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Title: Bomber Pilots please study this
Post by: Yeager on February 25, 2000, 05:11:00 PM
Right now we can set salvo and delay.  

Minimum delay is 0.05 seconds.  Am I correct when I say that this would result in the release of twenty bombs in a single second?

If this is incorrect, would someone enlighten me?

If it is correct, go load up a B-26 with twenty 100 pounders and set salvo to 20 and delay to 0.05 then simply grab a few and release.

Please post your findings here.  I am curious
if we have a bug here or I am not thinking this through quite well enough.

Thanks,
Yeager

[This message has been edited by Yeager (edited 02-25-2000).]
Title: Bomber Pilots please study this
Post by: juzz on February 25, 2000, 06:12:00 PM
You're right, something is wrong.

20 bombs with a 0.05 second delay certainly take longer than 1 second to release.
Title: Bomber Pilots please study this
Post by: JoeMud on February 25, 2000, 06:18:00 PM
its .50 not .05 cause if you look at the spaces between the bomb craters you can see
Title: Bomber Pilots please study this
Post by: SC-GreyBeard on February 26, 2000, 01:24:00 AM
it's a typo...

it should be .5 seconds.
Thats the fastest I've been able to get em to drop....



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Title: Bomber Pilots please study this
Post by: Sorrow[S=A] on February 26, 2000, 02:20:00 PM
I was hoping we could have a smaller delay for pickle type drops. The .5 is pretty much the delay we have always had, its just that you can set it higher now. We still don't have a command to dump groups of a bombs all at the same time. I also wondered if when we drop a salvo, if the bombs could drop in pairs instead of plop plop plop. while this would give a mild bracket effect it would make accuracy easier, especially after hi alt is reduced.

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Title: Bomber Pilots please study this
Post by: hitech on February 26, 2000, 04:40:00 PM
Assume you all know delay only works if you have a salvo count set?

HiTech
Title: Bomber Pilots please study this
Post by: CavemanJ on February 26, 2000, 07:12:00 PM
yup HT, know that =)
right after takeoff in a B17 w/ 100's loaded (salvo 20 set before takeoff, couldna set 24), hit the pickle about 100ft agl, it takes several seconds to drop the 20 eggs, and if I look outside I can see small gaps between the bomb craters
Title: Bomber Pilots please study this
Post by: Yeager on February 26, 2000, 07:26:00 PM
Cc HT,

had salvo set to 10 (B26, twenty 100pndrs) with delay set to 0.05 and it takes at least a few seconds to salvo the ten 100pndrs.

Yeager