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Originally Posted by oRGy
Nice work Ducimus. Didn't know you could do this. The only thing is that the aircraft spotting seems very high compared to reality; visually spotting a sub across miles of sea was hard, but more importantly, I don't see how you could physically see further than 30km even in perfect conditions...
Otherwise,  Hope the GWX team take note of this. |
The ranges that we've posted and sometimes discuss are not a numbers that we simply pulled out of our hats.
Regarding aircraft spotting U-boats, I've done deep research into this area/field personally. Very often you could see the wake LONG before aircraft radar or any on-board mark-1 eyeballs picked up the actual sub itself sub.
Then, there is the whole thing concerning oil slicks... not represented in SH3.
The definitive and primary source of information concerning aircraft vs. U-boats in GWX was "Dark Sky, Deep Water" by Norman Franks.
Something else that you must understand regarding the visual sensors in GWX as they stand in general. They yield a POTENTIAL (not a certainty) of seeing a reasonable distance based on first hand accounts and modern range estimations from a known point to another known point.
You can indeed see 30 km on a clear day. (In GWX we are limited to 16km for obvious reasons.)
This POTENTIAL spotting is influenced by several atmospheric variables.
Also, ship-mounted optics were REGULARLY superior/more powerful, and greater in number, than available U-boat optics and were set at higher elevations ergo yielding higher potential ranges.
Read page 10 of the GWX manual, though it is and will likely remain fairly general in nature, it may shed a little light on the subject.