Now since my airplane avoidance strategy involves sitting at the nav map I have lots of experience with the range at which planes detect you. Now if you are on the surface in the daytime I've never had a plane see me outside of six miles away in stock or GFO. I used a five mile circle with no problem in TMO. But I'll bet their visual acuity was the same and that they could detect you six miles out on an exceptional day.

When at radar depth I haven't had a plane see me outside of 2½ miles. Most of the time you're safe if they don't come closer than 1 mile.

I think visual acuity of enemy pilots is one of the least broken parts of the game.:up:

no, no, no, its the wrong aspect you are looking at.

im talking about standing on deck or the bridge with the plane approaching you and its invisible until its less then 500 yards from you so you cant see a plane even if you know the exact direction and bearing its coming from, that's the problem!

basically it only appears "visible" when its right above your sub