Determining course of contact that is "smoke on the horizon"

pythos · 06-18-14, 02:35 PM

It was a destroyer, and what you said is what I was thinking, the contact was going fast. So does that mean this method won't work on fast moving contacts? I got the initial report, set my heading toward the contact (smoke on the horizon), set my speed to 10 kts, marked my point, and drew a 30km line. Waited 2 minutes, and placed the next mark, I forget the bearings given. As I stated though, the lines fanned out, and the terminiation point of the lines if a line was drawn from point to point would almost parallel the course of the contact. (recall I did have map contacts on).
Hope this helps.

06-18-14, 02:35 PM	#19
pythos Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2005 Location: Somewhere over there Posts: 834 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	It was a destroyer, and what you said is what I was thinking, the contact was going fast. So does that mean this method won't work on fast moving contacts? I got the initial report, set my heading toward the contact (smoke on the horizon), set my speed to 10 kts, marked my point, and drew a 30km line. Waited 2 minutes, and placed the next mark, I forget the bearings given. As I stated though, the lines fanned out, and the terminiation point of the lines if a line was drawn from point to point would almost parallel the course of the contact. (recall I did have map contacts on). Hope this helps.