain today which thankfully had a bit of light on it. Did one last base jump and then did some measuring. I made it 30.6km even before checking back here to see what Numenor had suggested.
The way I did this was to fly away from the mountain so I could see it all and gauge its peak, then fly to the peak, get the ship dead level and bumping on the ground, and then fly away again, keeping dead level (i.e. attitute exactly on 0°). Keep flying at 0° until you're over level ground in the distance (check by rolling) and the altitude is no longer increasing. This mountain has a pretty gradual gradient so it takes a while to get to this point but yeah - I made it 30.6km.
What is the proper way to measure this? Any pointers to some guide/help on that topic? 15km from dropping out of supercruise (75km) to fully descend to the top of the mountain seemed about right to me?
Hope you don't mind me posting my little adventure climbing up Mt. Wesley in my SRV. Since I carry only one in the hangar I figured it would be more save to drive up the mountain instead of falling down from it
The report:
Unfortunately it was still or again dark outside when I woke up the other day on Smojai IT-P D6-2 A 2 A. So I took of in the ship and tried to do some more recon utilizing night vision. I went up to the spot where CMDR Ex did his second base jump. Noticed the place to be already ~4km below the highest point? From there I continued north with the ship in level flight until I had ~21km clearance above ground. There I settled down and got the SRV out.
It was dark down there but most of the mountain above was lit up, and there is always Night Vision, just in case ... Anyways: now or never! And I might be right in time to greet the New Year from the top!
I went straight on a 180° heading. Terrain was good, easy drive. Hardly noticed how it became more steep every other minute. Look at the pictures below for some more testimony of the plain AWESOMENESS OF OUR SRVs I must have made it halfway up, driving against or sideways the wall at > 60°. Then a tiny moment of inattention and a small jump pushed me away from the wall: I fell down at least half of what I got up already :-(
With the SRV still in good shape I headed west for some kind of saddle between two higher parts of the mountain. Should be able to climb the top from there, right? And off we go.
It was quite a ride, terrain became very rippled/wavy but I made it safely to the saddle and from there to the Jump Spot.
But, that's not the top of the mountain yet! According to my own mapping I had to go farther south to reach that high plateau that seems to be the top of the mountain. So, I had to cross that saddle that I came up earlier. More bumps/ripples/waves to go through. But all relatively save, no steep climbs/declines anymore. Just something to get through. Once I found some cargo and called in the ship to stow it away. Another time I came across a not-so-lucky SRV - crashed, with more cargo lying around. And then - after approx. 130km! drive - I made it to the top! Unfortunately, still mostly dark around, no nice view besides the stars.
There I stopped, with still some hours until the End of the Year. Sadly, I wasn't prepared for that: no Fireworks in the ship storage to greet the New Year properly:-(
Some pics:
Locations as mapped by me:
Base 1 is where I stayed over night in the ship.
Base North: where I started today
Base Jump DX: ~ the location of CMDR DasExorcist 2nd. base jump, my target
Red: first, failed attempt
Green: successful climb
From there I continued to what seemed one of the highest locations, as mapped earlier from the ship, marked Mount Wesley:
Hovering 21km over Base North:
Down at Base North, still dark but that would change soon
The plan: just go up there!
Check the HUD and the Radar, amazing! The Buggy worked even better than back on that Ice moon that I went around
That happened twice during the trip :-(
Getting out and back into the game fixed it each time.
On the saddle, towards the jump point:
Jump Point, CMDR Ex Base jump 2. I won't follow that today!
Towards the actual peak:
Ups!
At the top!
Missing Pic: Fireworks, due to not being prepared for that :-(
Happy New Year!
CMDR Explorix
Absolutely fantastic!Actually, less of a base jump and more of a "wingsuit flight"
I've measured it at 41.6 km and 36 km from two different sides. Any idea how high Neverest is?
CMDR Ex
If anyone wants to have an idea how far away from the bubble this system is, Smojai IT-P d6-2 is 3452.4 Ly from Sol.
Woo hoooo! Really nice. Pretty amazing that your first bounce when you hit the ground at the bottom did zero damage!One awesome fall.