Hi guys,
Thanks for the responds. I was a merchant officer myself, so I know about the definition of a nautical mile, statue mile and stuff (and sure, the NM does not belong to the imperial system). If you use miles or kilometres, the problem of the earth being a sphere remains the same. It all depends of the charts you use.
I concider the map in SHIII a Mercator projection. You only get into trouble with that chart if you cross the ocean from east to west or vice-versa. Then a straight line from A to B is not the shortest way.
I was just wondering if there was a mod for it. Some of you are able to build mods, why hasn't anybody thought of a mod for converting miles into kilometres or the other way round? I cannot believe that in navigation on board a U-boat, the crew worked with knots as unit for speed and kilometres as unit of distance. That is asking for trouble and mistakes.
By the way, did you know that the Dutch and Germans (and Svcandinavians perhaps) also used a
Geographical Mile or
German mile, being 4 nautical miles? I know the used it in the age of square rigged sailing. Don't know if it was still in use in WOII. For those who are intrested, here is a link to a site to convert metric to imperial or nautical measurements:
http://www.squarerigged.nl/papa/dimen/conv.htm
But nevertheless, it's a great game. I am on my way home now, with my conningtower severely damaged. To late diving for a plane spotted. Damn planes!!
We'll meet again, dont know where, don't know when...
Papa Charlie