When you get a sighting report: Take your ruler and draw a line representing the course of your possible target. Then, take the square ruler thingie and draw a course to somewhere where you think you will intercept the target. It will show the time enroute. Calculate how far the target will travel in that time period. Take your dividers and draw a circle of that distance. Adjust your course and voila, you will probably meet your target there.:D

You can always try the grids that run along the top of the northern coast of Scotland. I've never failed to find some loners running east or west in there. Again about 50-100 km's north of the coast is about right.

my, you are a clever lot. I am torn between tugging on Doenitz's sleeve and slugging it out with the 'little beaut'... I think, for a while I will stick with the IIA, simply because, in real-life I know darn well I wouldn't be doing more than scrubbing the decks, I know so little - and the learning curve is a challenge I want to rise to.

I didn't know, until yesterday that I could work the sonar myself, or that there was a shipping lane chart. I had known about asking the navigator to plot the max distance etc, but had not seen the significance of it in respect of fuel conservation. Each time I come on here you teach me a little more. :up:

Tis what our life is for
:doh:
Wait I mean ................ ummmm
No thats basically it

:know::rotfl:

Just a short question concerning your signature: You are aware that it doesn't make any sense?:p

come now Mr Hyperion sir, where is your perspicacity, your grasp of the quirky? Look again - it makes PERFECT sense if you hold your mouth right when you squint at it one-eyed from beneath furrowed brows and with the sun casting muted dapples from an oblique angle behind your right shoulder! Hmph:smug:

Oh, now I see! My bad that I didn't see it right away.:p:lol::rotfl:

aha see - just gotta hold yer mouth right. However, while we are on the subject of sigs, yours is..err. well, I can only make out the second word in morse. Guess I have to hold MY mouth right too !

Enter morse code translator or something like that in Google...

I bet he doesn't even know morse code himself ;)

perhaps my morse skills need brushing up - translator you say..hmm, could be useful!:)

:hmm:
Desperately awaiting SH4

Or so it seems

ahh, I thought the first word might be desperately, but I did not have exactly that - and I couldn't work out SH4. Best I could do was SHH. Dumbkopf!:damn:

Nah thats what I got too but type in Desperately awaiting SH4 and the morse comes out the same :up:

hes sig means

desperatly awaiting SH4

and if you wanna check ur self
go to wikipedia.org and type in morse code in the search