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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Reality check: They couldn't crash dive to persicope depth. A normal dive means flooding the ballast tanks to a neutral or slightly negative trim so the boat settles at a gentle rate. Crash diving means fully flooding the tanks and moving all the trim ballast to the forward trim tank. The boat dives faster but it takes time to pump the ballast back to neutral trim and rebalance the water between the fore and aft trim tanks. Two hundred feet is normal for a crash dive. Anything else is, to put it mildly, unrealistic.
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Originally Posted by sharkbit
Maybe with the Key Mapper mod. It allows you to assign whatever keys you want to various commands, including multiple commands to one key.
You could change your C key to make it command ahead flank and periscope depth. I'm with Steve though on the reality thing.
Doesn't a screen pop up asking for you orders when a ship/aircraft is spotted? You can select what you want to do and set it as a default. Dive to periscope depth is one of those IIRC. It is a slower dive though but you don't over exert yourself pressing keys.
I use Key Mapper in SH4 and a similar one in SH3.
For example I have surface, lower whole scope(both scopes) and ahead standard on the S key. No more forgetting to lower my scope when I surface, going into TC and realizing a day later, my periscope has been up the whole time. 
In SH3, I man my deck gun, fire at will, and aim at waterline with just CTRL+G.
I have a whole list of keyboard commands for both games. Saves time.
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If I dive at regular speed in ATO, the aircraft gets me. And I spend most of the time fixing the demage to my beloved U-Boat. Fixing the U-Boat in ATO takes a LONG TIME, and sometimes you sink regardless. Sailor Steve is telling me I am a dead man! The best solution is too start with a crash dive, and when the boat starts submerging to shift to periscope depth. I just want to do it with one stroke of the keyboard rather than two. If the chocie is between death (and 24 virgins in heaven?) and realism, I prefer to survive.