Max_Rebo said:
The falcon leaves Jakku and is immediately picked up by Solo, so either he was in the area or he was somehow able to detect it and instantly arrive via hyperspace, he said it was easy to track, but tracking ships from a long distance isn’t really a thing that can be done in the Star Wars universe (I can’t think of other examples from the films), but maybe he had previously installed a homing beacon.A homing beacon was mentioned. And the bad guys on the Death Star did track the Falcon to the secret rebel base on Yavin, if you remember.
I don’t remember a homing beacon being mentioned, must have missed it, but it was still damn quick from the falcon entering space to Solo arriving, even if the beacon activated when the ship first powered up.
The falcon was tracked to Yavin because of a homing beacon, without that it would not have been possible, which was my point.
There may have been cuts that compressed the amount of time they were drifting making repairs. The homing beacon could have come on the moment the ship was powered up on Jakku, (it was said it had not flown in years) and Han set course in that direction soon as he detected it.