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Originally Posted by sharkbit
There are many accounts of actual U-boats being caught by suprise on the surface by aircraft, even in good weather. The watch crew may have been daydreaming, the aircraft came out of the sun, or hid in clouds. That doesn't seem to be simulated very well in game.
My experience has always been that my watch crew spots the aircraft with plenty of time to dive. I'm late in 1943 in a career and maybe I haven't had the chance to really be suprised by radar equipped aircraft. That random possibility of being suprised intrigues me. Whether it costs me a sub or not, so be it. I would like to experience the possibility of that kind of suprise.
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This has looooong been a gripe of mine. The way planes are modeled is just not conducive to a realistic U-boat experience. You're right - they would approach from high up from the sunward side of the boat so that the lookout wouldn't see them. I remember reading in Edward Beach's books (Dust on the Sea, if I remember right) that radar equipped planes would pulse their radar to prevent radar detector equipped boats from realizing just how close they were.
I'd love for planes to be an almost instant death encounter, but as they are now, they're a minor annoyance.