Go to bombsight view.Open your map, hit U, click on area you plan to bomb.Close map. You'll see the target alt has probably changed from 0. Could be 1k, could be 182 feet, depends on where you clicked on the map.Now pick a spot on the ground, and use your joystick to put the big crosshairs on it.Hold Y, while keeping the crosshairs on this spot using your joystick.The longer you hold Y, and more accurate you are holding the cross-hairs in place, the better accuracy you will have.When you release Y, you'll see your calibrated speed has changed. You can check this against your E6B true air speed. If they match, bombs will be on target. If your calibrate speed is higher or lower, the bombs will go short or long respectively.It's very, very easy once you've done it correctly.If anybody sees me online, and needs a fast lesson in how the manual bombsight works, I'll be more than happy to teach you. Just send a PM to "ndy". This is "how it was" when I first started playing, and it's more satisfying than the easy-mode alternatives
why go through the trouble of doing a search when you can get a lazy bum to do it
the game is concentrated on combat, not on shaking the screen.semp
I don't think manual calibration is on for the FSO's. I think they use the same calibration that the main arenas use. (Which doesn't involve needing input for altitude of target and holding the crosshairs on target)
There must also be a flyable computer available for Nefarious to do FSO. So he doesn't keep talking about it for eight and a half hours on Friday night!
If this thread is refering to the 2nd revision of the Bombing Calibration mechanisim ( the hardest one there was ) then here is a writeup of how it should be done: by Damned Shiva, one my my Squad members:http://members.cox.net/srmalloy/AH/Bombing.htmlhope this helps