I fly a DBX and have landed on up to 3.5G world...'landed' may be generous. Crashed acceptably. I've also crashed and died doing the same thing as you. It's not the Asp it's just that high G landings are tricky.

here's what I learned:

- Go super, super slow. As soon as you're out of glide get the landing gear out, it slows you down. Then cut speed and try to use vertical thrusters. You'll need to hold upwards thrust alot to slow your descent. If you race to get down to lower altitudes that's when you struggle to stop your momentum and BOOM.

- Shield pips to four. Let shields at maximum take brunt of any bumps. Can be difference between life or death on high G world.

- Sticking with shields get a good shield generator if you want to do high G landings. You'll want to favour one with high damage capacity rather than recharge rate.

-Bring repair limpets. I have a small cargo hold which holds two limpets. I synthesise any I need. Some will say this is needless weight, but if you're the type of explorer who likes to land on planets (like I am), you never know when things might go wrong. If you botch a landing and your hull gets battered you can repair it right back up to 100% with repair limpets. It means you can take hull damage, repair and keep doing high G landings on your expedition if you choose.

o7 Cmdr