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Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth
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Originally Posted by goldorak
My apologies, it seems i didn't understand correctly what you were trying to explain. 
So the bearing rate indicator in the ddi is only as good as your tma ?
Silly me for thinking the bearing rate was indipendent from the tma solution.  |
Apology accepted  . Yes, the bearing rate is only as good as your TMA. I used to think it was the actual bearing rate also until I tried Ekelund ranging and got really weird results. I REALLY REALLY wish Sonalysts would give you the bearing rate of a tracker so you don't have to pull out a stop watch.
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However, if you enter a fake solution (for one leg) by placing the ruler as perpendicular as possible to the latest (meaningfull) bearings in TMAstation it should produce an average bearingrate in the nav station. Although I really want atleast one more decimal in that number to be really effective. It's too crude now. (Then again, I'm a sucker for precision which ultimately slows me down) Entering the solution does however place a history dot at the wrong place on the map which clutters and could confuse you later.
I must admit, I haven't thoroughly tested this in the game (only recently figured it out), nor do I have any real life experience in naval matters, but I think the geometry and math would work out.