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Originally Posted by Jaws2002
First quick and dirty bomb drop with ju88 straight after airspawn, from 2000m, I got the salvo about ten meters from the aiming point. 
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That's very encouraging, however to really test it you have to go a bit higher.
The main bug in the bombsight was that it didn't adjust for the trail effect in bombing: over time, bombs lose their forward speed due to air friction and increase their downward speed due to gravity.
This is almost unnoticeable at low altitudes (that's why many people could bomb even with the bugged bombsights from 1-2km), but gets more pronounced the higher you go (bombs end up going almost straight down, so they lag behind the target if dropped from high alt)
If you really want to be sure, spawn a loaded Ju88 in the France free flight mission, set it up on autopilot with a slight climb and engage some time acceleration until you get to 4-5km of altitude, level out, pick an arbitrary target point and see how it goes. I'll also be testing this way soon.
P.S. I'm not sure, but i think that in the real Lofte one needs to input IAS and altitude (the bombsight would use them to calculate TAS automatically). In any case, it pays to test both ways: one run with IAS and one with TAS inputs in the bombsight, just to be sure.