[BigBadVuk]

Originally Posted by SeaQueen

It's already in there. First off, you only have so many channels you can monitor at once. Secondly, you can't get data from sonobuoys that are out of range. Those are the real life limitations. Anything else is artificial. Now... if you want to be a REAL geek, you can get into *this* model has *this* processor and can model *this* many channels at once from *this altitude* P-3s have been around so long and have had so many different pieces of software and hardware installed, that at this point, there's lots of different flavors of P-3.

How wide an area do you think an aircraft can search anyhow? If you're playing a realistically scaled mission, you won't be able to monitor every buoy continuously. You'll either have too many buoys out, or you'll be too far away. A smart pilot will figure out some kind of pattern to fly so that he can stay in contact with the most buoys possible, while still replenishing buoys that go dead on him.

Also, bare in mind that Tom Clancy is not the best metric to measure realism against. His books are very suspenseful and fun to read, but... he writes fiction. TOM CLANCY IS AN INSURANCE SALESMAN BY TRADE. He is not a naval professional. He just likes to hang out around them and have fantasies.

Thx..so that is already limited....To be clear: AI controlled P3 has also same tracking capabilities as human controlled? Right? i mean he cant drop 20 of them and monitor all at once?

About Tom..YEs i know he is not 100% realistic but as you say: HE IS FUN and playing DW after reading is much more fun..same goes for SHIII after watching Das Boot