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Old 10-18-06, 08:42 PM   #18
Albrecht Von Hesse
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
I find using the stop watch gives outlandish speeds. I never use it.
The biggest drawback with the stopwatch-speed calculation is that in order for speed to be accurately calculated your U-boat must be at dead stop and your target at 90 degrees AoB. As the AoB becomes more acute, then speed will seem slower; at 0 or 180 it'll appear 0 knots. And since the speed calculation is essentially using trigonometry to calculate speed, if your U-boat is moving at all that buggers up the calculation too.
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