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Originally Posted by ElAurens
I've been trying for some time to come up with a speed/altitude/distance/aircraft combination that works for skip bombing ships and for me it's a bust. this was a tactic that was used and worked, but now you are sentencing those that say they can do it to certain death.
If the stated reason for doing it is true, to stop folks from dropping bombs from parked aircraft, then code the bomb releases not to drop at all with aircraft that are on the ground. End of problem.
Right now I just am getting the feeling that someone else is trying to force their style of game play on me.
It's not making me happy.
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You said it well! Yes, I too got the impression that someone else is trying to force their style of bombing on others - and what is the worst, in an unrealistic way. In recent 4.10m mission I was advised to drop from minimum alt of 500 meters..! For precision bomber, denying 'jabo' bombing this is like denying fighter pilot from shooting closer than 500 meters to target..! 
In reality, bombs were fused for each mission bombing style. Original makers of IL-2 flight sim have made very fine bomb bounce modeling to enable low accuracy bombing styles like ground '
slide bombing' and ship '
bounce bombing' or '
skip bombing'. Now all these
low bombing styles are denied from us because of the 410m safety fuse! No more work for a precison bombing pilot in 4.10m, I have to go back to 4.09m again...
If there are bomb salvo settings, please
let pilots set them like it was done back then! Safety fuse style forced 'idiot bombing' modes are good for AI pilots, but many human pilots like to learn precision bombing the real way - low! So please either
remove that 4.10m safety fuse from the next patch or let people set it with other
bombing salvo settings -quite like in reality..!
Bomb SALVO Fix to Consider for the Next Patch?
The otherways very realistic IL-2 has got from its beginning one great bomber reality flaw: The
bombs are always dropped as forced pairs only. There is no chance to set bomb SALVO for bombing drops individually, one by one, as in reality.
It may seem a laborious job to set all bombers for one by one bomb SALVO. However, there are good news: It already has been done!
There already is a '
Weapon Control Mod' to fix IL-2 bomb SALVO built by ZloyPetrushkO that has proved to work well. I have test flown with it for months and have only good to say about it. The Weapon Controller lets pilot set into IL-2 conf.ini file the SALVO to
drop any number of bombs individually at desired intervals! Now this is like it was done by the bomber crews!
Bomber Pilot's Wish Nr.1
Maybe it could be considered to add this
'Weapon Controller' bomb SALVO fix to next IL-2 patch..? If not yet to 4.10m, maybe the one after it? This is a shy bomber pilot's wish who would like this flight sim keep and improve its fine feeling of reality! More about the 'Weapon Controller' to fix the IL-2 flight sim bomb SALVO on
another thread.
All the Best,
- J. Hartikka -
IL-2 Virtual Bomber Pilot
Finland