The Trainer's site has a good write up.
http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/ Simple Checklist.
* Pick plane and fuel & bomb load for the target you want to hit.
- 500 lbs good for strat targets and buildings
- 1000 lbs good for hangars
* 25% to 50% fuel usually enough for a run.
* Climb to altitude under full power. Be sure to raise flaps before, or shortly after you take off (depends on plane and what's beyond the runway).
* Once you are at your bombing altitude, or 25 miles out from target. Level, line up on target best you can from map.
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X is autolevel. You want autolevel, and when possible, combat trim.
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Reduce your MAN (Manifold) (aka throttle to some) to a speed that will level out your altitude. 35 to 40 MAN in B-17's and B-24's work. MAN setting is somewhat dependent on altitude, so this you will have to work out on your own with experimentation. Bombers running at full throttle on a run with early calibration, tend to climb in altitude, even if on autolevel, which results in the drop landing long. I try to be level and even speed 25 miles out.
* Check in you bombsite with early calibration, bomb bay doors open. What you want is very little difference in your drop speed and altitude as compared to your current speed and altitude. Some use the ESB to help them with this, but with time, you should get a technique down that allows you to just use the bomb sight.
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F6 to enter bombsight view.
U to enter calibration mode.
Y to calibrate the bombsite.
U to exit bombsite view.
* Use
J and
L for minor course corrections. "Turret turn" (use of rudder controls -- if you have a joystick with rudder ability -- turn while in a gunner position and in external view) is more stable for major turns that joystick from cockpit.
* any major direction change, altitude change, or MAN change, will throw off the calibration of your bombsite. Calibrate early, often, and for a long time if possible. Check those speed and altitude numbers.
Bombing in game is very accurate if done with some forethought and patience. I use 500 lb bombs on strats from 25 to 30K, single salvo, long calibrations, with about 90% accuracy. That translates into loitering at sub orbital altitudes over a small airfield and completely de-strating (dar, ord, troops, fuel) it with 3 - B-17's loaded with 50% fuel and 12-500 lb bombs.
I go for strats since they stay down longer unless resupplied. Hangars 15 minutes down time not a factor unless you are also capping and capturing a field. I also like to take out those fuel bunkers to try and force pilots out of short-legged aircraft. "I'm not happy unless your not happy"
