The Autopilot: friend or foe?
Almost everybody uses it, although it can be a pain in the neck some- times: the Autopilot. It’s a great tool to get you safely from one docking station to the next while the Commander’s reading the papers, or using Time Control to skip travel-time. The downside is, that the Autopilot doesn’t handle ‘objects in between’ very well. It also has the tendency to crash into planets, instead of shutting down in time, and reporting to the commander that the target is near. I must say that the autopilot functions best in maximum time acceleration mode. Example: You launch from an orbital station and set your autopilot destination to a star port on the planet surface. If you press ALT-F3 to accelerate time, you’ll see the planet approach, you’ll see the autopilot trying to get on the other side in a rather clumsy process, and chances are you’ll see the planet approach too fast, and you’ll crash. When you launch and press ALT-F5 (maximum time acceleration) you’ll find that the moment you switch
