What ETR3(SS) is referring to is the control surface, such as an airplane elevator. The fact is that your dive planes in the game can get "stuck", as in a graphical anomaly from a data corruption, and they will not influence the behavior of the boat. So whether the dive planes are "up" or "down" pointing, or if they're even stowed away, or partially deployed, they do not influence the change in depth the way a real dive plane would in real water. What the "drag" for the dive planes does is influence a "simulated" dive plane, if you will. The same holds for a rudder or the propeller - or buoyancy even. It's all "fake"... lol
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