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I find using the stop watch gives outlandish speeds. I never use it.
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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. |
I dunno about you guys but I ONLY use the Stopwatch with the whole Wazoo tracking method. Unless you guys are referring to the notepad speed thing that doesn't work very well. |
The notepad speed does not work well in my view. If you are at a dead stop and make the calculations it might work ok. Other than that, most merchants a making 7 kts and I dial that in manually on the TDC...it is more shoot from the hip
than anything but if I'm in 1500m or less, any small varience in speed makes no difference. Sometimes you get that fast convoy making 10-14 kts so I just make my best guess and I do that by watching how fast the scope or uzo is moving. Am I in the 100k club as a result....nope but then again I was not attempting to get into the club.
So I average 3-4 in my VII sometimes 5-6 if I'm getting the one torp kills.