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Originally Posted by Rubini
PS: Somebody knows (in RL, WWII era, visual only) what could be a good distance to detect a Hurricane in the above conditions?
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I live right next to an airport (Maastricht-Aachen-Airport...the strip is approx. 1km away from my house lol), and on a clear mid-day, I can see small aircrafts for up to 4km away.
But under certain conditions (depends on wind-direction and air-humidity), I can hear them earlier!
I think the engine-sound would be heard even earlier out at sea, if weather and seas are calm...certainly a high-power Merlin-engine, with hardly any exhaust-damping.
A trained watch-crew would hear the low rumble from miles away, I think.
Is there a way, to put the watch on high-alert, when they "hear" an engine, and start scanning in a rough direction that they think they hear the sound coming from?