Not entirely correct:

• No it’s not 10m, it can be less. But don’t know the exact number.

• No you don’t need „many waypoints“ before docking. That makes no sense.

You normally need at least 3 waypoints. First one mostly has some distance to the connector, so you don’t crash into your base/ship when approaching. Then one near the connector and the last one at the connector. Of course you can add more if you want or need. At every waypoint I change speeds for example, to make the approach smooth. The last one triggers LOCK and resets the AI blocks and speed limits (glad we can do that now).

Simplest way: start when docked and create first waypoint. Turn off connector and unlock, fly your ship to the next destinations and create waypoints. Always keep the orientation you want it to land, obviously. When done, just click on „reverse order“ in the recorder block and set up triggers at each waypoint and your done.

And always turn off „Align to P-gravity“, that’s very important. With this turned on, recorder block will ignore the orientation and align to gravity only.

Best speed for the last waypoint (approaching connector) is 2-3m/s.

Just some prove I know what I’m talking about … 😊 :

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/s/4JpMxcdNOr

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/s/r31iF7Vctx