Well I finally had spare time on a raw cloudy day, so I loaded up a saved game to go off and get a carrier! Plotting the courses of returning fighters I set off into the deep blue. Trying several different high speed courses in the same general direction, I had no luck at all. No help from radar or frequent hops under to check sonar. Planes continued to show up from the same general direction, though the frequency suddenly tapered off to none. After 7 retries of the saved game, I've concluded finding the carrier is like winning a billion in Powerball. Somebody might do it but it won't be me!!