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Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp
Yup, I believe it's like Armistead says. If you come to radar depth and within seconds a plane is on top of you, it's because the plane was within visual contact, which seems to prevail over radar contact. I've also noticed that during rough seas, it helps to come up a little more toward the surface, from radar depth I mean (like a foot or two). This helps to compensate for the seas swelling above your radar mast.
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That's why I always check the weather before diving. If the wind is high, then the waves will be too, so I don't dive as deep. But it still doesn't work right, like in the beginning of the patrol. And I dive well before visual contact can be made, so it shouldn't be that. Plus if it was, it would do it all the time. This problem only occurs, for me at least, well into a patrol.