I think as it stands at the moment your linepick simply does a pick down along the world Y axis? It may belp to have it pick down relative to ship orientation. Tformvector 0,-100,0, ship, 0. Linepick sx,sy,sz,tformedx(),tformedy(),tformedz() sort of thing. Of course this will still be thwarted if the track changes slope too quickly for the ship speed, and in this respect it will also depend on how fast you align the ship to the track with aligntovector. So your idea of doing more than one pick may be necessary. There could be other approaches though. As for the camera you perhaps could do a chase cam, I thought Ross had already done this though.