okay, so what the freeek am I doing wrong? I can't seem to be able to load bombs (or get them to drop) on this thing -.-
After getting familiar with that diva, spending a few hours to get that big old gasket-blowing thing in the air and fly comfortably, I thought "hay, now let's bomb something". Not. I've done a.. well.. standard load-out in the options/plane menu with red tracers and 4x250lbs bombs (it's over max. takeoff limit then). So I tried, and tried, several times, then scoured the forums and found out that the loadouts are STILL not working in stock quick missions (I did the cross-country one).
Okay, next step: FMB. I set up a quick route to bomb the Boulogne harbor, set my loadout done earlier in the plane options, and changed fuel loadout to 90% to bring T/O weight down to below the max.
So I flew to Boulogne - I couldn't change fuel loadout in the preflight screens, and everything was greyed out(again) but in the air, I tried my guns, which had red tracers by now. Good sign, but I still couldn't bomb in any way...
Could someone please give me a step-by-step checklist to get (droppable) bombs on that thing? That would be great, while we wait for a fix...again.
Oh, and what about the bombsight? I figure that (after entering ALT and TAS) you've got to get the target into that little ring mounted on the rails, then drop, right?
P.S.: Also, when throttling down to sink before landing, I somehow freeeked my engines.. they didn't rev up properly anymore (when going to fine pitch for landing approach) and delievered no more power, leading to a crash 200m before the landing strip
. Whats the proper procedure to prevent this? I think the engines got too cool during descent - maybe I should have re-activated carb heaters...
P.P.S.: Do I have to switch on the autopilot for my tail-turret gunner? Or is that done automatically and he becomes active when bandits are near?
08-05-2011, 03:49 PM
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