The Blenhiem bomber's armament

[JG53Frankyboy]

isnt it so that you cant/need to arm the british bombs.....they have no electrical fuzes like the german ones.

interesting that your bombrelease shortcut did work. last time i checked it ( some time ago i assume) i had to hit the yellow buttons when i switched to bombardier station ( was alone in plane), the shortcut only worked in pilotposition.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by JG53Frankyboy

isnt it so that you cant/need to arm the british bombs.....they have no electrical fuzes like the german ones.

interesting that your bombrelease shortcut did work. last time i checked it ( some time ago i assume) i had to hit the yellow buttons when i switched to bombardier station ( was alone in plane), the shortcut only worked in pilotposition.

I've always armed bombs as a matter of course, as otherwise, why do we have an 'ever ready' option in loadout? Were pins physically removed to arm bombs in flight?

Just checked the joystick shortcut issue offline. The bomb bay doors needed to be opened from the pilot's position using the joystick shortcut, wouldn't work from bomb-aimer position, but the bombs could be dropped by the joystick shortcut from the bomb-aimer's seat.

Needs to be checked online for differences, because of course when we were online, I have no proof that the bombs were dropped at all!

[Blackdog_kt]

What it was like:
When riding in the bombardier's position the bomb release was regarded the same as a "non-pilot seat weapon system" and mapped to mouse initially, just like the guns in the turrets. This confused all of us and it was undocumented, so we were clicking on the actual buttons in the virtual cockpit to drop bombs.
When riding in the pilot's seat, the bomb release trigger set in the options worked normally.

How it works now:
Due to popular demand, since a couple of patches back the control scheme has been changed. Now it works the same way it used to work in IL2: pressing your bomb release key will drop bombs no matter if you are in the pilot's or bombardier's seat.

Just make sure you have the bomb bay doors open and also (mentioned before) that you can actually open the doors in case of mutli-crewing a plane online. All this might seem strange, but i like the way the intricacies of certain systems are modeled: if the lever to open the bay doors was on the pilot's console, the bombardier wouldn't be able to open them himself but would tell the pilot to do it.

In that sense, if i'm solo flying a bomber all controls are available to me. However, if i'm flying with a human crew online, each one has the controls available to his position.

Sure, all this does need to be documented at some point and corrected in some cases (the doors in the Blenheim were spring-loaded and opened under the weight of the bombs once they were released) but in the meantime i'm having fun decoding everything

[ATAG_Dutch]

Heh. Just tried it online with just me in the 'plane and it's the same as offline.

The bomb bay doors have to be opened from the pilot's seat with joystick shortcut, but bombs can be dropped from bomb-aimer's seat using joystick shortcut.

Now I just need someone to hop in my 'plane in either seat to check with multi-crew!

[JG53Frankyboy]

the "toggle bombdoors" command works only for the pilot.But it seems only as long you were not in the bombardier position ?!?!?
the command "open bombdoor" and "close bombdoor" works for pilot AND bombardier.

the best is , ALWAYS use the "open" and "close" command......anyway, lets hope in a far future we will need this command in the Blenheim not anymore. Because the real bombdoors were automaticly opened by the bomb's weight

and thx for the hint about the "release bomb" shortcut blackdog. I didnt was aware of that change in one of the patches (or forgott it because of the low flying time).
Now have to test if it also works for the german bombers.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by JG53Frankyboy

the "toggle bombdoors" command works only for the pilot.But it seems only as long you were not in the bombardier position ?!?!?
the command "open bombdoor" and "close bombdoor" works for pilot AND bombardier.

the best is , ALWAYS use the "open" and "close" command......anyway, lets hope in a far future we will need this command in the Blenheim not anymore. Because the real bombdoors were automaticly opened by the bomb's weight

and thx for the hint about the "release bomb" shortcut blackdog. I didnt was aware of that change in one of the patches (or forgott it because of the low flying time).
Now have to test if it also works for the german bombers.

Now my brain is hurting. (not really!).