This is getting ridiclous!

[gimpy117]

yeah it's getting really bad, it's patrol 2 and i can't get away!!!

[mookiemookie]

If you're spotted by aircraft, you'll invite more air strikes along your projected course. Try changing course and submerging for a while.

[tomoose]

If you're using the stock game then your problem will not go away, the air attacks are completely out of whack. Get Trigger Maru or one of the other major mods, they have tweaked the air attacks to a more realistic level.

[gimpy117]

well i turned the "defalt attack prob" from 10 to .2 and it seems to work.
i saw 2 planes the rest of the way and they missed me luckily!

[Go4It]

Except 4 the speed of some of the aircraft I find the stock air traffic good. If ur spotted by enemy aircraft their gonna patrol that area like flies on sh*t!!! Ounce ur radar spots an aircraft DIVE an stay there for an hour or two, resuface an continue patrol at reduced speed to recharge batteries. I don't use all of TM, just bits an pieces 'cause there's NO readme explaining what each file does an I CAN'T put something in my system without knowing what it does.

[joegrundman]

I was the captain of the USS Gar too. My radar for some reason didn't give me warning of a Japanese plane on a pre-dawn patrol and i got hit badly amidships before i could complete my crash dive to safety.

I decided to head for home but came across another plane. This time radar did detect it, so i dived down but was wary of diving too deep with 75% damage. I only went to 120 feet.

I can now say with confidence that 120 feet is not deep enough to be invisible to planes. I got hit underwater. Damage was 100%. I hit blow ballast, but that was it. USS Gar was lost at sea, it said with all hands lost, but this is not the case.

I managed to reach the surface and although 8 men were killed in the explosion the others all got into the sea. 3 men died of hypothermia the others were picked up by a Japanese sub chaser. Another 8 died in captivity, 1 in the Hiroshima blast, the rest made it home.

Ok i made that last paragraph up, but it's true that planes can spot you at 120 feet with TM

[Capn_Sinky]

I picked up planes before on radar an I use the TA feature and plot them like I plot ships and if they are far enough away I won't dive. Ill let them pass. If you click on the plane it will show a ring arould it. That is their visual search radius and your pretty safe if your just outside of it. Depending on sea conditions I've even clipped the edge of it and still wasn't spotted. If you've ever played flightsim you know flying over the ocean and trying to search for anything smaller than a DE is pretty hard. You've got to be really close like under 5 miles before u can pick out small targets like a DE. The fleet boats are even smaller than that, not much sticking up to see. The wake is what reall gives you away to aircarft. You have to be aware of the sea conditions. If the surface is is smooth like glass they can spot your wake from long distance. The rougher the surface the harder it is to find the wake. If the flies start swarming then dive and run at 3kts, till dark and then surface and run at standard until batteries are charged and then go to full or flank speed to make up distance.