another thing people seems to forget about this fliping nonsense, if it's a solution to stop a ship on a thousands km trajectory with a clear path, in Avorion we have 15km to 40 km from the gate to a destination with 1000 asteroids in the way.
Fliping a 500k tons battleship in the middle of an asteroid field at 4 km of a station to dock is just absurd, not fun at all and a guarantee fail.
I'm at 245 hours of gameplay mostly in Hard/insane difficulty, i admit a couple of iron/titanium lost ships due to npc and literally all my ships are lost to asteroid/station docking.
There will always be a moment where you're not cautious enough, or you don't see the asteroid in the sun, or you miscalculate your trajectory and crash your ship.
I'm at the point where i don't realy want to play anymore because i already know what's going to happens. i'm going to have fun until i loose another ship on a station or an asteroid exactly like the other 20 ones.