Watch Officer sighting

kkentopanga · 12-14-06, 04:12 PM

When your watch officer reports a contact 30 degrees off your bow is he refering the contacts bearing is true to 000 or is 30 degrees relative to your direction of travel?

Corsair · 12-14-06, 04:17 PM

All contact reports (sight from WO or sound from hydrophone operator) are always given as a relative bearing. 0 in front of you, 90 to the right, 180 behind and 270 to your left. Makes things a lot easier as you don't have to do the math of substracting your heading from a true bearing...

AVGWarhawk · 12-14-06, 04:41 PM

The degree stated is always off your bow.

Rose · 12-14-06, 06:08 PM

Yep, it's the bearing off of the bow.

12-14-06, 04:12 PM	#1
kkentopanga Helmsman Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Roseville CA Posts: 102 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Watch Officer sighting When your watch officer reports a contact 30 degrees off your bow is he refering the contacts bearing is true to 000 or is 30 degrees relative to your direction of travel?

12-14-06, 04:17 PM	#2
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	All contact reports (sight from WO or sound from hydrophone operator) are always given as a relative bearing. 0 in front of you, 90 to the right, 180 behind and 270 to your left. Makes things a lot easier as you don't have to do the math of substracting your heading from a true bearing... __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

12-14-06, 04:41 PM	#3
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	The degree stated is always off your bow. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

12-14-06, 06:08 PM	#4
Rose Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2006 Location: New York City Posts: 966 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yep, it's the bearing off of the bow.