Dodging D's

[legion78]

Was hoping you could give a new guy some insight. Had some questions about dealing with destroyers.

1. At what distance can they see you during the day with decent weather and at night? Ballpark figure of course.

2. At what distance should I go reduce speed to prevent them from hearing me with hydrophones?

3. At what range can they ping me?

Lost my first boat to depth charges tonight and just couldn't seem to shake him. July 1940. AN16 near Scapa.

I guess i'm looking for a basic strategy to deal with them. Some of your basic bread and butter moves would help me out greatly. Whats the first thing you guys like to do for instance, and some general manuevers.

This guy pinged the crap out of me. So I figured full speed knuckle since he knows where I am anyways. Try to put some distance between us and go silent at the end of his attack run. Seemed I would be in the clear for awhile but then he would pick me up again, rinse, repeat until I died. Any help in this area would be appreciated as right now i'm just kinda shootin from the hip and trying my best not to freak out.