This is the way that SH3 is, especialy with GWX, first the test, then the lesson. ABut maning the flak gun while the watch crew is on dutyi s impossible as far as i know.

No, you can´t have have watch crew and flak crew. But you can have your WO and flak crew, that helps a lot when fighting planes.
I think that in real life they had the watch crew on the bridge at all times when the boat was on the surface, not leaving the plane spotting to the flak gunner alone.

Important: you can also ask the Watch officer where the closest contact is. He will give you a bearing and range quite accurately. If you ever decide to pick up manual targeting again, and i think you will, then this is a lot easier than getting range using the stadimeter in the UZO. OF course, this can only be done on the surface.

About that second part, that's kind of the fun of Silent Hunter III, that you are always a bit better than the crew, so you can leave the work to them, but it's always better to do it yourself.

Have fun!
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Actually, it might, if airspeed is in knots, and there is a sine scale of some sort. You would just have to mentally move the decimal point, so 160 knots would be 16 or 1.6 knots.

For my 'unobtrusive' play, I carry a small 6" Pickett linear slide rule. All you need are the C, D, and S scales.

I still use it regularly. I was a morse interceptor in the Army, back 20+ years ago, and I never lost the urge to use it. Whenever I get on HF, 95% of the time it is CW, and I use a straight key exclusively (which freaks out the guys using bugs and paddles, when they learn I'm hangin' using a straight key).

I need to get a new driver and finals for my TS-520 though. I'm only getting about 50-60 watts out, when I should be getting 100+.

I know someone answered this already, but no.

Yeah, P.B.... That's nice that you were able to stay with it. I was never very good with the bug..just couldn't get the hang of the side tap.
I had a lot of friends in Alaska back in lthe 60's that were Ham radio operators & we use to have a lot of fun conversing with people all over the world. Actually, during the Alaska earthquake on March 27 @ 5:37 pm in 1964, the Ham's were the only ones that were able to get the word out to the lower 48 because the whole state was without power... Ham's usually had their own backup power..

Hams are almost always the *ONLY* ones who can communicate in a real emergency.

You should go get your license. You don't need to know morse anymore for *ANY* ham radio license (but of course we encourage it).