Using a fictitious course to set TDC

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Diopos

RR
(and everybody else interested)
regarding the ficticious course attempt
up to now I have this: link

Hope it is "understandable"...

Fire Away!

(going deep now ...)

VERY interesting. Ideally I'd like to come up with a graphical solution so that external calculators aren't necessary. But I'm thinking that placement of the fictitious course influences the solution. Your diagram is better than mine. I need to get to work on something similar, showing two bearing sights, plus the firing position, plus the torpedo track.

Then the question: how does placement of the fictitious course influence solution quality? What kind of error tolerance do we have? I'm thinking at this point that we might have to use a visual AoB estimate to fix a non-right angle position of the fictitious course.

Good work! Now you've made me burn some midnight oil.