User Guide

Green: 0-4 feet thick
Yellow: 4- 8 feet thick
Red: 8- 12 feet or more
The Akula’s forward looking High Frequency Active Sonar (HFAS) shares this display screen.
• Click
UPWARD LOOKING in the Alignment Panel to view the Ice Display/
• Click
FORWARD LOOKING to view HFAS returns. For information on marking contacts with the
HFAS see Ship Stations/Sonar/Active Sonar/Akula: High Frequency Active Sonar on p. 91.
AUTO CREWMEN
Auto Crewmen can be turned on or off on the Options>Crew page at any point during gameplay or
from any station that has an Auto Crewman. See below.The proficiency of all Auto Crewmembers
is approximately 85 %.Your crew is not infallible!
To turn an Auto Crewman on or off:
• In Options>Crew click in the box in front of the desired crewmember.A checkmark indicates the
crewman is on. Click in the box again to toggle its state.
• Click the text of the station name. If that station has an automated crewman, the cursor turns to
a finger. Click the text to activate the crew for that station.The text changes to indicate that the
station is automated. Click again to deactivate the crewman.
NOTE: Auto Crewmen are on by default if Novice setting was selected at installation or enabled in
the Options>Crew page.To successfully play from the Nav Station, all Auto Crew should be
enabled.
SONAR AUTO CREWMAN
■ In Narrowband: Assigns trackers, classifies all marked contacts in Narrowband and assigns a
Low,Medium, or High level of confidence in his classification.The level of confidence displays
in the Navigation Station’s DDI and above the 3D model when that contact is selected.
Low level of Confidence: Crewman has narrowed the possible classes to 4 or more and picks
one at random.
Medium Level of Confidence: Crewman has narrowed the possible classes to 2 or 3 and picks
one at random.
High Level of Confidence: Crewman has narrowed the possible classes to one.
The Auto-Sonarman searches Narrowband for contacts. Because they share trackers, contacts
marked in Narrowband also display in Broadband.
In Broadband: Tracker letters for contacts marked in Narrowband appear above the contact (in
Seawolf, 688(I) or inside the contact peak (Akula) in the Broadband Displays.
When the auto crewman is ON you can still mark contacts yourself and select different arrays and
contacts for the crewman to analyze.
■ On the Nav Map: Each contact marked by your Sonar Auto Crewman appears on the Nav map
as a colored line of bearing ending with a symbol.This is usually the symbol for Unknown
(platform type)/Unknown (alliance) and is accompanied by its contact designation number (S01,
S02, etc).As soon as your Sonar Auto Crewman has classified the contact, the symbol changes
to that of the specified class. (See Ship Stations/Navigation Station/Contact Symbols on p. 43.)
Clicking on the contact designation displays information about the class in the DDI and the 3D
model of that class appears in the 3D view surrounded by a bounding yellow bounding box and
a level of confidence bar.
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