He 111 Bombing Sight problem

[SG1_Lud]

In my test in the He-111 I rapidly came to the conclussion that trying to bomb from the bombardier position and being accurate at the same time is highly difficult. Let alone making serious test while we don't have a way to release the bombs while looking thru' the sight. So it is not a comfortable secnery for testers, tos ay the least.

The way in tthat IL2 1046 calculated ballistics, as is known, wasn't taking in account the friction in the air, nor winds, unless you were modded. For that reason one could put the sight to 0 degrees and watch the bombs from release to impact, that is, the horizontal speed of the bombs was nearly constant.

But here we have new variables that affect the values we need for the equations:

Height of the plane (depends on altitude of the plane, altitude of the target) and altitude of the plane (depends on T,P)
TAS (depends on IAS, T, P)
and then GS (depends on TAS, wind)
bomb aerodynamics (depends on an aerodnynamic coeff.)

T: can be established for a test, using the planes that can measure outside temps
P: ? FMB?
wind: ? (dont know if it can be user-programmed in FMB)
bomb friction coeff: ?

Too much efforts for trying to reverse engineering the code, and give some quality observations to the devs. Furthermore, at the current state of the sim I think they have other priorities...


In the meantime, what I did is "learn" by trial and error to bomb from the pilot position. I noted several reference points in the down-view of the pilot for releasing at different altitudes. I use always the same setting in the engine, for a IAS of 250 km/h.

The sweet spot for the He-111 as per the manual (and I could confirm it is well done in the sim) are

Altitude: 3.000 m
IAS = 250 km/H
Corresponds to ATA = 1.0 and RPM = 2200, compressor stage II.