GHG or KDB ?

Originally Posted by Steppenwolf

GHG has about a 20 degree blind zone in front of the sub and about a 60 degree blind zone in the rear. KDB eliminates the front blind zone and reduces the rear one to about 40 degrees.

Darn shame that manually using the hydrophones gives you a fully functional 360 degree listening area.

[ref]

I think the limit is not a hard one, the hydro rotates 360º, the blind (should be deaf) spot it's because of your own propellers noise.

Ref

[Steppenwolf]

@Ref
There is a blind(deaf) zone limit in the Sensors.dat file from the BearingMin and BearingMax entries. This zone seems to work correctly on the Navmap (the sonar contact line will not be updated properly when in that zone even if you are stopped) if your crew is running the sonar. However, as Albrecht Von Hesse points out, if you are at the Hydrophone control station running it yourself, I don't THINK the zones apply and you can hear in all directions.

[Lanzfeld]

Originally Posted by Steppenwolf

@Ref
There is a blind(deaf) zone limit in the Sensors.dat file from the BearingMin and BearingMax entries. This zone seems to work correctly on the Navmap (the sonar contact line will not be updated properly when in that zone even if you are stopped) if your crew is running the sonar. However, as Albrecht Von Hesse points out, if you are at the Hydrophone control station running it yourself, I don't THINK the zones apply and you can hear in all directions.

This is part of the reason I always like to let my crew man the hydrophones and not me (also deckgun and flak)....but they are just to unreliable at detecting obvious things.