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B25/B29 Bombsights Not Working Properly - Lozza - 27.01.2009

I have read the manual I found in this thread:

viewtopic.php?t=11467

But there is nothing relating to this I can find.

I set the altitude and speed correctly, center the target and activate "bombsight automation," but then my bombs release when I'm nowhere near the target, and the targeting reticle moves downwards far too quickly.

I know there's something not right because it all works perfectly in the He 111.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.

- seaniebeag1983 - 27.01.2009

could your problem be converting between feet and metres?? The speed bar can help you with this, map a key to toggle it in control menu.

- Lozza - 27.01.2009

Just checked, and that's exactly what it is! I can't believe I didn't notice that.. Tongue Thanks.

Is there a way to change the speed bar or bombsight to meters or feet, so they both display the same thing? Or will I have to use the instruments in the plane?

- INDY(tus) - 28.01.2009

It is possible to switch speeed bar between meters|kmph|deg -> feet|knots|deg -> feet|mph|deg -> turned off but as I understand the accuracy of american bombsight is too lower than russian/german/japan
Let me explain:
The step of the american bombsight height is 50 feet(15 meters) - the others only 10 meters
The step of the american bombsight speed is 10 mph(16kmph) - the others only 10 kmph

So to perform an acurate bombs drop you have to fly very close to table given data

And also the step of altimeter indicator on the speed bar is 50 feet and if the fly at 349 feet it wil show us only 300 - so the mistake near 15 meters - and it is fatal for extremely accurate droppings e.g. to kill a single tank from the 5'000 meters altitude and the height of the tank is about 243 meters ober the sea level.

Cheers. Everything needed to be tested.

Edit: Checked for mistakes.

- Quelty - 28.01.2009

The hotkeys mod in conjunction with the HUDconfig mod allows you to have much closer gradients, as little as 1 foot, check this thread out;

viewtopic.php?t=10234&highlight=hotkeys


Cheers

Quelty

- INDY(tus) - 28.01.2009

Quelty Wrote:The hotkeys mod in conjunction with the HUDconfig mod allows you to have much closer gradients, as little as 1 foot, check this thread out;

viewtopic.php?t=10234&highlight=hotkeys


Cheers

Quelty
Yep, I know... but this doesn't affect to height and speed increments of bombsights.
So to hit the single tank you need to fly as close as possible to some parameters to miniize an error.