TMA and Bearing Rate question.

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth

Apology accepted . Yes, the bearing rate is only as good as your TMA. I used to think it was the actual bearing rate also until I tried Ekelund ranging and got really weird results. I REALLY REALLY wish Sonalysts would give you the bearing rate of a tracker so you don't have to pull out a stop watch.

PD

Its likely item # 12000 and SCS are fixing (with patch 1.04) item # 20. :rotfl:
Oh well, i suppose getting a real bearing rate indicator in the game isn't possibile through modding ? :hmm:
Where are luftwolf and amizur when you need them ?

[SeaQueen]

Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth

Apology accepted . Yes, the bearing rate is only as good as your TMA. I used to think it was the actual bearing rate also until I tried Ekelund ranging and got really weird results. I REALLY REALLY wish Sonalysts would give you the bearing rate of a tracker so you don't have to pull out a stop watch.
PD

I dunno... I like playing DW stopwatch in hand, with a spreadsheet by my side. People think I'm crazy for it, but... NOW you all are finally seeing the wisdom of my ways aren't you?

All this nonsense about Ekelund ranging and geometry you thought was just the babblings of a crazed scientist locked in the basement of a Pentagon think tank didn't you? HA! Don't worry, my coworkers think the same thing.

Next you all will be pondering shallow sound channels, cutoff frequencies, Lloyd mirror beams, and transmission loss curves while pouring over Koopman, trying to figure out what the heck was he trying to do in Chapter 6 anyhow?

I knew there'd be vindication eventually...

AND EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY!!! HA!!!!

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth

Apology accepted . Yes, the bearing rate is only as good as your TMA. I used to think it was the actual bearing rate also until I tried Ekelund ranging and got really weird results. I REALLY REALLY wish Sonalysts would give you the bearing rate of a tracker so you don't have to pull out a stop watch.

PD

However, if you enter a fake solution (for one leg) by placing the ruler as perpendicular as possible to the latest (meaningfull) bearings in TMAstation it should produce an average bearingrate in the nav station. Although I really want atleast one more decimal in that number to be really effective. It's too crude now. (Then again, I'm a sucker for precision which ultimately slows me down) Entering the solution does however place a history dot at the wrong place on the map which clutters and could confuse you later.

I must admit, I haven't thoroughly tested this in the game (only recently figured it out), nor do I have any real life experience in naval matters, but I think the geometry and math would work out.