[JoeL_221]

You have to learn how to use the dipping sonar on the MH60. It does a much better job than the sonobouys. Use the drawing tools on the map to draw a 7.5 mile range circle around the MH60. Drop to 150 ft and hover then deploy the dipping sonar. You should be able to get a contact on any nuc boat inside that range. Don't go below 150ft because, if the sub turns into an instant ready to fire SAM site, the AI pilot will try to increase speed to get away. When he lowers the nose to pick up speed, he'll hit the water if you're at 50 ft. Kilo's are hard to hear beyond 2-3 miles. You will most likely need to use the active to find the Kilo's. After you have scanned an area, retract the sonar, draw an area circle of 7.5 miles on the map where you searched and when the sonar is up, move to a point where the range circle around the helo just overlaps the area circle and search again. BE VERY CAREFUL OF THE DIPPING SONAR, don't fly with it deployed or you will use it. Go slow and keep doing the stop, search, retract and draw until you find a sub. Mark it and upload it to the link. Always stay 4-5 miles away from a sub contact or you will be getting an infared present from the sub/SAM site. The secret of the helo is to go slow and try to stay 20-40 miles from the ships you are protecting. Best is to work with a P-3, you find, he kills. After you mark a sub, he can swoop in at high speed and drop torps on the target. If the sub/SAM site pops to the surface, you stuff a Penguin down his hatch. Also, once you have found a sub, use your sonobouys to keep contact. The high speed of the P-3 should keep him from being a SAM target. Once the P-3 has dropped, you can drop a torp from stand-off distance once you've determined where the sub is heading. If it's just you against the sub, the search method will still work, just stay out of SAM range and practice dropping torps from stand-off distances. When using the dipping sonar, remember to drop a BT bouy to find the layer level and search above and below the layer. The active sonar does a good job and can give returns out to 10 miles. Try to find the subs from outside SAM range and then work into position to attack using passive sonar and passive bouys. Don't fly over an enemy sub in MP or you will be dead.