Thanks Pikes, those are useful additions, although your final point refers to what is known as the aspect ratio. Working with hitman and OLC we constructed the U-jagd tools mod, which OLC incorporated with his GUI. These tools include a tool specifically for calculating the aspect ratio in a few seconds.
It is in the aob range 20-50 that the apsect ratio is particularly strong, because the apaprent length changes so much over this range, for the extremes, using the visual method is better.
@Elmer
well you have to look for clues in every ship, because what you are really trying to do is use small visual clues to construct a 3d orientation in your mind's eye. Once you have teh knack it only gets easier!
As for the evasion pattern, i believe they run on a fixed wavelength, not frequency.
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