Calibration ?'s

[Virage]

When calibrating for speed:

After holding a spot in the crosshairs, pressing the button causes the crosshairs to move up a by a small amount.  Am I to return the crosshairs to the original spot or hold the spot the crosshairs jump to?  Anyone else notice this?  What do you do?

How long is the button to be held?  The ingame screen says 2 secs, but others mention longer.  

Thnx.

[Duedel]

Yep noticed the same.

[Innominate]

If you're zoomed in all the way, the jump is negligable.

Two seconds is the minimum time for the calibration to take.  Longer is better.

i.e.
You mark a 100foot path, with an error of 10foot, thats a 10% error.  OR, you mark a 1000foot path, with the same 10foot error, and get a 1% error.

[Virage]

What has been working for me...

No wind:
set cruising speed. enter calibration. zoom in.  move crosshairs forward of shadow (ie up) making sure you stay lined with the shadow.  once ahead of shadow for a good distance, start pulling back until relative motion stops.  hold button and hold the spot for at least 10 seconds. (I count to 20 - 25).  

As long as u hold a constant speed,  you can manuever all you want (nothing too drastic) and can calibrate any time during your flight.

Wind:
Same as above up to the point where your crosshairs are ahead of the shadow.  move crosshairs to take out horizontal (sideways) component first.  once all sideways motion has stopped, the ground will be passing under the crosshairs just like the no wind situation.  start pulling the crosshairs back until the forward relative motion stops.  mark and hold for 10 seconds.

With wind, it is important to be as close as possible to your bombing line when calibrating to maintain a constant angle to the wind.


The above is a work in progress.  If anyone has become proficient in calibrating, please post your technique.

[Virage]

Nother tip...

use a friendly ground object to calibrate on, it is easier to hold 1 spot accurately.