Wow, you guys do a lot to make it work. Am I just lucking in how easy it is for me to use (and thus, am I jinxing myself by saying anything? *throws salt over shoulder, knocks on wood, rubs lucky rabbit foot*)?
When I load a new patrol, the first thing I do is jump to the map room, hit the NO, click on the outbound. Once he's plotted an outbound, I tell him to follow plotted and off the boat goes (I also hit the 2 key so as not to over run the escort ship. Forgot to do that once and I ended up damaging the sub bad by running into him). Then, I go to where it exits the canal, plot the rest of my trip, including the patrol plot by the NO. As I plot the return trip, I zoom the map as close as I can and put my last point ON the Keil inbound icon on the map, then click on the NO and tell him to plot me an inbound and he does. I usually have my whole trip planed out on the map before I ever turn west. Matter of fact, I'm usually not even out of the harbor area before I'm done. It has worked perfectly every time. No having to point 000, 090, 270, NE, nothing. I've come up on that marker in a few different directions all depending on how I plotted my course coming back in.
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