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Originally Posted by Buffalo_Pat
After a few hours of research I saw first hand the effectiveness of the Dick O'Kane method for accurately hitting your target. This is especially true if you are attacking a convoy from long-ish range to increase your chances of evading escorts. The PK seems flawed and and has much less margin of error. Convoys don't appear much more difficult as AoB and speed won't change between targets, only range, but Dick O'Kane method takes range out of the equation. The only time I can see using the PK is if you are really in a hurry (ie DD is bearing down on you and you send a fish his way to slow him down). Am I wrong in my thinking or am I missing something about effectively using.the PK?
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Hi,
you cam use the method you described because your are playing Iwith map contacts update, and you just obtain the course and the speed from the navigation map. Try to use Okane method wiith map update off, i doubt it works since you have no means of getting the speed accuratly, which is the data the method is base on. So you have to use the optics ship identifycation and make measurements of range and bearing with TDC the, and then KP is usefull. I use it. Maybe you can use D Okanes method with map contacts update, but it will not me easy to manouver to get in a 90 egree angle of the target cause you will not know his course with much accuracy untill he is close to you to measure with the optics. Maybe the error coul be such that attemting to shoot at about 1000 yadrs you will fin yourself in the midel of his path, and even that he is crossing you on tha stern an not at 90 degress, and the you have to rely on the TDC and the KP. If you learn how to use it properly is pretty good device, but most people do not know how to use it properly, either because is ifficult or because is pretty ba explain on any manual.