Bombing Problems

[vega]

I have found that with some practice I can correctly calibrate the bombsight and sometimes, not always, hit the target.  But when you throw a wind in there, say at 15,500 ft......there does not seem to be any way to correct for that and the bombs will be off, calibration or not.

I would say the difficulites of using the new bombsight, the way it is now, outweigh the gameplay issue of "fun" and therefore the whole thing seems like a detriment to the overall game.  

So you have 5 or 6 guys who finally figure out how to bomb 80% of the time?  Who cares?  3000 other guys are unhappy and not having fun like they used to.  That seems to be the case at this point.

[ET]

I agree 100%. The FUN is gone.

[Pongo]

Finally?
I was succesfully single boming acks from 10k agl with my second sorti..
there is something here that people dont understand....hmmmm

[Shiva]

I have found that with some practice I can correctly calibrate the bombsight and sometimes, not always, hit the target. But when you throw a wind in there, say at 15,500 ft......there does not seem to be any way to correct for that and the bombs will be off, calibration or not.

Well, you see, there's a trick. Your calibration control lets you move your crosshairs left and right as well as up and down. If you've got a crosswind that you're dropping from, the spot on the ground that you have to keep centered will drift off the centerline as well as move down; you need to keep it centered both ways. Where this will screw you the most often is when you don't get a good lineup before you calibrate and have to change your course more than about five degrees to line up on target -- if you calibrate with a different relative wind angle than you have when you drop, it will throw you off.