Yes I know how to settle speed.
The point is that I have no way to know if my calibration is any good at all.
So I just drop and pray they hit, that is not the way to get people to do something.
You need to give people something they can easily see to motivate them to get there.
Right now it feels like you need to put hours of practise and all that practise will mean nothing if there is even a tiny change in flight parameters and my bombs will drop way off target.
If I have a speed indicator then I could judge my speed and decide this is not a good run and go around to try again.
Right now I just waster my bombs.
Avro, if you know how to settle speed, then
you know everything. I mean, just how hard is it exactly to pick a reference point,
hold the cross hairs to it for and press a button 3~10 seconds?
If there's a change in flight parameters, then you
learn to compensate for it, like dropping a little bit earlier with 3~4 salvo with different delay settings - that part is what you have to learn with experience, and it's also what makes the difference between a
good bombardier and a bad one.
Besides, if the flight parameter has really changed only a tiny bit, it doesn't make any real difference at all - if the aim is thrown off
so much that multiple salvos of bombs dropped
all miss, then either you made a drastic change unfit for bombing, or you planned a wrong bomb run - plain and simple.
Did real buff pilots have any 'indicators' or 'guarantees' where their bomb would fall? Of course not.
When flying fighters, do we have a lead calcualtor sight that suggests where exactly our bullets will land? Of course not.
We learn those things, and practice, and hope our personal skills are up to the task - we let the guns fire, bombs drop, and hope we aimed it right.
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If I have a speed indicator then I could judge my speed and decide this is not a good run and go around to try again.
Right now I just waster my bombs
This part, is the difference between a good bomber pilot and a bad one. A good bomber pilot, prepares a bomb run long enough to assure him that the speed is adequate. If you're having doubts that you may miss the drop because you're speed may be wrong - then it mean naught but that you are that much inexperienced, or lacking practice.
There's a reason why bombers enter a long, steady bomb run despite risk of being a sitting duck. If you miss the drops so much that it is frustrating for you, it merely means you aren't doing a good bomb run.
