Updated: July 31/10

Now with more TDC Goodness. See first page.

JCC

It's not really that difficult to use one then the other is it? That's one of the easier things to do in the mod :DL. The video is great at explaining entering target course, here it is with a link for those who are cut and paste challenged:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=2744

Thanks for putting all that together JCC. :yeah::ping:.

sharbit
 

they may have said you whacko, but no one ever said you were stupid. :D
Good idea. When Channing completes the tutorial, maybe he will include a download for a practice mission with all kinds of targets. Hint, Hint. Meanwhile I will set one up.

Whoa Baby!
 

No wonder I did not know what I was doing. I was doing it wrong. I read the new portion of the tutorial. This far more complex that I thought. Good job Mr. Channing!!:up::salute::woot:

Very nice stuff. I've downloaded the whole mess of pictures so I can flip through them.

I am trying to upload the practice mission I used along with part 2 in Powerpoint format.

If this bulletin board lets me!



AHA! Success.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=2745

Good hunting.

JCC

Here's a link to a set of training missions for the radar and one for the TDC. The TDC training mission is the same target as depicted in the TDC tutorial for those that want to follow along:

Link:

Radar and TDC training missions v1.01

I'm sure someone mentioned something along those lines before :).

I updated the missions so that they now work from Sub School directly, rather than having to mess around with moving it about. I take it that's the mission I sent you? If so, it's included in the training mission pack link I just posted and will work from sub school (I had the wrong sub selected in the missions).

Pretty much the same, I just moved the Tanker further out so I would have more time to screw things up!

:D

Now that I think of it I may have changed the Sub's position too. Anyhoo.. the more practice missions the better!

JCC

New order for the crew of the Barbarinna
 

Cancel all my appointments for the next two weeks. We have some work to do. Get the crew back from I&I. Most of them are at the Royal Hawaiian or at Daisy's House of Women. We set sail in two hours hours. Tell the men that there is a revolutionary new piece of sonar equipment on board, and that we aren't coming back until be learn how to use it. The manual was hand delivered by the Admiral's personal courier.

Tell the medic that since we have been in port for a month, load up on the penicillan.

:yeah:

JCC

Nisgeis and John Channing
 

Fantastic piece of scholarly :know: work. Mind blowing actually!

Why the step of turning off the radar?

There is a bug in the game whereby if you leave the radar station it reverts from "Focus" to "Sweep" mode. If you rurn the radar off before you leave when you come back and turn it back on you will be in the same position as when you left. Cuts down on having to re-acquire the contact and saves you time when you are doing your plot.

Drove me nuts until Nisgeis pointed this out to me.

JCC

All the credit belongs to Nisgeis. I just followed along in his wake. Without his coaching and feedback I would have got the whole thing wrong from go!

JCC

hey,
 

JC-you figured out before I did!

FYI. I posted a link to yours and Nisgeis' threads in the main forum. I am on practice mission no. 1.

(Tankers? Oh Tankers? Come out and playee. COME OUT AND PLAYEE! [courtesy of and adapted from the great climatic finale of the cult, gang war classic, The Warriors])

Ok, so really just a convenience thing, not something that would confuse data.

I'm playing a patrol right now. I don't have a target, because I had to dive for an airplane. I'm just having fun fiddling with the dials, setting up things, and watching them spin. Wheeeeeeeee!

Ha! Ha!
 

Johnson's Corollary to Murphy's law.

The odds of the buttered side of the bread landing face down on the carpet increase in direct proportion to the cost of the rug.

Training Mission No. 1 (giggle, giggle) - Set the course on the 3D TDC... done! Send it to the TDC...Done! Set the speed ... done! Turn on the sonar PPI scope and find the target... done! Go the A scope and find the target...done! Almost there (giggle, giggle). Take range and bearing readings from the devices near the A scope...done. Go the periscope view, raise periscope and swivil it to the bearing reading...What the hell. LMAO.:haha: Its raining cats and dogs. Nisgeis must be up to his old tricks again. :har:

Hi John, what an awesome job you did with this tutorial, and many thanks for the 07/31 update, so : :yeah:

'Will spend my two weeks holidays studying and trying it in details, that will prevent Nisgeis (:up:) to personally show me the best way to avoid (my) common 600 yards and more errors in (my) firing solutions with radar...

@Nisgeis, et si vous êtes francophone ;) : merci beaucoup pour l'aide que vous m'avez si gentiment proposée, j'aprecie beaucoup la qualité de votre SAV (:salute:).

Best regards,

Thanks for the updated tutorial and video JC. :up: