Kasumi GotoThanks for the tip, the Beluga has also another problem, it is wide, and can easily got stock at the gate when you get out manually...
Fly it like the Cutter - center of the mail slot only, try to stay central in height as well as width. Someone really should have upgraded the design for current-day ships in the universe... nostalgia be damned. The 'mail slot' is really awful when you think about it.
If the Beluga's tail does get stuck, landing gear lowering/retracting is said to provide you with a moment of 'no-clip' that can free you from such situations. General advice I hear, never flown one myself, don't intend to. It's a luxury space whale, and I don't care to fly luxury space whales.
And some ships do have better thermal performance than others(looking at you, Dolphin). Not sure about the Beluga, but definitely don't hear great things about the Type-7 'Lakon Brick'(it literally looks like a brick with engines strapped to it). Still, an A rated plant with low emissions or armored engineering(as both provide a bonus to efficiency) will go a long way, if you can afford to put either on.
If you decide to use D rated and/or overcharged? Don't be surprised if it cooks itself (or tries to) just charging the FSD. Heck, even an A rated overcharged plant can cause you trouble and leave a rather small margin of error when parked next to a star for scooping.
All true.
I won't bother sorting it out, I just want to do some missions for materials and Credit, although it's far from being as good as Robigo mines/Sothis runs. at least I do something. on the other hand, I took my Vette out for some assassination missions, I haven't find an Azardous Extraction site populated enough to resume bounty hunting. I'll keep looking.
The Type-7 has a poor reputation but I managed to turn it into some acceptable medium hauler, properly handled it doesn't cook itself and I'm not finished optimizing it (FSD Thermal Spread instead of Mass Manager), what I like with this ship is its speed and maneuverability compared to similar ships.
For the moment, better not use the boost before engaging FSD, then it stays below 100° and I got 41.28/59.93 Ly out of it, probably a little less after I change the Experimental effect for comfort, and 280/487 M/S which is good enough to stay out of trouble, at the end it's not as terrible as its reputation is.
I think my problem is that I got used to engineering ships which are not so hard on upgrades (Krait/Python/Corvette), I knew (Youtube Video-The Pilot) that the Beluga overheated but not that it was that bad, I exchanged it for the Orca, sold the big modules re-equipped it and it is not fully engineered but it goes fine.
