Soundman incompetence

mike_espo · 02-16-06, 08:01 PM

I was playing the Narvik scenario. In a type IID....love that boat!

Made an attack on the Warspite, hit her with two eels...she did not go down....

anyway, after the escorts then attacked me which I evaded, I asked the hydrophone operator for continuous reports from nearest warship, he kept reporting a contact that was receding at long range....Ok! I made it!

NO!

he failed to inform me of the destroyer that was 600m away, I only heard it when his props washed overhead

Luckly, his aim was poor, so I went silent and bottomed out the boat in shallow water...29m. and just waited for them to go..took about an hour.

Anyway, are the hydrophone operators always this lousy? I had a CPO with 150/200 experience and he was not fatigued..I should say he did not have a sonar rating though....

02-16-06, 08:01 PM	#1
mike_espo Sonar Guy Join Date: May 2005 Location: Chicago, USA Posts: 396 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Soundman incompetence I was playing the Narvik scenario. In a type IID....love that boat! Made an attack on the Warspite, hit her with two eels...she did not go down.... anyway, after the escorts then attacked me which I evaded, I asked the hydrophone operator for continuous reports from nearest warship, he kept reporting a contact that was receding at long range....Ok! I made it! NO! he failed to inform me of the destroyer that was 600m away, I only heard it when his props washed overhead Luckly, his aim was poor, so I went silent and bottomed out the boat in shallow water...29m. and just waited for them to go..took about an hour. Anyway, are the hydrophone operators always this lousy? I had a CPO with 150/200 experience and he was not fatigued..I should say he did not have a sonar rating though....