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Originally Posted by TorpX
Ewall007,
I can't really tell what happened. You said you were on course 014 N, but from the screen shot it looks like you are going ~ 170 S.
In any case, I would not try to reverse course or go back full. It takes significant time to slow and them reverse, and anyway the boat can not go very fast in reverse. I would try to go full ahead and turn in the opposite direction of the circle. Either that or dive fast.
The circle run is due to the rudder jamming/sticking. Once this occurs, it will continue to run in a circle of constant diameter, unless it becomes unstuck. (i.e. there is no reason for one to make wider circles).
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The images were taken just after the second loop. When I recived the first sound contact I was headed N at 014 degrees, then I turned E to get into attack range. Then I turned S to line up on his track.
Reverse was my first reaction, because I caught the torpedo quite by accendent. I just happened to check the attack map after firing 2 torpedoes. After going back full I thought that by turning to port if the torpedo did increse its circle it would either go past me or just in front of me.
Of course I didn't know that it would maintain the same circle. It was all gut reaction on my part, however; I will remember what you told me, your method sounds a hell of alot better than mine
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I was trying to get the arrows in the image to match what my boat was doing at the time I took the screen shot.
Thanks for the great advise. I will remember to do that next time
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