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With my big Engel fleet boat construction continuing, I would like some info as to the timing and sequence of events that would happen when an actual fleet boat dives and surfaces.
It is my understanding that when diving, the lookouts become the plane operators. That would mean that the ballast tanks are flooded, the lookouts would tumble down to the control room to man the planes, and about the same time the bow planes would be rigged out. Is this correct? So a model would start to flood the tanks and then rig out the planes????
On surfacing from periscope depth, I understand that high pressure air is used to get the boat to the surface, and that turbo blowers are used to completely blow the tanks. When are the bow planes rigged in? On the way up to the surface, once on the surface so the plane operators again become lookouts, or when?
I am trying to get an idea of how to realistically operate my boat once (and when) I get it constructed. Help!
Thanks.
Jim Schwinkendorf
Pacific, MO
It is my understanding that when diving, the lookouts become the plane operators. That would mean that the ballast tanks are flooded, the lookouts would tumble down to the control room to man the planes, and about the same time the bow planes would be rigged out. Is this correct? So a model would start to flood the tanks and then rig out the planes????
On surfacing from periscope depth, I understand that high pressure air is used to get the boat to the surface, and that turbo blowers are used to completely blow the tanks. When are the bow planes rigged in? On the way up to the surface, once on the surface so the plane operators again become lookouts, or when?
I am trying to get an idea of how to realistically operate my boat once (and when) I get it constructed. Help!
Thanks.
Jim Schwinkendorf
Pacific, MO