[danoh]

The AI plane movements will almost certainly be changed in a patch - right now they seem to appear locked in on your position - which makes for lots of action but also probably too much danger. Also some threads report the radar will sometimes not report - not sure if this is a bug or not.

In any case, when I pick the planes up on radar I order a crash dive, then underwater I'll run at 100 feet and 1-3 knots, adjusting speed so that I can run underwater until about dusk. You can also run periscope depth, and after the planes disappear visually surface again.

If I have a visual on the planes, I order flank speed but to not dive until the plane has made it's attack. This is because diving slows your speed, whereas, if I stay on the surface I manuever at flank speed. I will also order hard port/starboard toward the planes. After their pass I then dive.

I also recommend saving the game every day or two, since given the current dead-on air patrols if you are cruising somewhere near Japanese airbases it seems to be only a matter of time before you'll loose the air attack lottery. Especially because I'm getting similar dead-on attacks in the middle of the night.