My way to surface...
 

Flyyyy, come on baby, flyyyyyyy! :rock:

http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/4...20272xm.th.jpg

You are still in ground effect (or water effect) perhaps. Once you break out you'll be soaring with the eagles!!

By the way, where did you get the camo scheme for your sub? I'd love to try that on my VIIB.

Cool picture! I bet any skippers in the area choked on their coffee when they saw this... :P

I also try to make my boat 'fly' out of the water sometimes, but I find it much harder in SH3 compared to SH2. In SH2 I would first go deep, order ahead flank, blow ballast, and manually set dive planes up. I did some spectular surface-breakers there! :rock:

How did you manage this in SH3, and what was your speed when you surfaced?

@waste gate http://sh3skins.realsimulation.com/ I´m not sure but I think it was ths NSS 7C Skin... what I can definitely tell, is that I downloaded this awesome skin fromt that site.

@Nopileo I guess it was a lucky circumstace - I only managed once to fly this way out of the water. I surfaced from 100m with flank ahead und blowed the ballast 2 times. I didn´t believe myself in the first seconds what I did there :D

This reminds me a real sub surfacing I saw.

We were approaching Gibraltar after 6 months in the Persian Gulf. We must have been a couple of miles off when by chance I looked out the bridge window. Literally a 100 feet away on our starboard beam, shooting out of the sea, bows flying through the air in a great wash of foam, came a US sub. It happened so fast that and was so unexpected that I just gaped at it. I think it was one of the American attack subs and if memory recalls it had a tiger stripe camouflage on its conning toweR. Although this maybe my memory playing tricks on me.

EIther way it was damned impressive and something I've never forgotten.

You should be on one when they do that.........awesome.

Not exactly on topic, but in the same alley:

When I was young (pre-school) I often got to travel with my father on his ship. He was a captain of a container ship.

One day I was with him on the bridge, probably standing on my stool with my entire head buried into the radar funnel as usual. I loved the radar - even when there was nothing to see (I was about 6, so this must have been in 1975-76). And I liked the smell of the rubber funnel as well... :rotfl: This was probably in the middle of the Atlantic somewhere, but I can't really remember now.

Anyway, suddenly he called me over and gave me his binoculars. There was a periscope sticking out of the water some distance in front of us. This was the first time I realised that periscopes don't look like they do in Donald Duck comics, which was quite disappointing. I had complete confidence in Disney!

He said that we would catch up with it soon, so I got excited as to what would happen. Would it turn away, disappear or surface? After a while my father must have realised that the scope was actually gaining distance from us, because he said that we would not catch up with it after all.

I remember very clearly that something in the way he said it made me look at him (I remember some of the bridge crew did as well), and the look on his face made me uneasy.

The periscope continued gaining distance until we couldn't see it anymore.

Only several years later he told me that he had been torpedoed by submarines twice during the war. So I guess this realisation of how fast the new submarines had become underwater was the reason he became uneasy, combined with the memories of his past encounters with subs.

so you saw a U-boat periscope?

:rotfl: Yeah, that was really the initial point of the story. Thanks for pointing that out. :P

lol, talk about the wrong end of the stick

no offense chuck :rotfl: :rotfl:

:rotfl:

WOW :o

Like in DAS BOOT !
I wanna fly too :(

Easter egg alert! :o

Seriously this sounds interesting. Looking forward to see what you catch! :ping:

Edit: Sorry, somehow this post ended up in the completely wrong thread! :o Hmmm... :hmm: It was supposed to go in the thread where Mike encounters the strange sounds. Have no idea how it ended up here...?

DOH! i forgot to add " :-j " onto the end of my post.

lolol its cool :ping: