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Old 12-20-08, 09:54 PM   #5
joegrundman
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Originally Posted by Frame57
Bow to bow. The WW2 skippers and officers and quartermasters had to be so good at this, they could just look and determine AOB with great accuracy. using the bearing marker and line of sight to the targets bow brings it in resonably accurate for me. Of course i am always second guessing myself...
but judging by eye is not as difficult as you make it sound, and really is a skill that is attainable with SH3/4 and well worth it when you do. i did a brief tutorial to it somewhere, which took a specific example to show you the sorts of things you look for

Of course it's greatly helped when you fully understand the mathematical relationships involved

ah here it is

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...t=judging+aob*
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