Author Topic: Bombing calibration....  (Read 117 times)

Offline AcId

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Bombing calibration....
« on: July 24, 2002, 11:07:05 AM »
Has anyone else noticed this...

I've noticed that when calibrating if I move the sight forward a bit and hold a spot on the terrain and hold down my cal-key (y) until the spot on the terrain passes under me (shadow(s) of my plane(s) go buy) then let go of y (roughly 4-6 seconds) I get better results that are verified by the divebomb sight in offline/TA mode.

It seems that picking a spot and calibrating as it goes under the aircraft produces better results. I've tried holding for longer periods of time but only have had success with the aformentioned method.

Offline AKIron

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Bombing calibration....
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2002, 04:28:51 PM »
I tried marking in front and behind, the only thing that I found to give me consistently good calibrations is to hold the mark key for a full minute.
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Offline Yeager

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Bombing calibration....
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2002, 06:12:55 PM »
One problem Ive encountered is the differing target altitude values.  Thats is to say, with each click of the mouse pointer directly over a field icon (without moving the pointer) I frequently get different altitude values.  

Although Ive had great luck bombing generally, last night I was set up on a field with 3 B17s at 23k and calibrated excellently, to the best of my knowledge, but the damned sticks landed a good 1000 yrds past the targets.......
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