[/quote]That my point BG...there is drift og mebbe 1/4 of a large field at 25k...the REAL problem is the damn plane getting pushed sideways whilst ya on autopilot thinkin ya goin straight[/quote]
bj229r, you
continue to be clueless. Yes, in a crosswind, your ground track and the course your plane's compass indicates
are going to be different. What you can't seem to understand is that what you do is to turn your plane
into the wind so that part of your plane's velocity cancels the crosswind out. So if you're at 20,000 feet making 220 TAS, and your target is due south of you, you fly an
indicated course of 188°; with the crosswind, your
ground track is on a heading of 180°, straight for your target.
But does the plane drift matter when u are still centering ur cross hairs on Hangars abou to drop..???
Yes and no, BGB. If you have an unadjusted crosswind, you'll see a sideways drift of your spot point while you're calibrating, and you have to halt the sideways drift as well as the fore-and-aft motion of the crosshairs while you calibrate.
[/quote]Im saying ..do you guys still try to put cross hairs directly on trget when u clik the boms away??? [/quote]
When you calibrate your bombsight, HiTech has set it up so that an accurate calibration automatically sets both the trail and drift correctly.
So, in answer to your question, yes; if you've calibrated your sight accurately, the bomb drift
is accounted for, so where the crosshairs sit is where the bomb pattern will center.
