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    Avatar photoLaurence Pariaug
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    Hi David,

    1) Sea state not included

    A huge difference when spotting e. g. a small vessel from a very small vessel which is bounced in a choppy sea rather than in a calm sea, at night.

    Any reason why you do not consider the sea state as a modifier?

    If you would, how do you propose to implement?

     

    2) SpottingĀ  – size of target and observer

    “The marker should approximate the size of the craft that it represents.”

    A marker you want to spot is somehow pre-identified very much by the marker’s size: “Captain, I think it is Vosper (very small) rather than a Fairmile (small)!”.

    So the spotting table with sizes of target and observer looks somehow absurd to me. It takes a lot of the spice to play with spotting.

    Without, you need a new base visibility chart – 1 base visibility in inches with no significant moonlight, a basic for the modifiers?

     

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