User Guide

■ Your task: Your Sonar Auto Crewman can classify a contact as a specific class, but he can not
determine its alliance.You must do that yourself on the Nav map.
• On the Nav map, right-click the contact’s symbol to display the Contact menu.
• Select Designate Type/Alliance>Alliance and drag your cursor to select the presumed alliance for
the contact.
TMA AUTO CREWMAN
Accurate TMA takes time.Your TMA Auto Crewman requires data from several sensors and/or a
change in Ownship’s course to generate an accurate firing solution. Reports from multiple sensors
(for example both the towed and sphere arrays) increase his accuracy as well as the speed at
which he creates a firing solution.
The TMA Auto Crewman performs the following duties.
■ Uses information reported from all sensors to determine a firing solution.This solution is his
best estimate of the course, bearing,range and speed of a contact.
■ Merges contacts that represent the same track reported by different sensors.
■ Keeps track of the movement of each contact and updates the solution on the Nav and Fire
Control Maps with every new sensor input. The solution is updated immediately with his best
guess whenever a contact is selected from the drop-down list in the TMA station.
■ Once the crewman enters a solution for a contact, the contact then appears as a symbol on the
Nav map at the designated range and bearing and the solution is also sent to Fire Control for
use in targeting.The symbol for Unknown (platform type)/Unknown (alliance) is displayed until
you or the Sonar Auto Crewman classifies it.
■ The Nav map symbol for the contact moves on the map according to the course and speed set
in the solution.
■ Accuracy: Approximately 85%.
NOTE: When TMA Auto Crewman is on,you can select specific contacts to view on the TMA board,
but you are not able to manipulate the ruler or the settings. If you move the ruler your
crewman moves it back to the position he selected.
FIRE CONTROL AUTO CREWMAN
The Fire Control Auto Crewman performs the following duty.
■ Uses information sent from the TMA station to establish presets for selected weapon
appropriate for the designated target.
■ Your Task: It is still your responsibility to select a target, assign a tube, and fire the weapon
from the Fire Control Launch Panel or by using the Contact menu’s Engage With command from
the Nav.Your Fire Control Auto Crewman uses the contact’s classification when determining
presets. If you classify a contact as a surface ship when in actuality it is a submarine, you Auto
Crewman enters presets appropriate for a surface ship.
NOTE: When the Fire Control Auto Crewman is ON you can set only Snapshot bearings and place
waypoints in the presets.All other presets are grayed out.
RADAR AUTO CREWMAN
You must raise and lower the radar mast. Your Radar Auto Crewman performs the following task as
long as the radar is on.
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