Ok, if the weather is clear then theres no problem. It lacks elegance, but what you do is basically this:
1) Submerge and listen to the contact. Find it yourself by manning the hydrophones personaly.
2) Once the contact has been found, ask the sonarman to identify it. He will either:
.....a) Won't be able to pick the sound up himself
.....b) Tell you an estimated range (short, medium, long)
3) If range was detected as short, jump to step 6, otherwise, follow step 4.
4) Quicly surface the boat, race full spead ahead (no need for flank) in the exact direction of the sound contact (crude, I know, but anything with more elegance requires more info). The amount of distance to be traveled in this manner is determined as follows:
.....a) If your sonarman wasn't able to pick up on the sound, travel about 10km by default, around 14km if you know that the contact is heading away from you or about 8 if you know that the target is coming towards you.
.....b) If contact reported as long range travel 3km by default, 4km if the target is heading away from you and about 2km if the target is coming towards you.
.....c) If the contact was reported as middle range, travel about 1km
5) If no visual contact has been established yet, go back to step 1.
6) Short range means that the contact is less that a 1000 meters away, so you should now be able to see him through your scope. Proceed by best judgement.
That's about it for now... I'll work on a proper tutorial later.
If you can't see him through the scope on step 6 and the waeather is fine, then either your monitor's gamma setting, or brightness or contrast or any combination of those aren't apropiate for you. Fiddle with your monitor (either through software or the physical buttons on it) so that you get a brighter image.
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