I think that "Report Contact" is a short-cut to the Captain's Log function of the same name, so it's basically a phone-home function for a surfaced boat.
I've encountered something different. As per cdrsubron7's suggestion, I downloaded, looked at, and installed "Webster's Better Air Patrols for v1.4 and v1.5", and at first blush, looks compatible. I've read through the file, and can see no reason for my crew's behavior, but two times now, I've gotten a "Ship spotted" from the look-outs, while running Ahead Standard on the surface, while in TC (1024?? 512??) on my way to the patrol zone, and these two times, the computer has NOT dropped out of TC, and I do NOT get a cursor on the map, with map updates enabled. Never had one, that I saw prior to installation. Can one of you more knowledgeable than me with mods, look at the "AirStrike.cfg" file in his Data/CFG folder, and see if I'm missing something? I see no reason for the behavior because of the Webster mod, but I've never had this behavior before, anywhere... There is also a "Jap_AirCover.mis" file in the Campaign folder, but it looks like all it does is spawn the flyboy units from about 21 different airfield locations thoughout the game.
Also, there aren't any US subs in the Museum, only "-----" in the listing. Same with the Japansese fleet. The Indian's Frigate Black-Swan Class and Netherland's Flower-Corvette both appear to have issues with their skins - if you haven't already found those - and if I click on the "Bomber" listing under Germany's Museum listing, which is the next after "Submarine", my computer crashes. I was trying to go backwards through the list, and that didn't work... I'm wondering if it's the subs, or the ships, or the destroyer with the bad skin, or just my computer, but the computer does act like there's either a memory leak, or something is over-writing program data outside the bounds of a memory allocation, if that makes sense... The CTD after trying to access the first submarine is easy to deal with. But the endless loop I ended up in with trying to access the "Bomber" segment was quite a bit tougher to get out of. I almost had to push the power button, but Task Manager finally got it. There was a TM "Report the proglem" dialog that was behind the Silent Hunter window, which made the dialog inaccessible. I still haven't been on the "big" beast downstairs to see how it does...
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