See FTL Near A Sun II.
"You didn't normally risk hyperdrive this near a planet or a sun. Matter density was too great, as was the chance of gravitation desynchronizing your quantum jumps." (p. 345)
Flandry is pursued:
"'...one skipper's decided to be brave and copy us. He got away with it, too, and locked onto our 'wake.'" (ibid.)
Here, explicitly, are two reasons to avoid hyperdrive inside a planetary system.
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Kaor, Paul!
And it seems your chances of getting away with using hyperdrive too near a sun or a planet are higher if your boat or ship is small. Like Flandry's scout boat or even a destroyer. Even that clumsy gold plated hulk of a yatch we see Flandry using many years later in Chapter I of WE CLAIM THESE STARS may have been small enough to use the hyperdrive if an expert pilot like Chives thought it was safe enough to do.
Ad astra! Sean
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