The biggest difficulty with your method is TC.

I say that only because I'm doing basically the same thing as you and find it impossible to cover larger distances in reasonable game play time. I will only use TC when on surface and with no threats present. So I find in heavy plane traffic areas it takes forever (real time) bobbing above and below continually.

However I will continue to use this method only now with Rockin Robbins refinements which are superior to my own sloppy way.

Now any suggestions on getting somewhere without spending hours of real-time traveling between objectives?

Drawing those cones is one thing I wasn't doing but should help me stay in routes with lest air travel. Its just that there are hours in SH4 where all I do is try to get from one place to another. I tell myself it gives me a better taste for what it was like for a real submariner. Long journeys with short periods of time with intense emotions.

I find you should dive to pd in daylight. Stick the radar up and dive deep when a plane comes over you. I try to get 128 or 512 TC but it keeps getting bumped to 8. :shifty:

Assuming you have radar you can easily travel longer distances or between patrol areas at up to 2K TC and still have plenty of time to dive to 100' to avoid the planes that come into your cone area.

I patrol during the day on the surface at 128 to 256 and at night up to 512 and never have a problem with planes.

I have that damn Osaka recon mission. I put TC up then planes came out of nowhere and found me.:shifty: