Author Topic: Range to target from carrier  (Read 437 times)

Offline FxNytro

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Range to target from carrier
« on: August 11, 2008, 09:15:06 AM »
While taking off from a carrier the other day I heard someone briefly explain how to figure range to target with the clipboard I believe.  I didn't catch all the pilot said.  Can someone explain this please.

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Re: Range to target from carrier
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2008, 09:57:21 AM »
Could have been two things he was talking about.

You can roughly judge distances on the clipboard quite easy: Grid lines are 25 miles apart, the radius of a radar range circle is ~12 miles

But as you said you dind't catch all it could also have been about shooting with the cruiser's 8" guns at land targets using "Land Mode" and clipboard.
If you enter that mode while in ship's guns, you can simply click on the point on map where you want your shells to fall.
For more on that topic, see http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/bigguns/bigguns.htm
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Re: Range to target from carrier
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2008, 11:50:09 AM »
Thanks Lusche, thats what it was.  Land mode with the 8"guns.

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Re: Range to target from carrier
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2008, 07:14:10 PM »
  FX that might have been me. read the link Lusche gave ya.