Soviet bomb site and target altitude

[[Pb]Death-Merchant]

 I've been trying to improve my bombing accuracy using the Soviet bomb site. It seems that the altitude of the target should be taken into account when setting the altitude in the bomb site. How does one determine the altitude of the target?

[LukeFF]

It's in the briefing. 

[[Pb]Death-Merchant]

7 hours ago, LukeFF said:

It's in the briefing. 

I'm not sure what the briefing is. I fly on MP servers.

[ZachariasX]

17 hours ago, Death-Merchant said:

I'm not sure what the briefing is. I fly on MP servers.

That text on the right hand side of the map.

[[Pb]Death-Merchant]

17 hours ago, ZachariasX said:

That text on the right hand side of the map.

It doesn't seem to be there. I fly on the Coconut Expert server. The is no information about the airfields in the briefing.

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

if you fly on moscow or stalingrad maps the altitude does not really matter as the entire map is only like 0-100m above seal level (so the error is minimal)
If you fly on kuban map and bombing ontop of the biggest mountain you can fly over than you looking at 800m correction but still it will not be far off..

Keep in mind while these sights ingame look very realistic they are also very arcady and extremely accurate - More accurate than modern bombsight and bombs on a B52 or A10 (dumb bombs - unguided)

You can place 44 x 50KG bombs down 1200m of runway from 10,000m Alt While using Auto Turn and only putting in the following target data
Airspeed, True Alt, Wind speed & Direction from 5,000m info
(ALL of the bombs will land on the runway within 10m of the crosshair)

[[Pb]Death-Merchant]

26 minutes ago, =TBAS=Sshadow14 said:

if you fly on moscow or stalingrad maps the altitude does not really matter as the entire map is only like 0-100m above seal level (so the error is minimal)
If you fly on kuban map and bombing ontop of the biggest mountain you can fly over than you looking at 800m correction but still it will not be far off..

Keep in mind while these sights ingame look very realistic they are also very arcady and extremely accurate - More accurate than modern bombsight and bombs on a B52 or A10 (dumb bombs - unguided)

You can place 44 x 50KG bombs down 1200m of runway from 10,000m Alt While using Auto Turn and only putting in the following target data
Airspeed, True Alt, Wind speed & Direction from 5,000m info
(ALL of the bombs will land on the runway within 10m of the crosshair)

 

This makes sense. I had not noticed a problem until I was trying to bomb a factory in the mountains on the Kuban map. My bombs were short on every run, which lead me to believe it was a problem with altitude correction.

 

Thanks for the info. I'll work something out.

[TP_Jacko]

There is a default key combo to set the altimeter to the nearest airfield altitude that may help. The key stroke is something like Alt+A. No 100% sure

[[Pb]Death-Merchant]

35 minutes ago, TP_Jacko said:

There is a default key combo to set the altimeter to the nearest airfield altitude that may help. The key stroke is something like Alt+A. No 100% sure

 

You are correct Left Alt-A is the key stroke. I thought that might help, but it does not affect the bomb sight. I've tested it numerous times but thanks for the input.

 

I'll continue testing different methods.

[JimTM]

This method works for me. Make sure to set your final altitude in the bombsight using the reading from your cockpit altimeter, not the bombsight one.