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Title: Jet Stream?
Post by: Tilt on August 13, 2012, 07:28:48 AM

How about MA arena setting to add a West to East wind at increments from 27K, 28K, 29K, 30K maintained above 30K.

Objectives

- add bombing accuracy challange to uber high bombing sorties (still toooo easy to hit the pickle barrel
- either we take a westerly/easterly ingress or have to account for cross wind re line of approach.
- some effect on bomb drift?

would have minimal (if not zero) effect on most B17, B24, Lanc bombing activity but add additional challenge to B29 & Mossie XVI stuff at uber altitudes.
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: Tracerfi on August 13, 2012, 07:46:46 AM
Interesting Idea

+1
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: icepac on August 13, 2012, 08:35:10 AM
I just shoot down the milkrunners.........or use a fighter to bomb town centers in front of them.
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: icepac on August 13, 2012, 11:48:03 AM
I understand some guys who never fly above 10k feet would want bombers brought down to them by the game settings instead investing the time of climbing to get them.
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: BERN1 on August 14, 2012, 05:31:39 PM
+1 if they add manual bombsite calibration
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Post by: Traveler on August 16, 2012, 12:45:11 PM
It would never happen, because as the maps are laid out the Wind would only benefit one side. 
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Post by: Ack-Ack on August 17, 2012, 07:00:06 PM
+1 if they add manual bombsite calibration

We used to have it but the masses whined it was too difficult and it was changed to what you see now.

ack-ack
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: Tracerfi on August 17, 2012, 07:03:04 PM
We used to have it but the masses whined it was too difficult and it was changed to what you see now.

ack-ack
i would like to know how to do it the old way
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: Dragon on August 17, 2012, 07:17:34 PM
i would like to know how to do it the old way


It involved setting the bombsite crosshairs on a fixed point an holding it there.  It really wasn't that much harder except you had to be sure your fixed point was the same altitude as the desired target or you had to actually judge when to drop.
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: Tracerfi on August 17, 2012, 07:18:46 PM

It involved setting the bombsite crosshairs on a fixed point an holding it there.  It really wasn't that much harder except you had to be sure your fixed point was the same altitude as the desired target or you had to actually judge when to drop.
ohh i am not good with physics
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: guncrasher on August 18, 2012, 04:24:17 AM
ohh i am not good with physics

or with 14.95 either :).


semp
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: Meatwad on August 18, 2012, 07:12:49 AM
i would like to know how to do it the old way

The old OLD way was that the bombsight was pre-calibrated. You could drop a bomb on an ant from 30,000 feet
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: Tracerfi on August 18, 2012, 07:14:49 AM
or with 14.95 either :).


semp
watch it  :furious
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: Eric19 on August 18, 2012, 04:23:41 PM
you can still do it the other way where you have to put your crosshairs on an object below you and leave them there in the AVA arena
Title: Re: Jet Stream?
Post by: Karnak on August 18, 2012, 05:20:30 PM
The old OLD way was that the bombsight was pre-calibrated. You could drop a bomb on an ant from 30,000 feet
While doing wild maneuvering.