Can't use Kiel Canal (easily)

KeybdFlyer · 11-11-09, 04:50 PM

I've done searches for "Kiel Canal Course", Kiel Canal Plotting", Kiel Canal Waypoints" and "Kiel Canal Inbound", but I can't find anything to cover this little glitch - though I may have given-up too early in scanning threads and missed it.

It's October 1939, Patrol 4 in a Type VIIB from Kiel (7th/13th Flotilla after the move from Konigsberg). Upon returning from the NE coast of England and having plotted waypoints to the Kiel Canal entrance point, I selected "Kiel Inbound" and was more than a bit surprised to see the many waypoints head off in a vaguely South Easterly direction across northern Germany! After deleting the waypoints one by one, I tried again - same result. Examining the plotted course for a few minutes, it seemed to be a mirror-image of what should have been plotted - flipped along a horizontal axis, so-to-speak. Not wishing to spend the time to plot my way through the canal manually, I tried to "teleport" back to base, but that only offered me the choice to dock at the port at the southern end of the canal (ends in buttel, lol, I forget the full name), and so I had to set-off on a trip around Denmark in order to get back to base.

Has this strange glitch been noted before anywhere? Has a fix been found if it has? Does anyone know what could have happened and how I can prevent it happening on the next patrol? Thanks in advance.

11-11-09, 04:50 PM	#1
KeybdFlyer 中国水兵 Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 272 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Can't use Kiel Canal (easily) I've done searches for "Kiel Canal Course", Kiel Canal Plotting", Kiel Canal Waypoints" and "Kiel Canal Inbound", but I can't find anything to cover this little glitch - though I may have given-up too early in scanning threads and missed it. It's October 1939, Patrol 4 in a Type VIIB from Kiel (7th/13th Flotilla after the move from Konigsberg). Upon returning from the NE coast of England and having plotted waypoints to the Kiel Canal entrance point, I selected "Kiel Inbound" and was more than a bit surprised to see the many waypoints head off in a vaguely South Easterly direction across northern Germany! After deleting the waypoints one by one, I tried again - same result. Examining the plotted course for a few minutes, it seemed to be a mirror-image of what should have been plotted - flipped along a horizontal axis, so-to-speak. Not wishing to spend the time to plot my way through the canal manually, I tried to "teleport" back to base, but that only offered me the choice to dock at the port at the southern end of the canal (ends in buttel, lol, I forget the full name), and so I had to set-off on a trip around Denmark in order to get back to base. Has this strange glitch been noted before anywhere? Has a fix been found if it has? Does anyone know what could have happened and how I can prevent it happening on the next patrol? Thanks in advance.