Manual Calibration Training Time

[UncleKurt]

Don't know who has the duty, Bigrat??
Any chance of having TA set for manual calibration this evening (Fri. 07-15-11) from 18:00-21:30 CDT? Can pm me on the bbs.
Thanks!
unclkurt
 

[Rolex]

I'll set it up for you.

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[UncleKurt]

 
Thank You!
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[oneway]

I was gonna ask you guys set it up TA for tonight...

Check this out though...

I was offline practicing it and found that if your in the calibration mode with the key pressed, and roll the stick left and right it rolls the bomb site left and right

Rudder does nothing

I found myself in a condition where the bomb sight was in essence tracking or crabbing sideways relative to the field of view when dropped back to normal bomb drop mode in an arena with no wind

I never knew it did this in manual

It is obviously designed to be able wash out wind drift by in essence looking slightly left OR right in an asymmetric sense for the purpose of compensating for cross wind component

For every degree of cross wind, there is combination of heading and bomb sight slew that will result in the cross hairs tracking perfectly straight at a fixed ground target

Fascinating

Moral of the story: DO NOT ROCK YOUR STICK LEFT OR RIGHT when in calibration mode in an arena with Flight Mode Flag Auto Calibrate disabled, and their is no wind, such as tonight

Its puzzling and difficult to recover a straight forward slew once you have induced it.

Oneway

[RTR]

Sounds to me that you are still in calibration mode.

RTR

[Rolex]

That's the way the bombsight works, RTR.

After hitting U key, you slew the sight forward with the stick to pick out a calibration point ahead of the plane. You Zoom in on a spot, then press and hold Y while keeping the crosshair centered on the same spot as you fly towards it. Any crosswind requires you to slew the sight to keep the point centered, so that drift is included in the final calibration after you release the Y key.

[RTR]

cc Rolex, I am  familiar with the manual calibration. Seems I misread the post a bit. I thought  Oneway was under the impression that the bombsite was slewing after calibration.

cheers,
RTR

[Rolex]

Maybe I misread it, too. 

[oneway]

The not so surprising part (given that it does have this capability) is that you can induce the slew when there is no wind by rolling the stick in the cal process

The 64 dollar question is their a key that will re-center the sight though ?

In other words if you have inadvertently introduced a slew when none is required (and you find your sight view crabbing), what if any key will set things back to ZERO ZERO (start from a fresh tablet) ??

Also if you could Rolex, please explain in a little more detail the mechanics of what is happening here.  I would assume that step one in calibrating for wind is to make absolutely sure your plane is crabbed into the wind and on the right track such that its velocity vector will carry it directly over the target. Further I would assume that step two is to then induce a slewed calibration procedure by in essence looking both forward and to one side or the other.

In other words do you have a written procedure for crosswind manual calibration?

Any further information on this rather fascinating puzzle is right up my ally...I am into mathematics as they apply to flight and how the game represents it

 

Oneway

[Edgar]

Hey there Rolex,

Any chance on doing one of your level bomber clinics again like the last one you ran? I would like to get my whole squad involved this time. Maybe if you don't have one scheduled, we can set something up.

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Edgar

[Rolex]

I'm planning one right now - good timing! It will be within the next few weeks. I'll post the information in a few days. This one will include using the manual bombsight for scenarios and a segment on how to score hits with torpedoes!

Check the BBS in a few days.