Manual solution help please

GoldenRivet · 03-24-07, 09:43 PM

I have watched the "training video" on manual solutions provided by a member here on the forums. It was fantastic.

every aspect of my solution is practically flawless.

Im quite good at IDing ships... i have the range finder down near perfect, and I have AOB nailed down to a fricken science.

But speed...

I cant tell simply by the bow wake method if a ship is turning out 4 knots or 18.

The clock method doesnt work (yet) and i cant figure out how to get the sonar bone head how to estimate target speed.

with that being said you can have the best range and AOB calculation on the planet but it does absolutely NO good if you dont know the target speed. im often narrowly missing thousands on thousands of tons of merchant shipping and naval task forces out there because of this handicap. occasionally i miss the target by so much as a boat length!!

aside from charts which only work on a 90 degree AOB (which i am almost always between 75 and 110 degrees) does anyone know how to get the in game methods for determining target speed to work.

I have all but pulled along side and whipped out my japanese for dummies hand book and asked "how fast are you ol' boys drivin that big ol' thang?"

03-24-07, 09:43 PM	#1
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	Manual solution help please I have watched the "training video" on manual solutions provided by a member here on the forums. It was fantastic. every aspect of my solution is practically flawless. Im quite good at IDing ships... i have the range finder down near perfect, and I have AOB nailed down to a fricken science. But speed... I cant tell simply by the bow wake method if a ship is turning out 4 knots or 18. The clock method doesnt work (yet) and i cant figure out how to get the sonar bone head how to estimate target speed. with that being said you can have the best range and AOB calculation on the planet but it does absolutely NO good if you dont know the target speed. im often narrowly missing thousands on thousands of tons of merchant shipping and naval task forces out there because of this handicap. occasionally i miss the target by so much as a boat length!! aside from charts which only work on a 90 degree AOB (which i am almost always between 75 and 110 degrees) does anyone know how to get the in game methods for determining target speed to work. I have all but pulled along side and whipped out my japanese for dummies hand book and asked "how fast are you ol' boys drivin that big ol' thang?"