What is real navigation?
 

Hello i dont really understand what real navigation is. Can somebody explain it? Is it a kind off autopilot? What can i do with it?

:) Real navigation is a mod for NewUIs, wich makes you navigate on a map without any information...
-You don't see your sub
-you don't see any boats
-you don't see any contact line
-you can't draw automatic stock course line
-you have to draw your bearing and use compass tool
-you can ask navigator for your current position if good weather
-you can have your current position drawn on map if good weather
-you can have current position automaticaly every 2 hours (Trevally script)
-you have to calculate where you could be, and beware of coast!
-you have to determine if boat is ennemy or friendly
-you have to determine ennemy trajectory using hydro and clock
-you have to determine ennemy speed via hydrophone and clock
-you have to follow ennemy at distance when in sight
-you have to intercept ennemy best as possible! :haha:

Really awesome experience!...but need some time to play it...

Oh thats hardcore. I think i play the game first without it^^

yup it is a bit hard to play with real navigation for beginers but when u have some xp u can try it.... with real navigation i have more fun to play als without real navigation.

Yeah it seems like fun to calculate the own position etc. But first i better play without .

You have even more hardcore!...only use the new sextant to find your position without asking navigator!...bit too much for me right now :haha:

Oh thats to hardcore ^^

Yes it's harcore but that turns a game into a simulation.

I serverd between 1989 and 1993 as Navigator in the Federal German Navy most of those 4 years as Navigationsmaat on the Minenkampfboot Klasse 343 "Passau".

From my experience from that time I'm really waiting to have a working sextant with the upcomming TDW UI 7.5. This will bring so much more realism to the sim.

:subsim:

Ok yeah the sextant feature is really realistic. But the navigation officer have to earn his money too ^^

You don't have to calculate your position at all if you don't want to . Just ask the navigator for a dead reckoning or a celestial fix . Its way more fun than the old waypoints system .

Until your navigator gets wounded.:lost:

Real nav is anyway really cool.
And find boats can sometimes be quite easy:
http://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/...588Realnav.jpg
Right straight on this medium cargo! lol

Another reason to play realistically aka very cautiously .

I wholeheartedly agree. It was a warning to the uninitiated. Also a reason to learn how to use the sextant if you do something reckless and have to save your career by navigating on your own.