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Offline Max

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Bomb & rocket sight
« on: August 17, 2021, 11:16:26 AM »
ISO a plane sight for rockets & bombs. Thanks

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Re: Bomb & rocket sight
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2021, 11:35:25 AM »
You don't really need a particular sight, you need a consistent sight 'picture' with a consistent dive angle. There are some custom sights around but if you use the green bomb cross in training you'll see that a bomb sight by itself is not a fix for missing.


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Re: Bomb & rocket sight
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2021, 05:26:24 PM »
You don't really need a particular sight, you need a consistent sight 'picture' with a consistent dive angle. There are some custom sights around but if you use the green bomb cross in training you'll see that a bomb sight by itself is not a fix for missing.



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Re: Bomb & rocket sight
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2021, 02:49:35 PM »
Max,

 go to the TA and enable the lead calculating gunsite. It will help you get the sight picture.Watch the dive angle and where the green X is located. It will work with both bombs and rockets.


  Hope that helps.


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PS: ctrl tab turns on the LCG.

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Re: Bomb & rocket sight
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2021, 04:55:32 PM »
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Re: Bomb & rocket sight
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2021, 12:12:19 AM »
Start by bombing bomber hangars.  Then hit fighter hangars.   Then graduate to vehicle hangars.
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Re: Bomb & rocket sight
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2021, 08:30:57 AM »
I don't think sights help all that much but here are a couple decent ones.

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Re: Bomb & rocket sight
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2021, 07:03:51 AM »
Start by bombing bomber hangars.  Then hit fighter hangars.   Then graduate to vehicle hangars.

I'm fairly accurate when dive bombing. It's rockets that need tweaking.

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Re: Bomb & rocket sight
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2021, 07:04:28 AM »
I don't think sights help all that much but here are a couple decent ones.

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Re: Bomb & rocket sight
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2021, 04:27:36 PM »
I'm fairly accurate when dive bombing. It's rockets that need tweaking.

Use the green training cross to see the difference in impact points between rockets and bombs. They will only be close in a steep dive since the rockets are powered. Consistency in dive angle and sight picture are important in both and distance matters with rockets especially with shallow dive angles.