School me on SONAR!!!

[fastfed]

I am in my IXC sailing all over the place BTW :) And I just got sonar.. I know its to figure out the distance between your U-boat and a ship, but how do I get it to work proper? When should I use it? NOw that I think about it, it might be useless for me since I do NOT do manual targeting and my P scope will tell me what the distance is automaticly.

Also everytime I click on the get target distance button it says target not selected. How do I select a target?

[jumpy]

I am in my IXC sailing all over the place BTW :) And I just got sonar.. I know its to figure out the distance between your U-boat and a ship, but how do I get it to work proper? When should I use it? NOw that I think about it, it might be useless for me since I do NOT do manual targeting and my P scope will tell me what the distance is automaticly.

Also everytime I click on the get target distance button it says target not selected. How do I select a target?
maybe you need active sonar to range to a target... only available for type XXI ?
not sure, only ever sailed VIIB/C varients, I expect someone else can confirm.

[Keelbuster]

Sonar's weird. You can go to the hydrophone station and ping a bearing, and you get a range. The thing is, if you keep pinging that bearing, the range gets smaller (more accurate?) in smaller and smaller steps, as if it's assymptoting. It's a bit annoying though because you have to ping the hell out of something to get a real range. The other problem is that you get a low-precision bearing reading of the hydrophone. All in all, i've had very little use for sonar. The stadimeter is quicker, and mostly more accurate. Perhaps sonar can help in extreme fog, against targets that aren't listening.

[Canovaro]

Perhaps sonar can help in extreme fog, against targets that aren't listening.

:yep: