Use of masts
 

When could I realistically raise my masts on a sub without detection...at what distance? I realise AI doesn't detect masts :down: but, I consider this an exploit (so I'm not going to use it). So at what approximate distance from an enemy surface platform should I not raise my mast?

Tough to say.

Rather than approach the issue in that way, I would focus on using the masts as a skipper would in real life.

That is, only raise the masts for short periods of time to accomplish something specific.

I would give that advice for another reason as well - if you do otherwise, you easily forget you had a mast up, and break it.

Watch ESM. The higher the signal strength, the greater the risk.

Speed, sae state, and distance from other contacts matter too, but I can't really get into anything specific. The advice above is good for the game (even though we tend to always have the scope up)...lower any masts you're not using.

Thanks LuftWolf...excellent....never thought of that. I'll be doing that then from now on and thanx to everyone else... :up:

Also time the scope has been up and type - ie search more detectable than attack