And there you have it. Anything more is above his pay grade. And sometimes you'll push the "report nearest contact" button and he'll cop an attitude, refusing to say anything. This guy just isn't the brightest candle on the cake. But he's the best we have so treat him nice.
The workaround is to get a sonar bearing from the nav map, train the sonar on that bearing and manually ping. Works good but of course it's slower.