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Originally Posted by RickC Sniper
With a Tambor or newer, travelling at 9-10 kts I need 1\4 tank to get from the China Sea to Midway. Heavy seas lowers your mileage, as does battery recharging.
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In a Porpoise, running at 10 knots, I burn about 2% per day (1% of fuel takes me about 114 nm). That's with batteries charged. Running at 1/3, for every 10% my batteries are depleted, it takes approximately 16 minutes to recharge.
I always check "maximum range at current speed" on the half-minute and never when charging batteries. I find it gives me the greatest accuracy. (My navigator correctly guessed that it would take 26% of our fuel to reach the East China Sea.)
I've read where some players have found the trip back to Midway a lot harder (on fuel). I can only surmise that they were running with damaged engines and/or, as posted above, batteries were never automatically taken off line (they are prone to do that if, for one reason or another, they cannot be charged to a full 100% ... making it necessary to take them off line manually).