Travel Times

I have a MegaTraveller Question that frankly has be baffled.  I was computing
orbital periods and distances between the Gas Giant and main worlds.  I was
trying to compute the travel time between the gas giant and the main world.

Now my main world was at 4.0 AU (habitable temperature for a world around a F1v
star).  Now the habitable zone for an F1v star is orbit 5 (2.8 AU) but that was
way too hot, so I moved it back until the temperature came within reason.
My closest gas giant was in orbit 9, or about 38.8 AU.  Now they give a
calculation of 150 Million Kilometers = 1 AU.  This isn't very accurate, but it
is close.  For the sake of argument, we will use the distances in KM as
provided for 2.8 AU to 38.8 AU.  The net distance if the worlds were at their
closest would be 5,804 Million KM - 418.9 (round to 419) Million KM or
5,386 Million KM.

Ok now to change gears for a second.  If a 1G vessel takes  8 hours to move
from a size 8 world to 100 diameters, that would imply a mean vessel speed of
100,000 miles/hour (Size 8 world = 8,000 mile diameter * 100 diameters =
800,000 miles / 8 hours = 100,000 miles)  Or 160,000 KM/hour. Now I know that
acceleration is constant to the mid point, thus the ship can achieve higher
velocities, however there must be a maximum velocity where the thrust can
no longer accelerate the craft.

The travel time, if we assume a max speed of 160,000 km/h would be about 3365
hours or about 140 days.

Now figuring that the folks at GDW had ran into this questions the mention
something about an "In System Transfer" in the Imperial Encyclopedia under
travel, but they mention nothing more about times or methods other than to say
that you use "In System Transfer" to get to a gas giant.  I remember a journal
article on the subject where you "goosed" the jump drives, but it goes against
all normal jump drive rules.  No to mention that the fuel consumption would
make gas giant refueling impractical.

Does any one have any light on
  a) In system Transfer
  b) Better time computations to and from Gas Giants.

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in Advance, Rob
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