Kiel Canal Blues...

[Flaxpants]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

In GWX you click on the navigator at bottom left of screen and a number of options appear, eg Kiel In and Kiel Out.

Based on my experiences using those two buttons, I think they should be renamed to 'Smash boat into rocks' and 'Let your grandmother drive'.

I always do it manually.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Flaxpants

Based on my experiences using those two buttons, I think they should be renamed to 'Smash boat into rocks' and 'Let your grandmother drive'.

I always do it manually.

That is most likely because you need to immediately set the order 'follow waypoints' befeore the boat moves too far off course.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

That is most likely because you need to immediately set the order 'follow waypoints' befeore the boat moves too far off course.

That's what I always do, and I've never had any issues with crashing in the canal.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Hans Uberman

That's what I always do, and I've never had any issues with crashing in the canal.

Rgr that...the trick is to give the order before the boat has moved more than a few metres.

[Fish In The Water]

Just reading through the thread got me thinking about a question that was brought up a while back regarding pre-plotted courses from bases such as Willy.

Obviously plotting the waypoints in ME is simple enough, but how would one go about associating the course with the player unit in the SCR layer?

[Jimbuna]

You set the plot as a base then adjust to make it identical as a flotilla plot.

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

You set the plot as a base then adjust to make it identical as a flotilla plot.

Thanks for the reply, but I'm not sure I'm reading you on this. Are you saying multiple versions of the same plot, and if so, how do you assign as flotilla?

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

You set the plot as a base then adjust to make it identical as a flotilla plot.

Okay, gave this a little more thought and now I'm thinking you mean a naval base adjusted to the coordinates in the flotilla.cfg file. Am I getting warmer?

[Flaxpants]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

That is most likely because you need to immediately set the order 'follow waypoints' befeore the boat moves too far off course.

Ok, I didn't actually know that Jim, so next time I'll give it a go, thanks.

I take it back about the button names!