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Originally Posted by uniquemind
When contacts do appear they are usually a fair distance away and if I use the time compression to reach them, buy the time I am there, they are gone. What is the best and quickest way to get to them?
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The best way to intercept a contact is to plot an intercept course. The way I do this is to use the ruler to draw a line from the contact in the direction it is travelling. I then place a waypoint on that line and note the time it will take my sub to get there at a given speed. From this I work out how far the contact would have travelled in that time using the compass tool and adjust speed/course accordingly so that we more or less will get to that point at the same time. If the contact is travelling slow this means an average speed of 6 knots, if its travelling at medium speed thats an average of 9 knots. I find this method suits me and in my experience has a high success rate. But don't forget that you will need to convert nautical miles to kilometres to work out how far the contact has travelled using the compass.
Nemo
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