…with both hands, even.
(Just finishing up a Star Wars rewatch with The Rise of Skywalker, and headdesking at the inability of the Final Order fleet to leave Exegol without a navigational signal.
You’re on a planet (which has atmospheric stuff interfering with your navigation, etc.). You want to not be on a planet. All you have to do is go in the direction that gravity isn’t.
How hard can this possibly be? Just turn up the repulsorlifts!)
The only excuse I could think of is that something in the atmosphere is so fucky that there are only very limited safe paths for ships (in general, or just of that size) to be able to transit through. But that also opens up a whole bunch of new plotholes.
I see in the Darths & Droids take on Episode IX they made Exegol have a liquid atmosphere, based on those oxygen-saturated fluorocarbons used for high-pressure diving. Which is so gloriously fucky I may have to find an excuse to use it somewhere myself.
Not sure it’s the right kind of fucky for this, though.