Silence isn't so important when they have active sonar. Silence is your friend on your approach. When you are escaping, the key is to get distance from your attacker. Do this with flank bursts when he does a DC run. Go fast for longer than it feels comfortable, then drop down to 3kts, and make sure your enemeies are ~180 to you. Then, when you feel like you've opened up a bit of distance (to make the active sonar a little less effective) and you're profile is slim, go silent. And pray. Repeat as necessary, and add a BOLD to the beginning if you can. If you just sit there at 1kts, you'll never get away from them as they can continually get you with active. The trick of going down to 260 is a bit of an exploit - it gets you under the active cone, but it relies on having a really low (perhaps artificiallys so) crush depth. I don't operate under 150, and I rarely even have to go that deep.
Kb
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