How do I measure speed?

Notewire · 09-28-06, 05:49 AM

This is a good thread, and gets to the meat of helping us improve as Kaluens.

Payoff, does that work regardless of range? It has been a long time since I studied geometry, but it seems that range would affect knots given the time from bow to stern.

I will say, that I am working on this one myself - as I had been using the 3:15 rule exclusively - but then I started playing with no map contacts - Yikes! Now the 3:15 rule is much harder - as it is difficult to guage the range perfectly. Also, with NYGM - the watch officer doesn't give you uber range estimations. Now I am working on a 6:30 rule, and dividing by two to get speed, but still the Fast 90 shots are very difficult.

Anybody got any good tips?

09-28-06, 05:49 AM	#9
Notewire Soundman Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 143 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	This is a good thread, and gets to the meat of helping us improve as Kaluens. Payoff, does that work regardless of range? It has been a long time since I studied geometry, but it seems that range would affect knots given the time from bow to stern. I will say, that I am working on this one myself - as I had been using the 3:15 rule exclusively - but then I started playing with no map contacts - Yikes! Now the 3:15 rule is much harder - as it is difficult to guage the range perfectly. Also, with NYGM - the watch officer doesn't give you uber range estimations. Now I am working on a 6:30 rule, and dividing by two to get speed, but still the Fast 90 shots are very difficult. Anybody got any good tips?