What is the point of the countdown timer while in supercruise?

[betc]

as said bind key to 75%
hit it at roughly 7sec
stick on 6sec the whole way in
full throttle again at 5Mm

I have an x52, my slider on the throttle has 100% and 75% throttle bound to top and bottom respectively. i move between these two bindings for the entire supercruise . works a treat

 

[Para Handy]

No inertia in supercruise, where you point is where you're going. It's a good thing really cos you'd suddenly find yourself weighing more than the universe, which would be embarrassing.

Which is what makes the "g effect" head movement a real stupid feature.

 

[mossfoot]

loop of shame.

Genuine LOLs here dude.

I know, I love it

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I'd like to find a way to "fix" your cruise control so that you don't accelerate or decelerate at all until you turn it back on. That way, say you're going to a station but you need to do some IRL project, you could set the speed so that your ETA is about 10 minutes or so, then kill the cruise control so that the speed stays fixed. That way you know you got 10 minutes till you reach your destination and can do IRL stuff.

 

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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76212

 

[CmdrJacks]

I know, I love it

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I'd like to find a way to "fix" your cruise control so that you don't accelerate or decelerate at all until you turn it back on. That way, say you're going to a station but you need to do some IRL project, you could set the speed so that your ETA is about 10 minutes or so, then kill the cruise control so that the speed stays fixed. That way you know you got 10 minutes till you reach your destination and can do IRL stuff.

You can do this in a way. By selecting a destination beyond where you're actually going can sometimes fool your computer into not slowing down too soon. It seems hit and miss though.

 

[M00ka]

The 5-6 second rule with planet gravity wells and a higher % chance of loop of shame.

I don't do the Loop of Shame, just sometimes I decide to fly in a circle and come in from a different vector

 

[Himmel Tropf]

Hells yeah.
Crank to 0.05. then spin it!