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Originally Posted by magic452
The training mission is all but useless for learning manual targeting, you really need to go out and find a ship that is farther away so you have the time do do all this.
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Sooo true!!!
In my opinion most important thing to learn is how to get target's course... so download/follow these tutorials
and these also
To measure speed: first make sure you are at dead stop, identify ship, get your stop watch and measure time needed for target to pass vertical line of your aiming cross from bow to stern, then multiply target's length with 1.943 and divide that number with number of seconds... for example:
Ship length = 120 m
Time = 25 seconds
120x1.943=233.16
233.16/25=9.3264
Target's speed is 9.3 knots.
If measuring is distance based... i.e. based on the distance or "leg" the target makes between two bearings/ranges (i.e. marks on the map, given by WO, or radar, use protractor, circle and pen tool ) calculate like this:
If time between measuring was, let's say 10 minutes, and the target in that time makes let's say 1450 m
1450/30.5=47.540984
47.540984/10=4.7540984
Round it up to 5, so target's speed is 5 knots... if you wonder what is 30.5 that is the distance (30.5 meters) an object/target makes in one minute at speed of 1 knot...
Now practice... lot of practice...