Ok so I learned this the hard way. Most of you might already know. But here it is:
So we should all know that robigo passenger missions are the pest way to make money solo without engineering the living crap out of your combat ship to do massacre missions.
So yesterday I decided to go back to robigo because I wanted to make some more space dough. I built my glorious python again, and put a 5a scoop instead of the 5e cabin for the trip. When I get to ceos (one jump from robigo) I put the 5e cabin back in at Brunel Hub.
And then, just out of curiosity I look at the passenger lounge. And god. Look at all these sirius atmospherics missions! There's like 2x more than at robigo!
So I then I make a beluga right then and there. It's not even a-rated but whatever. I have passenger cabins for days! My thought process was as follows: Ceos is 1j closer than robigo. Burnel Hub is closer to ms than robigo mines. So all good, right?
Well no.
I pick up my passengers, go to sirius, scan the beacon, and get back to Burnel Hub. I boost to get as close as possible, then I pop a heatsink so I don't get scanned, enable auto docking to get on aligned tot he mail slot and then pop a second heatsink and go for silent running.
At least that was the plan.
I drop on the station, pop a heatsink, and get scanned. I go for silent running, which works. I'm like "Whew! That was close" I disable silent running to get aligned to the mail slot so I can boost in but then my docking computer screws me and instead of getting centered, it slams me into those poles around the slot. Great. then it turns me around at a weird angle and I can't get unstuck. I get scanned and pew pew pew and I find myself on a prison ship ~330ly away.
I'm like ok, that's on me I'll just land manually.
I go back repeat, and when I get back to the station, I can't request docking and turn on silent running fast enough. So guess what… yep! boom.
TL;DR: Use python at robigo. You will never be scanned and you will make almost the same amount of money. Have at least 30ly jump range and you'll make a loop in 4 jumps. Don't consider the Beluga, too big, and the stress of being scanned at a large station is just not worth the few extra mil fer run.
