Watch officer scanning cycle

[LGN1]

Hi all,

I have a question concerning the watch officer's scanning cycle. If I ask the watch officer for the distance to the nearest visual contact, he puts down his binoculars and tells me the distance. Then he takes them up again, but does not continue to rotate again (the figure). Now I am wondering whether only the figure does not rotate anymore or whether also the sensor is frozen to a direction. The latter would be really bad.

I am wondering about it because some time ago Kpt. Lehmann wrote in a thread ( http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=135244 )

'In addition to loss of bridge crew interaction, the free cam mod caused the watch officer to periodically freeze his scanning cycle... and as he represents one of the more powerful visual sensors aboard, exclusion of the mod was logical.'

So, the question is whether the scanning cycle is also frozen when I ask for the nearest contact.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

Cheers, LGN1