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Originally Posted by Zero Niner

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Something in Capt Vlad's post made me think of something. At the risk of sounding condescending, you did turn on the PK *after* locking the ship, right?

Let me explain - before you lock, the TDC info is set according to wherever your scope is pointing. Once you lock, the TDC has one final set of info taken from the ship you were looking at the moment you locked, which it continuously updates, and when you turn on the PK (which is really a predictor, really), the PK uses that info from the TDC to continue to update the firing solution even though your scope is now looking somewhere else.

Thanks Zero Niner for the well described method. Yes, I turn on PK after locking the target so it begs the question whether the previous locked ship remained in the TDC instead of the new locked target when I turned the PK on.