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Originally Posted by HW3
A patrol technique that works for me is to run submerged for 6 hours at slow speed (2-3kts), surface and charge batteries, which takes about 1 hour, run submerged for another 6 hours and repeat. By doing this I rarely run into a airplane or surface ship while surfaced, and my batteries are always over 50%.
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This will keep you out of trouble - you can also expand on that general theme for all sorts variables but I also run a 6 hour system very similiar I some times will chug on the surface dependant on weather, position etc