Midway observations

[Volcano Man]

Not sure what you mean. Are you talking about assigning bearings to launching search planes? The simple thing about it is that it is simply the degrees on a compass with north being 0, east 90, south 180, west 270. So, regardless of which direction you are heading, if you tell the search planes to search from 0 to 90, they are always flying out in an arc from north to east. Maybe I am misunderstanding the issue though.

What I generally do is assign about 40 degrees to the search arc, and then over lap with other carriers in the group. Now the headache comes when you assign the minimum degree to the maximum by accident and they fly out on a 320 degree search arc instead. ;) Of course then can be easily corrected by assigning them another new search mission quickly.