[Sailor Steve]

But the captain of a submarine doesn't control those things. Ever. He gives the orders and the planesmen and helmsman carry them out. A ship is not run by one man at the controls, but by a whole team, with the captain at the head.

When I played SH2 Projekt Messerwetzer made it possible for sub players in multiplay to fly the sub like an airplane, racing to the surface to take a shot and then being back at 200 metres before the destroyers even had time to react. I pointed out then that, even if you could sit at the dive plane wheel, there were two of them - one for the bow planes and one for the stern, and the Chief gave individual orders for their separate use to govern how steeply and quickly the boat got where it was going.

I agree about the dive sequence. In fact I've complained about that ever since SH2. The first thing they do is close all hatches and vents, shut down the engines and go to batteries.

But fly the sub like an aircraft? Totally unreal.