FLhook should have such a feature . but only if its activated on the server

I think FlShell has it as well, though it might be Admin only.

guess I could check into analyzing those mods to see how they do it

FlShell, isn't a mod its a FL tool that works alongside Freelancer. It gives you commands and allows you to choose a player spawn that the server ops have allowed.
Got to admit I do don't know anything about FLHook, though i'm guessing it would be a similar kind of thing.

It may be considered a tool but, it still has some interesting possibilities
might be able to set it up to do extra things in game that you normally couldn't
like the cargo scanning of players from anywhere that I was looking for
I wonder if it could be used to set up a way to deacivate a shield when two are on a ship and yet keep the other on still
would be helpful for doing pvp with my admin character and not losing the uber shield

I guess I could always make it an admin only command and rewrite the line so it can scan all ships
that'd be a sweet way to catch someone with cheat equipment or cargo without them suspecting a thing
I wonder if I could make a copy of that command that can be used admin only with all ships and still leave the original version that scans freighters only
I think I might just check that out and let you guys know if it works that way

Merlin, you keep on about this pet subject of yours regarding switching off shields mid flight. Understand this, it can't be done because of the way the shields are defined, you can't switch them around while in space, end of.

my main theme in this thread is the scan from anywhere ability in FLShell though
just wondering if there's a way to do it without the addon of flshell