Frame shift drive

[manu450]

I have a problem and I don’t know what is going on. When I try to approache a planet, the frameshift drive disengage too far, and I have to boost over and over and it’s not getting closer, so I can’t land my ship or get close enough to a planet to explore it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[BLACK®]

is it a planet you can land on ??
Check your system map for a "blue" half ring.

This sounds like a high dense atmo. planet.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Dive sharper - you can do it just below 60 degrees. Slowly increase your throttle as you approach (the throttle increase speed depends on a planet's gravity). Try to keep your speed around 8 secs to target. Above 6 is better, but there is a danger to fall below 6 and then you will get an emergency drop for going too fast. When you start gliding - don't deviate from your path too much, or you will leave the FSD wake and the glide will stop.

[@Dave@]

Originally posted by manu450:

I have a problem and I don’t know what is going on. When I try to approache a planet, the frameshift drive disengage too far, and I have to boost over and over and it’s not getting closer, so I can’t land my ship or get close enough to a planet to explore it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have you landed on planets before ? . Are you new to elite ?
I found this to help you , if its not for you theres a few to look at .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBEF7_o7Ok

[ShelLuser]

If a planet doesn't have an obvious blue line around it then you cannot land on it.

[Sighman]

Frontier messed up by using a blue sphere to indicate atmosphere, which confuses matters.

The blue semi-circle is the important one. It indicates a landable planet. However, it doesn't indicate 'walkable' because you need to check the temperature for that.

What they actually need is something like a green stick figure (= always walkable), an orange stick figure (= check the temperature, dark side may be okay) or a red stick figure (= no walking ever)

[Moose37]

Originally posted by Sighman:

What they actually need is something like a green stick figure (= always walkable), an orange stick figure (= check the temperature, dark side may be okay) or a red stick figure (= no walking ever)

Or just use these colors for the semi-circle.

I don't quite understand why they introduced that "halo" to indicate atmo. In Horizons I had no problem distinguishing between atmospheric and airless bodies. Looks to me like fixing what isn't broken.

[manu450]

Originally posted by BLACK®:

is it a planet you can land on ??
Check your system map for a "blue" half ring.

This sounds like a high dense atmo. planet.

Maybe you’re right loll, did they reduced the amount of planet you can land on now? Thought I could land on because of the large blue ring around it, but I guess not.

[Landstander]

does the tutorial not teach how to do this?