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Originally Posted by Powerthighs
Once you get the first radar contact on an airplane how do you tell if it moves into a 5 mile radius around your sub? Do you wait for a visual contact report?
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Going to edit the whole blasted thing as I made some screenies that show the process better. First you draw a 5 nm circle around your boat. Then from the point of the airplane, you can draw 2 lines tangent to the circle. This will make a cone shape with the sides of the cone the limits within which you will have to dive.
So there you go: airplane detected and lines drawn. Sorry it's so close to the sub, but it really shows up better that way. Have you noticed that once and awhile radar will detect a plane for the first time this close to your sub? Plenty of time! Let's watch the Nip and see where he's going...
Well, question answered. He's inside the cone and that means he's going to penetrate our 5 nm radius. There's plenty of time. Dive when convenient. Finish your coffee first.
That's it! This allows you to never see or be seen by a plane, while allowing you to stay on the surface almost all the time. Your tonnage goes up, you stay undamaged and you don't have to slink around all day under the surface like a coward. You can't sink too many ships if you're hiding in a rat hole. And you have time to finish your coffee!