Bomber pilots!one step forward!

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Keller

He-111 bombsight seems to be working well with 8 x SC 250kg bombs, more testing required with the 50kg bombs.

I have done 4 bomb runs with the 250's at varying altitudes (4200 - 5500m) and the bombsight was right on target, the one run I did with the 50kg bombs from 4500m fell well short of the target.

See here for a possible explanation: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=33649

[ATAG_Keller]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

See here for a possible explanation: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=33649

Yeah, I saw that Blackdog; that could quite possibly be it.

If that were the case it real life, how was the bombsight programmed to know what bombs were on board?


Another thing I should mention is that I don't feel that the damage from the bombs is high enough. A 250kg bomb should do much more damage than it currently does.

[Blackdog_kt]

The trajectory adjustment was manual in the real bombsight. Ours is automatic to simplify things a bit, otherwise we'd have to enter data from tables according to airspeed, altitude and bomb type.

The advantage of how it's done in the sim is that it's simpler. The advantage of the real bombsights is that an experienced bombardier could probably enter an in-between value to account for different types of bombs on board.

I think the best way to account for this in the sim is to experiment, accept that that we should be going after area targets (factories, airfields, etc, no more hitting a handful of vehicles from 3km) and get a couple of wingmen. The SC 50s don't miss by much, they just drop a couple of clicks down from where the bombsight aims, so it's easy to account for it.

I don't know what happens if you select a bombload with one bomb type only though. Maybe loading only SC50s uses the trajectory adjustment more suitable to them, but i haven't tested this yet.