Silent Running dilemna

Schöneboom · 07-12-10, 09:56 PM

After switching to Silent Running, set your speed manually to 1 kt., that's the ticket. One way to confirm your RPM is to click into your engineer's POV to read the tach -- if it's 50 RPM, you're good. (Better still, get under the thermal layer if there is one.)

Gute Jagd!

07-12-10, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Schöneboom

After switching to Silent Running, set your speed manually to 1 kt., that's the ticket. One way to confirm your RPM is to click into your engineer's POV to read the tach -- if it's 50 RPM, you're good. (Better still, get under the thermal layer if there is one.)

Gute Jagd!

What we were discussing was running silent, without setting "Silent Running" on the UI.

And yes, the engineer's tach is the only way to go.

Jimbuna · 07-13-10, 11:33 AM

You could test your theory another way:

Enable the noise meter and approach a convoy at slow speed, as soon as the meter startschanging colour toward orange then red in colour, switch to silent running, your meter should go back to green coloured.

Whilst the noise meter is not an accurate science to informing you if the escorts have detected you or not, it is accurate in letting you know if you are emitting more noise when not in silent running mode.

07-13-10, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

You could test your theory another way:

Enable the noise meter and approach a convoy at slow speed, as soon as the meter startschanging colour toward orange then red in colour, switch to silent running, your meter should go back to green coloured.

Whilst the noise meter is not an accurate science to informing you if the escorts have detected you or not, it is accurate in letting you know if you are emitting more noise when not in silent running mode.

Exellent idé, but I just can't allow myself to have that thing.

I shall continue onward, never setting Silent Running, and perhaps suffer the consiquences.
I'm confident.

epos · 07-30-10, 02:45 AM

First, thank you all for a lot of info. Great place.

Somewhere in this thred i read "One way to confirm your RPM is to click into your engineer's POV to read the tach -- if it's 50 RPM, you're good." I cant find the RPM reading, is it a mod, or am i just going old and blind

TabbyHunter · 07-30-10, 03:01 AM

Porbably going old and blind....Probably...

It should be on the bottom left corner. One of the 5 guys should be the enginer.

if not its probably only in GWX or something.

epos · 07-30-10, 03:10 AM

I can see the engineer - not THAT old

But i can not find the reading of the RPM. I use GWX 3.0.

07-12-10, 09:56 PM	#1
Schöneboom Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 651 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	After switching to Silent Running, set your speed manually to 1 kt., that's the ticket. One way to confirm your RPM is to click into your engineer's POV to read the tach -- if it's 50 RPM, you're good. (Better still, get under the thermal layer if there is one.) Gute Jagd! __________________ Dietrich Schöneboom, U-431 "Es wird klappen, Herr Kaleun. Ganz sicher."

07-13-10, 11:33 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	You could test your theory another way: Enable the noise meter and approach a convoy at slow speed, as soon as the meter startschanging colour toward orange then red in colour, switch to silent running, your meter should go back to green coloured. Whilst the noise meter is not an accurate science to informing you if the escorts have detected you or not, it is accurate in letting you know if you are emitting more noise when not in silent running mode. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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07-30-10, 02:45 AM	#5
epos Nub Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	First, thank you all for a lot of info. Great place. Somewhere in this thred i read "One way to confirm your RPM is to click into your engineer's POV to read the tach -- if it's 50 RPM, you're good." I cant find the RPM reading, is it a mod, or am i just going old and blind

07-30-10, 03:01 AM	#6
TabbyHunter Ensign Join Date: May 2010 Location: Pandora. Not the blue cat people Pandora... Posts: 227 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Porbably going old and blind....Probably... It should be on the bottom left corner. One of the 5 guys should be the enginer. if not its probably only in GWX or something.

07-30-10, 03:10 AM	#7
epos Nub Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	I can see the engineer - not THAT old But i can not find the reading of the RPM. I use GWX 3.0.