Heading indication while in bombsight

[colmbo]

Could we get aircraft heading added to the info displayed while in the bombsight?  Left side above/under altitude would be as good a place as any.

[Rogue9Volt]

That would be handy...

[Sabre]

+1

[Arlo]

Could we get aircraft heading added to the info displayed while in the bombsight?  Left side above/under altitude would be as good a place as any.

This sounds practical and doesn't seem like a coding nightmare. Refreshing in wish-list-ville.

 

[Tinkles]

+1

[colmbo]

doesn't seem like a coding nightmare.

The code already knows which direction we're pointing, shouldn't be hard to display that info.  Real world the bombardier had heading, airspeed and altitude available to him…we already have two of the three.

[wpeters]

+1

[JimmyD3]

+1

[gyrene81]

+1

[DubiousKB]

+1

One would think this would be rather easy to include as an additional line of text displaying in bomb site. Great idea with minimal (from what I understand) programming.

Keep the good idea's rolling so we can put out the flamers! 

[bustr]

I suspect the OP knows he is asking Hitech to give him the equivalent of a lead computing gunsight. One that won't be interfered with by Internet Lag or poor connection quality.

You can pull up the clipboard while looking through the cross hair.

Since you want an aimbot, ask for a timer along with a 360 heading read out. Without wind, you will be dropping an almost JDAM. They didn't have laser marking in ww2. First they had to evolve radar aided bombing through overcast and night missions.

Below is a photo through a Norden eyepiece. Your red HUD readout takes the place of the manual calibration dials. I could not find anything resembling a compass in or on the Norden. Maybe if Hitech upgrades us to radar bombing from the end of ww2. The B25H used radar controlled sighting for it's 75mm by 1945 to hit shipping at 4000yds.

By the way, the cross hairs were made with real human hair. Just like some rifle scopes cross hairs back then were made with Black Widow silk.

Poor buggers didn't even get a heads up display like Hitech gives us.

[colmbo]

I suspect the OP knows he is asking Hitech to give him the equivalent of a lead computing gunsight.

I'm asking to have the same information available that was available to a bombardier during WWII.  Right next to the bombardiers seat in all the WWII bombers I've been in were 3 instruments;  airspeed indicator, altimeter and heading indicator.

If those instruments work in AH at the bombardier position (I know in the B26 they do not) that would be fine, it doesn't have to be "in" the bombsight….I just don't want to have to pop to the pilot position to get a peek at my heading.

[bustr]

I kept looking for bombardier position photos just for compass and other instruments. I remember reading interviews were the old guys wouldn't let things get in their way. The would mount compass and other instruments if they could. Stop watches were common.

This is the Russian reticle Hitech should have in the Tu2 and why I can understand additional reticle structures in the generic bombsight reticle.



We already beat the chart below in our game. Almost JDAM at all alts. So now you have the (.dt) command, and you are asking to be able to drop your loads in a shot glass. And we have GV main gun single shot commander mode sure shot killing of airplanes. I have squad mates who sink carriers 9 out of 10 times first pass as it is without additional input. And I watch players hit everything they drop bombs on closing down the fields I'm defending like clock work.  At what point do we all phone it in and find another game? How easy do you want Hitech to dumb this game down?


 

[colmbo]

How easy do you want Hitech to dumb this game down?
 

Having some urine with your Wheaties?

I didn't ask for anything to be dumbed down. The game is way to easy as it is.  Again, all I asked for is what was available to the bombardier real life.

[bozon]

As long as the heading displayed is the exact same heading as read from the compass (i.e. not the true ground heading in a cross wind) I think this is a harmless request.