Originally posted by 101ABN
what i do is get to a nice alt.. (25-28K for me).. about a sector out from target i open my doors to get plane to constant speed.. once cruising good ill go to bomb sight.. ill move the crosshairs forward pretty far, zoom in, find a tree to aim at and then calibrate while keeping the crosshairs on the tree or whatever target i pick.. ill hold my calibration key for about 10-15 seconds keeping the crosshairs on my tree..... sometimes ill have to do it twice. Im pretty good at bombing and ill hit on the money 90% of the time. when you drop your first salvo and your not perfect calibration, your aircraft will start to speed up and that will throw your next salvo off... for example, your in lancs with 14K bombload.. your calibration is off by +3 MPH.. you release a salvo of 3 (3K worth of bombs), you aircraft is now 3000lbs lighter.. your going to be +4 MPH or more off on your next quick drop.. ive noticed this before.. look me up in the MA sometime and we can go on a run and ill show you what i mean. my callsign in the game is ken96r30
You do not need to hold your crosshairs on anything to calibrate.
1) Level out
2) Open doors
3) Allow speed to stablize
4) Press F6 to enter bombsight
5) Bring up clipboard and E6B
6) Press U to enter calibration
7) Press Y for 10 sec and release
8) If calibrated speed = E6B speed, Press U to exit calibration. If not, repeat. (Note: If you cannot get the speeds to match exactly, +- 2 mph is ok. If the E6B speed is 2 mph faster than your calibrated speed, drop a little sooner, if E6B speed is 2 mph slower than your E6B speed, drop a little later. This is depeneds on your speed difference and you'll have to experiment to find what works.)
9) Minimize clipboard
10) Zoom bombsight and make very small addjustments to flight path using sitck if needed.
11) Right before crosshairs cross target, release bombs.
12) Close doors
13) Fly home.