Certainly it would differ with PC's, but I have a rather intense machine. Two issues at hand. One, talking about the intial slowdown, before TC drops. Many times this will happen and you will still miss the contact. You may be near, but if your headed the wrong way, you'll miss it unless you go to sonar. I've always gone to sonar when this happens as I can find the convoy right away.
Regardless who is on sonar you can pick them up much further yourself.
I have the special sonarman on with BS on and I still pick them up 10nm before he will.
To clarify, I'm getting more contacts before any slowdown, by just listening myself. I had several planes fly over. I was headed NE. Course you get a slowdown with planes anyway. I dive and listen to sonar and behold faint contacts no one is picking up. I head that way on the surface. They were going the other way. I was able to catch them and do a end around. Had I not listened, I would've just keep going and missed it.
I'm sure the issue is a unknown target, that's long been known. I just never stayed on sonar without a slowdown. Now that I do, pick up a lot more targets.
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