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Originally Posted by Nedlam
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Originally Posted by wetwarev7
It's just math, and it's not overly complicated, so I have a hard time believing someone who's gone thru officer training would muff it up. I could see an experienced officer taking less time than a noobie officer though.
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Absolutely, it's just math. Math done with figures taken by human being (in this case an artificial human being).
A more experience sailor will get better figures to do the math that ALL sailors coming out of officer training school should know or at least have some experience in. What's the ol programers battle cry: GARBAGE IN - GARBAGE OUT
The more experienced / qualified the officer, the less garbage enter the calculations. |
True, but I'm still not convinced. I think the only problem they truly faced(And I am a total landlubber, so take it for what it's worth) is in correctly identifying the target. Using the periscope to take range estimates is fairly simple, and using that book with all the pretty pictures of ships in it, you knew the height(range) and length at (90 degrees), which would have been helpfull in determining AOB(not to mention figureing AOB from the targets course compared with yours)
Now, I could see faulty data being a factor with targets that were far away, like over 3-4Km, but not close up, as in a attack run scenario.