[finchOU]

So there is an option to scale the distance for your TC to drop to 1 when a radio contact report is within X distance. Anything outside of that distance will only go to the Captains log (depending on your Realism settings it will or will not appear on the Nav Map I think).

In Game, go to the upper right hand corner UI and it's on of those options...I don't remember what the default is ...but its around 500-600 km i think? The reason this option is there is to filter out those distant Contact reports so that you don't drop your TC all the time for something you might not want to try and intercept. Its a nice feature IMHO.