Hmm, strange that I didn't notice them before. In my defence, Bernard has been seen holding my binoculars, you see.
And not all pillars are identified by lights in that image . Only on the sides of the canal from what I can tell, and not the center ones. I must have thought those lights were stars or something on the horizon. Also I expected those lights to be colored red or something in real life. Anyway, I should look even more carefully next time.
Kapt. Lehman:
I understand there is a big no-no on emitting light during war-time. Which definately would include bridges ofcourse, them being major choke-points. However, I also think they could have devised solutions that would minimise i.e. bombers to notice these lights. Like emiting along really narrow and shallow angles. A blocked canal because some ship collided with something doesn't help the war effort any bit either I think. But I guess the whole solution for me is solved aswel when I tweak my videocards gamma settings a bit. As my crew is able to see ships from kilometers away but I can't. Not even at 400m away, with the moon well past first-quarter. I'm sure I should be able to see more light reflection in those lighting conditions.
bigboywooly:
As for the routeplotting through the canal, I was aware of it and actually did that every time I went through the canal. But I tried to explain in my first post that it doesn't allways work safely. I came to a full stop at the Kanal-In point (unless it is sensitive to a tenth of a knot or so) and course was aligned with the canal entrance as best as i could figure it. But still the navigator plotted a course that went outside the canal further up towards the end. (suggesting to me course was the problem, need to test that) I had to manually adjust the waypoints causing me to be unsure of where the exact opening in the bridges were. Going out of Kiel is easy as you are allready at a complete stop and propper heading at the docks. But inbound is risky business. It's a wonderfull feature anyway. I'm glad you guys could get that to work.
Now, if only my GWX wasn't corrupted yesterday.