I wish for turbulence and wind and tricky landings and no brake limiter

[kvuo75]

It's my understanding that wind doesn't affect bombs once they're dropping - it only affects your plane, in effect pushing you off target.  But, I doubt you'll ever see wind in the Mains...only in special events and the AvA.

sorry but i feel the need to say some basic stuff:

wind is nothing more than a mass of air that is moving relative to the ground

airplanes fly thru air

bombs fall thru air


there doesn't even need to be a ground to reference to, for an airplane to fly, and for it's bombs to fall along a ballistic arc.

[colmbo]

All the more reason to use pedals. Aircraft of the WWII era didnt use brakes as much as you do in all likelihood. I know for instance that the P-51s and B-17 manuals instruct pilots to stay off the brakes when the gear is retracted or the brakes could weld to the discs.

Not sure about the Mustang but our procedure was to use light braking to stop the wheel from spinning before retracting.  If you don't you'll get a "burnt rubber" smell in the a/c from the tire rubbing against the bumper in the wheel well.

What you didn't do on the B-17 or B-24 was leave the parking brake set after landing.  If you've really heated the brakes up you'll heat and overexpand the brake bladder causing it to rupture.

[ImADot]

sorry but i feel the need to say some basic stuff:

wind is nothing more than a mass of air that is moving relative to the ground

airplanes fly thru air

bombs fall thru air


there doesn't even need to be a ground to reference to, for an airplane to fly, and for it's bombs to fall along a ballistic arc.

Ok, I was referring to the game, not real life.  In the game, wind pushes your aircraft but I don't think it pushes the bombs.  If you're talking about real life, it's irrelevant because the game is not real life.

[Noir]

wind do push bombs in AH, I remember a fso frame where we had to compensate for the wind in the sight. But thats just IIRC

[Krusty]

I believe Brooke or Strip or somebody did some test with the wind... There were opposing wind layers at different alts... So that flying just above (I can't recall so I'll make up the numbers) 8K would have a left crosswind, but flying just under 8K a right crosswind all the way to ground level... Dropping bombs just above 8K, the bombs immediately passed into the opposing wind layer.

It did nothing. Bombs take the motion of the aircraft then after that nothing affects their flight. Wind will not act on them.

I also don't think wind works at all on ground level in Aces High. Wheels and how they interact with the ground, multiengine planes pivoting around a center point, etc... It leaves a lot to be desired.

IMO taking off and landing with ground-level winds in AH is an artificial construct that doesn't reflect the real world. Wind doesn't whip around things like a fluid, in AH.. it just moves everything "thataway" regardless of interactions that should ground them in place, and doesn't really model things like wheels against the runway and so forth very well.

Just look at GV interactions with ground vs friction and you get a sense that this is very much a flight sim. Some day I'd like to see as much fidelity put into ground interaction as we see with the air, but for now I'll enjoy what we have.

[Tupac]

Where I fly out of we always have thermals over the trees at the end of the runway, and I always have to compensate for it. It was 300fpm up the other day, so i was only descending at 200 fpm and I had to use a forward slip to get it down.

It would be kinda cool to have tricky landings.

[Yeager]

I wish the sun would stay at high noon 24-7-365 and no clouds.  Perfect fighting weather.