SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post

Sea Hawk · 04-09-09, 03:42 PM

I’ve been looking at some threads on navigation.
I can see that in the real world the sub would have navigated large distances using celestial navigation. My question is what happened in the final stages when every time he popped the periscope he risked being seen?

In the game the U-boat and the targets move about on the chart similar to a sat-nav system. I’ve managed to turn off the targets on the chart so that I have to plot them. But the U-boat still moves about like a sat-nav image.
If your U-boat is stationary then the important information is to plot the targets position relative to your self. But usually both the target and the U-boat are moving.
How did the U-boat commander know where he was on the chart? did he keep popping up the observation scope to use a sextant and so risk giving himself away during the attack run, or did he rely on dead reckoning?

04-09-09, 03:42 PM	#1
Sea Hawk Loader Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Warrington Posts: 88 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	navigating during the attack run I’ve been looking at some threads on navigation. I can see that in the real world the sub would have navigated large distances using celestial navigation. My question is what happened in the final stages when every time he popped the periscope he risked being seen? In the game the U-boat and the targets move about on the chart similar to a sat-nav system. I’ve managed to turn off the targets on the chart so that I have to plot them. But the U-boat still moves about like a sat-nav image. If your U-boat is stationary then the important information is to plot the targets position relative to your self. But usually both the target and the U-boat are moving. How did the U-boat commander know where he was on the chart? did he keep popping up the observation scope to use a sextant and so risk giving himself away during the attack run, or did he rely on dead reckoning?