Quagmire
10-24-07, 10:44 PM
OK. I am graduating to 100% realism now. Which means no map updates. I have been practicing with map updates on for now. What I do is try to plot manually and see if my plot matches up with the actual unit position. What I have found is that my plots are always off by a NM or so every time.
The reason is that the game doesnt give you many accurate plotting tools. Here is my method. When a target is detected on radar I use the PPI to get the bearing and then the A-Scope to get the range. The A-Scope is a little tricky. First it is very hard to pinpoint the distance value since the gradient marks are very broad. Second the scale is calibrated to meters x 100? What is up with that? I thought that I enabled Imperial, not Metric? Oh wait, I did. Gotta love those little practical jokes our Romainian devs like to play on us. So I have to convert meters to yards. No matter, I have a calculator handy. Next I have to convert yards to NM since the ruler tool is calibrated in NM! Nice one again Romania! You got me again. So with all the conversions done I stretch out the ruler and find that the tick marks are every .2 NM or so........ Golly those Romainians sure are pranksters....
Well looky here, they have one more joke up their sleeves. I get close enough to the target to spot it visually and when I ask my watch officer to give me the range he replies in FEET!!
Seriously folks. I am sure the USN wasnt pulling out the metric to imperial conversion wheels all the time. Why isnt everything calibrated to yards for imperial or meters for metric?
So to all you "full real" players out there. How do you make accurate plots with all this unit of measurment madness?
Thanks
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The reason is that the game doesnt give you many accurate plotting tools. Here is my method. When a target is detected on radar I use the PPI to get the bearing and then the A-Scope to get the range. The A-Scope is a little tricky. First it is very hard to pinpoint the distance value since the gradient marks are very broad. Second the scale is calibrated to meters x 100? What is up with that? I thought that I enabled Imperial, not Metric? Oh wait, I did. Gotta love those little practical jokes our Romainian devs like to play on us. So I have to convert meters to yards. No matter, I have a calculator handy. Next I have to convert yards to NM since the ruler tool is calibrated in NM! Nice one again Romania! You got me again. So with all the conversions done I stretch out the ruler and find that the tick marks are every .2 NM or so........ Golly those Romainians sure are pranksters....
Well looky here, they have one more joke up their sleeves. I get close enough to the target to spot it visually and when I ask my watch officer to give me the range he replies in FEET!!
Seriously folks. I am sure the USN wasnt pulling out the metric to imperial conversion wheels all the time. Why isnt everything calibrated to yards for imperial or meters for metric?
So to all you "full real" players out there. How do you make accurate plots with all this unit of measurment madness?
Thanks
.