[ESPY]

Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster. I'm a veterain of SHI-III but I'm just getting in to SHIV now that 1.3 has come out.

I'm running TM 1.4 along with a couple other mods and just completed my first patrol. It was pretty successful and I thought I might need a bit more of a challenge so I turned off the map updates.

I know the SJ radar doesn't have a station and is always on. And I found out pretty quickly during my first patrol without the map updates that one thing I definitely like about the map updates is that you can easily distinguish aircraft/SJ contacts from ships/SD contacts just by watching them on the map. The first time I got a contact called out I went to the radar view to try to find it. As I was trying to figure out if I was using it correctly I got a visual contact and before I knew it I was being bombed by planes.

So, aside from turning off the SD radar so that the only contact info I get is air contacts, is there any way to know when a contact is called out whether it's an air contact or surface contact?

All I know to do right now is go to the SD view and if I don't see anything then I know that it must have been an air contact. But it would be nice to know that immediately so I could just dive right away if it's an air contact, before it gets too close for me to dive in time.

Thx for the help,

SP