Newcomer / Intro Trouble completing Travel training

[Charlatan]

I've been running the training missions and for the most part, I sort of know what I'm doing.

However, there is one part of the Travel training that more often than not stymies me - the final landing portion!

I have been able to successfully complete the Docking training, and I have a good idea what to do. But most of the Travel training missions I can't complete. Here's what happens:

- I jump to the Destination system
- Target the Destination Station
- Drop out of Supercruise
- Approach station
- Request permission to land
- Drop my gear

and I spend 10 minutes searching for the landing pad. I believe this is a station where the pads are on th exterior of the station. I see NO indication of where the pads are, no numbers, nothing illuminated on the station except lighting coming from the model. I see the pad on the radar, I try to line up with it but I can never see it visually (and the station is rotating which makes it doubly difficult to even examine it, much less land on it). It's frustrating!

One time I ran this mission, the destination station was identical to the type you find in the Docking training (i.e., the type of station you fly into). But every time the destination station is the type you (apparently) land on, I can't complete it.

Does this training mission bug out, or is there some reason I can't see the pad number and/or indicators?

 

[InfiniteGremlins]

Outposts are slightly trickier. I don't know if the mission itself is bugged, but here are some outpost tips. Also, outposts mostly don't rotate, so you might be at a Coriolis station, which does have interior pads. (If it is a Coriolis, target the station and look at the hologram: the arrows point toward the front side.)

- Outposts are modular assembled block structures with lots of bits pointing out at angles.
- Outposts have only 3-5 landing pads, mostly on one or two sides of the station. If you don't see any, fly around to the other side.
- The small blue circular directional indicator will point directly toward your assigned landing pad.

Coriolis station:

Outpost:

 

[Sloppy Pilot]

some time the pads don't illuminate properly, might even go dark.
Never fear you got your trusty compass.
The little blue one that you use when navigating to planets or other solar systems.
It will show you where to enter the station and where to land.