Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:23 am
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Enforced pitching can be very exciting and sometimes quite terrifying. Simulating stuck aft hydroplanes and practicing incoming torpedo evasion really gets the pulse going - and it has absolutely no effect on stomached contents. “Angles and dangles” is an exercise where, say, the aft hydroplanes are set and held at 5 degrees bow down or up and speed set at just 5 knots to feel the effect - nice and gentle at the start by going astern to recover out of it. The “stuck” angles and speed are increased then, things become hectic when you get to over 20 deg. I was laying in my bunk in the latter stages (its safer there) as stuff that you thought was secure starts to fly about. The inclinometer only goes to about 10deg, so someone tied a bolt to a piece of string and stuck it to a for’d/aft bulkhead. At one stage we had a 57deg bow up angle and I was actually standing in the end of my bunk. A total ballsup really but it was keep at it until perfected.
Torpedo evasion practice sends the boat around at crazy angles too, but with no astern movements to correct. Sending out a decoy out can be fraught - trying to hold on whist operating the submerged signal ejector, which is a dodgy bit of gear anyway.
Torpedo evasion practice sends the boat around at crazy angles too, but with no astern movements to correct. Sending out a decoy out can be fraught - trying to hold on whist operating the submerged signal ejector, which is a dodgy bit of gear anyway.
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