Flying and Skip Bombing the Blenheim on Cockpit Instruments

[Redroach]

hey, thanks for that offer! I'll try and be online tonight, say from 21:00 CET or so. It would be great if we can figure out what's wrong (though, while I consider my written english to be 'okay', I hope I'm not struggling too much with my spoken english )!
And yeah, flying in formation has always been my dream in aerial combat sims... sadly, I didn't have the opportunity so far, as I always went online as a loner
I hope we can do that, and we can do that often, for some time to come

[ATAG_knuckles]

Trust me you English will be no problem.

However any one have a good link to time zone converters, havings trouuble with the

CET (Central Europe Time) to PST Pacific standard Time (Arizona)

[ATAG_Dutch]

I think that's 1pm for you Knucks.

[Redroach]

hey, was online yesterday, but I didn't feel well, so I called it a day @ approx. 22:30 - sorry
Didn't find you either - but that may not mean too much because I was struggling a bit with getting the proper sound volume balance with TS3 on.
But I tested at least one more thing: I tried a 11s delay with the No.28 fuzes and got the same results as before. 4 little 'didn't explode' craters. However, I noticed a strange thing: Some Blennys, parked approx. 50m away, were burning! I don't know why, maybe some Axis plane got in and strafed them while I wasn't watching, but this leads me to a more generalized question:
What is the result when my bombs hit plain grasslands, like I did describe in here. Sure, there should be an explosion (which I have or have not missed every time...), but is there some kind of smoke column afterwards, even if somewhat limited, time-wise? There should be, right? If that is NOT the case, then my bombs probably have been working the entire time and I just didn't see/recognize that...
On the other hand: Bombs DO throw up dirt and smoke on their own, so this SHOULD, by all means, be visible :-/
I'm getting desperate >.<. All I want to do is delivering a pathetic 1000lbs payload so that my foes shall snuff it

[ATAG_Dutch]

You should see a small puff of dust as the bomb hits, then a larger cloud of smoke when the bomb explodes.

This vid will give you an idea, there is a good view of Tonka hitting the fuel depot on ATAG with me filming in the turret towards the end of the vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww3sIT-uT_c

[ATAG_knuckles]

Roach

I was on twice yesterday, saw you on coms but you were listed as "Mike Muted"

we will just keep trying to hook up

[Redroach]

yes, as said, I needed to get TS sorted out and I went to bed rather early due to me not feeling well - sorry!

I just did a few flights a few minutes ago, and I'm having a break right now, but still nothing. I thought I could hear a single explosion behind me, after dropping bombs - but, still, no smoke columns when I turned around to investigate

/Cry, it works with everybody, it can't be that hard to get those fricken' bombs to explode, can it? Maybe blackdog_kt can help! Show yourself!

No, really, It's probably best, as you, knuckles, suggested, to have you watching if my bombs are actually dropping and if they'tre actually exploding, and go from there.

P.S.: I tried to record a bomb drop on ATAG (where I always am). Am I right that you can't even switch positions/have an outside view on video playback, too?

P.P.S.: A little OT: I'm a realism geek and therefore, I rejoiced when AI radio commands were finally introduced in the current beta patch (about time, btw; without that, CoD was just a flight demonstrator). Now, I always request permission to take off, only to be told: "Takeoff_denied"[sic]. Do I need to do something special there or wait for something? or is it just another bug?

[ATAG_knuckles]

First thing: dont get discouraged we have ALL had issues at times: they are all fixable, just takes time to sort it all out

Views: in multiplayer if i am correct, only cockpit view in playback: off line play you have get all the various views

Radio/Coms: they have never worked, something we hope to have fixed eventually

[Redroach]

Big, fat thanks @ you, knuckles, for providing "external view" to double check on my issue! It seems my bombs did actually work from the start, but I went from wrong assumptions, which, on full-real servers, obviously DO sometimes happen (see other threads about the matter) .
S!

Edit:
Oh, while I just remember it: A follow-up on "bombing on plain countryside" would be: What about bombing airfield runways? Are the craters which you blow into mostly "plain soil" (i.e. on the enemy's runway) sufficient to take that runway out for some period of time? Or is it pointless?
Maybe this should be tested as well

[ATAG_Dutch]

Redroach, you have to come along and join the online Blenheim crews.

Unfortunately everyone's a little 'down' at the moment (except Knuckles, he just keeps on going!), but the ATAG chaps have a very strong Blenheim fanbase, so we will most definately get together soon.

I look forward to it, but my German is definately far worse than your English!! Look forward to it!