Strange air activity June'43

[Flippo84]

First I have to say hello to everybody. I'am new to this forum. I've read it for a while now, but this is my first post. I hope you'll excuse my - ähm moderate - english

The facts:

Last night I startet a patrol from La Rochelle in early June 1943. I just equipped the VIIC/4 tower with two heavy 4x 20mm and one 32mm flak to gain a bit safty from air attacks.

I left La Rochelle with a small convoy of small tankers and a few german escort ships. I felt a bit frightened because it would be a good reason for an allied air attack and i sailed parallel to it. But nothing happend. So I went out the costal area into the Biskaya. During the biskaya cruise, the only thing that bombed me were radio messages from other u-boats wich sufferd heavy damagte to they're subs ore even were sunk by allied planes. I was ordered to turn off my Metox by the BDU in between, because the allied air force is able to bear my postition via its radiation. As you know, I wasn't able to turn off Metox. As I reached the north atlantic to advance in direction of my patrol area, which I chose in the greenland air gap, no aircraft was spotted or picked me up on radar. I started to feel comfortable but a bit disappointed in addition.

When I reached my patrol area, several enemy task forces were reported in the area. Also heavy fog came up. I decided to turn on my radar at very low speed instead of diving away from the fog, which might have been like a signal fire to the allied task groups with it's planes from the support carriers. Again nothing happend.

Weather went clear again and I spotted two merchants, traveling without escorts. I decided to attack the large one. When my eel's hit and destroyed the ship, I dashed away on the surface, without being recognized by the other ship.

Now the horror began. First I receved Metox warning of enemy radar. Two Hurricane planes went after me. I crash dived and decided to stay down for two hours at silent running. While waiting for the planes to leave, multiple warships were picked up by my hydrophone. Then I made a mistake. I decided to surface and leave the area befor I am in the radar range of the AWS Group. Two aircrafts were spotted again. This time they damaged my pressure hull, after I manned the flak system and performed surface evasion maneuvers, down to 74%. I crash dived again. The noise of the electro engines was heared by one of the destroyer's from a distance I've never seen before. I wasn't able to dive deeper than 210m because of the damage from the aircrafts. I was just able to finish my testament, when I was completly surrunded by five destroyers, throwing hedgehogs on me, constantly pinging me via ASDIC and I was able to listen to the aircraft circling above my position. I survived a couple of hours. All but two destroyers and a periodicly appearing aircraft patrol had left. It was hard to find anything working on my sub. Damage control was a large red plain. Batteries and O² were low, bolts have all gone. I had no chance to escape from the ASDIC, if I would have been able, as soon as I would reach the surface aircraft would have picked me up again. So I blew ballast and surrendered in the end.

Anyone else recognised such a difference in difficulty? No aircraft, AWS vessel or anything else during my voyage in the north atlantic, even with radar turned on! But after sinking one ship, hell broke out.

I'am playing the late war part of the carrier for the first time in GWX 3.0. Can anybody give me a hint, if biscaya will remain a playground to pass on surface, or becomes a little bit harder?

Edit: GWX 3.0 gold (outstanding Mod)

Gute Jagd und fette Beute!