Pilots Guide

This guide is designed to help new and experienced pilots utilize their spaceship. The Sidewinder is used as an example, but the concepts are applicable to all ships in Elite Dangerous. The Careers page has an overview of pursuable vocations.

Sidewinder Cockpit Interface

Codex

Commander stats in the Codex

The Codex shows information and stats of your findings, progress, session logs and a curated archive of your discoveries.

The Homepage has the most important stats with a full body image of your Commander. You can customize the appearance with Holo-Me.

The Discoveries section shows 42 galactic regions with things that players found and things that aren't discovered yet. For example within a star system there are stars, planets, terrestrials, gas giants, species, settlements, generation ships, text and audio logs etc.

The Knowledge Base has encyclopedia-style lore topics about e.g. historical events, important characters, factions and alien species.

The Pilot's Handbook has detailed information about possible activities, ship outfitting and more. There's also a news feed.

Guides

New pilots should check the following guides. Note: some guides may have outdated information.

• Elite: Dangerous Pilot Training Tutorials
• Elite Dangerous: Horizons Training Guides
• Official Players Guide (latest version), other languages
  • Official Players Guide (XBOX) (latest version)
  • Official Players Guide (PS4) (latest version)
• EXO Pilot's Manual (dead link)
• The Guide for Almost Everything
• Forger's "Elite Pilots Guide"
• Technophebe's "Harmless' Guide to the Galaxy"
• Elite Dangerous – a comprehensive beginner's guide
• Blazing your own trail in Elite: Dangerous: profession overview overview and insightful starting information for each profession.
• A visual guide to exploration
• Lave Wiki Tutorials

For support issues check the following places before submitting a ticket:

• Official FAQ
• Official game support forum
• Official customer support
• The Galactic Academy is a portal for new and inexperienced Commanders to get help and support.

Epic Games version support guides:

• Account Help for new Elite players from the Epic Games Store
• Link your Frontier account to your Epic Games account
• How do I log into Elite Dangerous through the Epic Games Launcher

Pilot Training

These videos outline the basics of Elite Dangerous for new players.

• File:Elite Dangerous Pilot Training - Basic Flight Controls
• File:Elite Dangerous Pilot Training - Docking
• File:Elite Dangerous Pilot Training - Travel
• File:Elite Dangerous Pilot Training - Basic Combat
• File:Elite Dangerous Pilot Training - Galaxy And System Map
• File:Landing - Elite Dangerous Horizons Pilot Training
• File:Powerplay Training Part 1 Overview
• File:Powerplay Training Part 2 Preparation
• File:Powerplay Training Part 3 Expansion
• File:Powerplay Training Part 4 Control
• File:Elite Dangerous Pilot Tutorials - CQC

Fan-Made Video Guides

• File:Elite Dangerous Lore Introduction - A definitive guide for new players
• File:Elite Dangerous Timeline - A definitive guide for new players, part 2.
• File:How To Play Elite Dangerous, 2019 The Essential Quick Start Tutorial for New Players
• File:Quick Start Guide - Elite Dangerous Odyssey

Ship HUD

The HUD, also known as a "head-up display" or "heads-up display", is how all information inside of a ship is displayed in Elite Dangerous. <tabview> HUD/Center|Ship: Center HUD/Right|Ship: Right HUD/Left|Ship: Left HUD/Down|Ship: Down HUD/Odyssey|On foot (Odyssey) </tabview>

Gallery

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  Cobra cockpit interface
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  Sidewinder cockpit interface
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  Planetary Flight HUD

See Also

• Careers
• Supercruise
• Hyperspace
• Docking
• Flight Assist
• FSD Supercharging
• HOTAS Key Bindings
• Guides