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Originally Posted by Pilot_76
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OK, now back to GE.
I wanted to use it as dead reckoning because the maps are much more detailed graphically and it has more information such as small islands name's. I think SH maps is very very "raw" or a GE beta 0.1 version.
As some have mentioned out, I'll have some trouble with distances and the likes but I was wondering if for short distances I'd be ok...
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Bad idea. Unless you stick to sailing on the equator you'll soon start to experience the effects of pole-stretching. Even then, in the SH3 world (or SH4 ... Darn, I keep forgetting I'm not in the Atlantic in this Forum), 1 degree (longitude and latitude) is exactly 120km in length. That's not the same as on our real Earth, or in Google Earth for that matter. How short are the distances you have in mind? Sooner or later in the game you'll have to patrol near places like Narvik, Norway. Or cross Cape Horn, South Africa. Well, you don't really have to, but that's history. My advice is to plot and reckon yourself to death (DD will make sure of that
) in the reality you live in. And that is the SH3/4 world. If you really want the extra info, then plot the track on GE, but just use it as a projection tool.
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-Real navigation mod on SH3 and 4 (Is there one for SHV?). DR and Celestial 100% in use.
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Are you aware of this one? It's initially designed for SH4, but can also be made to work for SH3. (who knows, maybe SH5 too)
It uses an external sky simulator to do precise star fixing. And comes with tables and charts to do the number crunching by hand if you like.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=135215