Scanning the FSD wake from supercruise

[Passiday]

So, I had this Orca whom I battered with my Cobra, and it decided to run. No problem, I used the wake scanner to pursue them. Some more battering, but the guy is big. Another escape, another scanning and jump. But now I find myself in a system with no contacts, just one FSD wake on my sensor. I tried to jump off in the vicinity of it, just to find myself in blank nothingness. When returned to the supercruise, the white mark on the sensor was gone.

I sincerely don't remember whether I disembarked from SC when at safe distance and safe speed, to let the auto-lock engage, but I think I did.

This thread raises the question, but doesn't give any answers https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=55531

Perhaps there are higher-class wake scanners to retrieve the jump information without leaving SC?

 

[777Driver]

So, I had this Orca whom I battered with my Cobra, and it decided to run. No problem, I used the wake scanner to pursue them. Some more battering, but the guy is big. Another escape, another scanning and jump. But now I find myself in a system with no contacts, just one FSD wake on my sensor. I tried to jump off in the vicinity of it, just to find myself in blank nothingness. When returned to the supercruise, the white mark on the sensor was gone.

I sincerely don't remember whether I disembarked from SC when at safe distance and safe speed, to let the auto-lock engage, but I think I did.

This thread raises the question, but doesn't give any answers https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=55531

Perhaps there are higher-class wake scanners to retrieve the jump information without leaving SC?

I am curios about this too. Started pulling someone out of SC, they jumped, I couldn't charge my wake scanner in SC, dropped out of warp and the wake had vanished.

Reading comments from the Devs suggest you can only scan while in normal space... you can drop out on a low energy wake while in SC, but for some reason you cannot follow a High energy wake in SC