Glad we could have this conversation
Sensei answers FA-Off challenge
- Thread starter Sensei Jacksama
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Thanks for giving me an excuse to buy another new ship, I've genuinely never owned a Beluga (iirc) so it's a rare treat to have a brand new cockpit to look around - it's huge!
Perhaps foolishly I bought it at Jameson Memorial which meant there were plenty of other commanders around to witness me getting firmly wedged in the mailslot on my very first station departure. I came very close to having the station clear the slot with extreme prejudice but luckily a combination of wiggling, boosting and toggling the landing gear finally got me loose and away. I decided to head for Garay Terminal (scene of the OP's video), mostly 'cos I couldn't be bothered to trek all the way back to Artemis Lodge again.
So firstly, let's have a go at that trench.
OK, so I wasn't able to move along the trench ... but I got in! I'm counting that as a win.
And now for that FA Off landing we spoke about.
Tada!
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Well Op that's a nice starting point for sure.
Full FA OFF in every game activity with every ship available is, however, another thing.
I switched to FA OFF more than one year ago and to this day there are some things i can't do.
And i'm not talking about fancy acrobatics with small ships.
To me the most difficult fa off activity is landing on a planetary outpost in >2G enviroment with anything bigger than a small ship, without taking any risk.
I can sometimes pull that off in a Krait, but in a loaded T9...... that's impossible to me.
And even when tossing around a T9 i do anything fa off with it, apart from that.
Full FA OFF in every game activity with every ship available is, however, another thing.
I switched to FA OFF more than one year ago and to this day there are some things i can't do.
And i'm not talking about fancy acrobatics with small ships.
To me the most difficult fa off activity is landing on a planetary outpost in >2G enviroment with anything bigger than a small ship, without taking any risk.
I can sometimes pull that off in a Krait, but in a loaded T9...... that's impossible to me.
And even when tossing around a T9 i do anything fa off with it, apart from that.
You: "Please, trench, please, please..."
Trench: "YOU ARE DENIED!"
But the landing was good, mate!
I'm honestly surprised you actually got it inside at all. I'd definitely call that a win. It's crazy how small it looks and feels but there's actually much more room than you'd think.
My long term goal is to become well enough at FA OFF that I can use it effectively in combat. That's why I started training in this because I've hit a hard ceiling in pvp and AX combat and after some soul searching I've come to the conclusion that I cannot grow in those areas until I've masterd fa off. That being said I don't think I'd really want to go full 100% fa off; but at the same time if you told me 2 years ago I'd be doing trench runs I would have laughed at you.
High G landings are hard in any ship even with flight assist. Im surprised you can land in any gravity with fa off. Lol
Docking like a boss!
Absolute class Alec, brilliant thank you.
Very persistent with the Channel, bit of lateral thinking.
If you pulled that spin move off in the first take I am uninstalling Elite as I am not worthy
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Still bloody impressiveShhhh, don't tell anyone else ... but it was the 4th attempt, and I consider myself lucky at that!
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To each his own of course. But to me any activity in ED is so much better in Fa off. I would not limit myself to combat only.
God speed on you training