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08-05-2011, 03:04 PM
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actually, the Blenheims CEM is of that kind i wish EVERY developer would have to fly it for ,lets say, 10 missions (with a groundstart and at least one change from fine to coarse pitch every mission
 ) and for every mission he blews his engines he would get 10% less salary in that month !perhaps that would let them think again...................... With this being the only british bombcarrier - i dont see good things for any comming online "war" with the BoB scenario . The whole radial's CEM have to be looked in again IMHO. 
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08-05-2011, 03:49 PM
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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? Last edited by Redroach; 08-05-2011 at 03:51 PM.
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#43
08-05-2011, 03:57 PM
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Spending 5 to 10 minutes RAMP start just to see engine failure right after T/O unless you work exactly along a thin red line of procedures really doesn't make you feel like you just played a combat sim turning off the computer.
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#44
08-05-2011, 04:10 PM
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If it were so easy to overheat engines with the rads open while taxiing the RAF would never have got off the ground as a squadron! Plus the manual instruction (in Klem's pdf) wouldn't say to takeoff with rads closed. 56RAF_phoenix
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#45
08-05-2011, 04:19 PM
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Redroach - it's good to see a few of us are trying to get this right!
To state the obvious, you are arming the bombs and opening the bombay doors? 56RAF_phoenix
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#46
08-05-2011, 04:20 PM
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Gp to FMB
select any map select an blenheim Than selesct the bombloads and save these bombloads as "2x500" and "4x250". Than these bombloads will apear in the armamentchoices in the singlemissions. Keep in mind that the shortcutcommand "release bombs" does not work from bombardierposition, only from pilotposition. From bombardierposition you have to click the small yellowbuttons left on the desk with the mouse ..... You need an open bombdoorcommand shortcut. You will not find a lever in the cockpit because the real blenheims doors were springopened by the weight of its bombs.... You have the choice between salvo (all bombs) and single. The bombsfuzes are alwasy armed. Yo not much to set in comparison to german bombers. Good luck!
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#47
08-05-2011, 04:24 PM
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And yes , the gunners are shooting with Ai.
I personaly dont bother anymore with shooting manually...... And online delete all tracer rounds from my gunners, nice surprise for human flown interceptors
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#48
08-05-2011, 04:48 PM
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ah dummnit... thanks so far, guys! Why didn't I think about the bomb-bay doors? I knew they were bungee-operated in real life, but I've already looked up here and read about the necessity to open b.b.doors.
And thanks for the procedure! Now if you tell me how exactly the bombsight works, I'll write up my personal take-off procedure
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#49
08-05-2011, 06:25 PM
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 and open flaps when temp goes above 200.
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#50
08-05-2011, 06:33 PM
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Can't help with the bomb sight I'm afraid.
On another topic, for the first time I took a Blenheim up to 10k ft from parked... it took forever climbing at +2-3 boost and about 400 ft/min. But more seriously, I'm convinced the Blen in CloD has no auto-rich mixture with altitude. When I got to 10k+, I started getting the shakes - just like the Hurri before it was fixed. Also, as I got higher it was harder and harder to maintain engine power and airspeed. 56RAF_phoenix
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