airplanes

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

BTW if your seeing Swordfish that is a clear indicator there is a carrier nearby.

How near is "nearby"? 20km? 50km? 100km?

What sort of range are the swordfish working.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by the.terrabyte.pirate

How near is "nearby"? 20km? 50km? 100km?

What sort of range are the swordfish working.

Interrogate the data\air folder and see what their radius is.

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Interrogate the data\air folder and see what their radius is.

I've found the range. Am I assuming that the furthest it can possibly be from the carrier is half the range, being that it needs to have sufficient fuel to return to the carrier?

I guess it's a shot in the dark. The range (if I'm reading it correctly) is well outside of sonar range. All you can do is set a path back along the path of the swordfish, and hope that when you reach the calculated range of the swordfish that the carrier hasn't moved so far away that you can't hear it on sonar.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by the.terrabyte.pirate

I've found the range. Am I assuming that the furthest it can possibly be from the carrier is half the range, being that it needs to have sufficient fuel to return to the carrier?

I guess it's a shot in the dark. The range (if I'm reading it correctly) is well outside of sonar range. All you can do is set a path back along the path of the swordfish, and hope that when you reach the calculated range of the swordfish that the carrier hasn't moved so far away that you can't hear it on sonar.

The range is how far it can travel before it has to return but I've also seen aircraft exhaust their range and plummet into the sea

Regarding setting a path along the path of the Swordfish...yes, that is the general idea.