No sound contacts whatsoever

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I have noticed that if you descend to 80 feet and cut your motors, you can actually pick up sound contacts that you would not be able to hear. Try it and see, you can hear the difference when the sub's motors stop. Ideally, the sound change would occur when the sub's speed nears 0 knots, but anyway, pretty neat. Also, worth noting that without forward propulsion, the sub should slowly rise or descend, depending on the state of trim, but that is probably not modeled.

thanks for the tip, I will give it a try.

[-Pv-]

"... I have noticed that if you descend to 80 feet and cut your motors..."

It's the killing of the motors that has more effect than the depth.

Now as far as "parascope depth"...

There is a key that sets a default parascope depth but this "depth" is not the only one at which your parascope "works." Even at the default setting your scope can be washed out by waves (even tini ones) and you can lose contacts you're looking at. In other words, you can set depths that are shallower and deeper than what is required to use the parascope, so in effect you have a RANGE of depths at which you can use the parascope effectively without broaching the boat nor totally submerging the scope making it useless. Thus, the default "parascope depth" setting is actually a mid point between a range of possibilitites. That the sound gear doesn't function at the shallow end of this range doesn't bother me because I can use the scope and use the sound gear.
No Problem.
-Pv-

[horrgakx]

Parascope? Why would scopes from our own Parachute Regiment be on a sub?? :hmm: