Sonar gives wrong results?

[BigWalleye]

Originally Posted by maillemaker

So on my last career I survived long enough to get sonar, and I tried it out. I dialed the hydrophone until I had a target, and then I pinged it.

It returned a range.

But every time you click it, you get a wildly different, smaller value. Much smaller than can be accounted for by closing speeds.

I can click a dozen times in a few seconds and cut the range in half.

What gives?

Steve

This post might shed some light on why you didn't get good results using active sonar. (The post would be more useful if it had some attribution! Sigh!)

http://uboat.net/forums/read.php?20,59905,60690