.Salvo and .Delay

[Yeager]

To be constricted to 0.05 for delay has no use.  If I pack twenty 100pnd bombs (for example), I need to be able to salvo at least four for decent hit probablity but being constrained to 0.05 as a minimum is like this:click..........click......... .click

Its worthless in the arena.  I should be able to salvo strings damn near simultaneously.

Right now I simply wont be using this feature.  Why all the different loadouts?  There is no use for the salvo and delay settings.

Yeager

[CavemanJ]

The best use I've found for the salvo command is for rockets so you can kick off 4 at a time at acks and kill them.
The other times I've used it have been when hitting the HQ, and on our last 2 large raids, all 17s used .salvo 12 for carpet bombing of the city we were hitting.
You can get a tighter group by reducing your airspeed before you drop.

[Terror]

A delay of 5 "Hundredths" of a second is too much?  ".05" of a second is pretty good I think.  The bombs are rack and stacked in the bomb bay in close proximity to each other.  There has to be a delay between each release or you have a chance of bombs colliding in freefall and exploding before reaching target.  (This is probably not modeled in AH currently.)

Terror

PS.  In a B17, I slow to less than 150mph when I am on a bomb run.  At that speed I can get 3 1000lb'ers on the HQ in one pass.

[Yeager]

Thats what I thought too terror so I tried it and the delay to drop 8 bombs at .salvo 8, .delay 0.05 took well over 2 seconds.

I have seen bomb bay footage of B-17s dropping sticks of 500 pndrs just damn near simultaneously.

Yeager