Many thanks RR for the Airplane Avoidance with Radar Tutorial. It really helped me with that nagging problem right off the bat. Now I find myself jagging (is that a word?) around on the surface without worrying too much about losing the boat and crew to those pesky flying machines. Perfect!
I was thinking (which hurts) it might be nice if there were some way to drag the five-mile circle around with the boat, like Peanuts' Linus van Pelt's security blanket, without having to move it around manually. But then again isn't there an old saw about being careful of what you wish for? It might be better to have a dedicated key on the keyboard to toggle it on and off as needed...or not. Probably not.
At any rate, even though I know you can't have everything, and I don't want everything anyway, I've learned just enough to know that you can have your cake and eat it too, as long as you don't eat the last bite.
