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[SeaQueen]

Originally Posted by Kurushio

Hi SeaQueen ....yeah I'll stick to TMA but rereading the sectiion in the manual last night gave me a migraine... I was beginning to sort of get the gist when I came to the part that says"Contacts marked in Active Sonar, Radar and Stadimeter appear as a bearing/range pair on the TMA board." What?

Really, I didn't like the manual's section on TMA. I thought it wasn't particularly well presented. I know some of the people here put together a TMA guide. I haven't read it, but a lot of them swear by it.

I learned TMA by screwing around with a piece of software the Navy put together for training sonar techs.

While you're learning, just use autoTMA. You will loose a feel for the uncertainty involved in ASW, because the AutoTMA makes it possible to overlook some things. A lot of people think it has access to "ground truth" as well. I'm not totally certain that it did, but at the minimum it does calculations faster and more accurately than most people do.

There's a body of mathematics for bearings only TMA that I suspect was built into the sim, so they could model it with the AI.

Anyhow... I hope this proves to be useful.