Question and Observation about my Funker

One question, and one observation.

First, I've read of other people here somehow calling in Luftwaffe against merchants. Not that I put much faith in Herr Göhring's boys finishing the job I couldn't, but when I run out of torpedoes and am on the way home and spot a lone merchant, boy would I love to see someone (even if it's not me) dig their hooks in. I've tried to send contact reports, but that only seems to work for convoys. And not always then. I've tried to send contact reports for convoys I'm shadowing where I can see half a dozen merchants and a couple escorts but it still won't send for some reason. But anyway, how do you call in air power against a lone merchant?

And now the observation. Has anyone noticed when submerged the radioman has an option called "weather report"? Of course, it's grayed out (since you're submerged) and once you surface it switches to "patrol report". Is this a feature that got left behind, or some typo or something that never got cleaned up? Anyone know?

You "call in an airstrike" by sending a contact report, while your TDC is locked on the target in question. At least that's the way I did it; it helps to be close to friendly shores, too. The on e time I've actually seen it work, I was rounding the cape of Denmark, and did it as described above. Not sure if you have to do it that way, but that's the way I've seen it work.

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The important thing is that the intended victim must be within range of the nearest Luftwaffe base for them to attack it.