WIND

[stodd]

Wind........ I have wind all day! 

But wind might be the only thing that will stop this bomber pilots ability to hit the cockroaches that hang out by stodd's tent on base.  (He leaves cookie crumbs)

A silly way to say........ Wind can only make good bomber pilots bad, and suddenly make them get better.  I like to get better.  Don't you?

[macerxgp]

Wind works just fine in Flight Simulator 2004. And my 7 year old computer holding a 1.33 GHz processor, 512MB DDR2 7600GS NVIDIA Video Card, Sound Blaster Audigy Sound Card, and a Seagate 7200RPM ATA Hard Drive runs the game just fine with max detail.

No, I don't think we would need supercomputers for a bit more reality.

THAT'S why wind isn't a problem, dude.

[Motherland]

You realize that the current generation of nVIDIA cards is 9x00, right? Even the 8600GTS in my computer you can get for under $100 now, and the 8800 is in the $150 range, I think.

[Denholm]

THAT'S why wind isn't a problem, dude.

My motherboard runs at 600 Hertz, so the card is capped at 1/4 performance making it junk. Still runs flight simulator fine.

[trigger2]

Krusty,
    Your a pessimistic fellow aren't you? Rockets and bombs do interact with wind forces. A simple test would be to launch the rockets from the 251. In reverse the rockets travel farther than in forward. Why? Weather cocking effects from the wind. Its the same reason rockets travel in the direction of flight and not the aim point. Same with bombs.... Wind may not be completely accurate in all respects but its hardly has bad as you describe. Your last comment smells like stink bait so I will leave you to it. Stick your hands out of the window....artifical wind...

Edit: Your whole post sort of smells to be quite honest.

Steel

What krusty is saying, is that the effects of the wind will follow ord. even after it is broken out of where the wind was. Stabilizing fins were put on to ensure they traveled fairly straight (and they worked fairly well) and then add in the inertia effects... it doesn't work how it's supposed to. The wind is not accurate, as the physics that it acts upon are not modeled (ie friction, newtons laws, inertia etc...).
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[Lukanian-7]

Oi, you people. Do I have to introduce Newton's Law? Duh, The bomb is'nt going to lose it's sideway path when it reaches neutral, air.

It takes a force in the opposite direction to make the object stationary again. or alot of friction, but air is'nt very frictionate, now is it.