Need bombing wind direction help

[Shiloh17]

HI, in career mode, I can hit targets and am proficient at bombing from any altitude, as well as on a few multiplayer servers.

I use Spiff's bombsight wind calculator and it works well.

 

I want to bomb on the Finnish server and am running into a little confusion.

This weather report is from the Finnish website, related to the server.

 

Current weather:
Season: Summer
Clouds: Light Level(m): 1978 Height(m): 691
Temperature: 24
Wind directions and speed:
0m: from: 24 to: 204 speed: 0m/s
500m: from: 14 to: 194 speed: 2m/s
1000m: from: 19 to: 199 speed: 6m/s
2000m: from: 26 to: 206 speed: 8m/s
5000m: from: 29 to: 209 speed: 13m/s

 

If the wind is variable 180 degrees, what is the correct input into the calculator?

I tried to find an answer but couldn't so thanks for replies.

 

[354thFG_Leifr]

Use the drop-down tab for wind strength and speed, it is found in the bombsight view and is far more reliable.

[AndyJWest]

I don't think that IL-2 GB can model variable winds currently, and strong high-altitude wind being that variable seems rather implausible anyway, unless within a humongous cyclone. More likely, they are saying that the wind is coming from the direction of 24° and blowing towards 204° etc. 

 

It really shouldn't be necessary to have to explain it like that, since meteorological reports always (as far as I'm aware) state the direction the wind is coming from. For some reason though, flight sim developers seem to have decided that mission editors work the other way, and have you set the direction the wind is blowing to, leading to all sorts of confusions. The server  is trying to be helpful, but evidently hasn't quite succeeded.

[56RAF_Stickz]

6 hours ago, Shiloh17 said:

HI, in career mode, I can hit targets and am proficient at bombing from any altitude, as well as on a few multiplayer servers.

I use Spiff's bombsight wind calculator and it works well.

 

I want to bomb on the Finnish server and am running into a little confusion.

This weather report is from the Finnish website, related to the server.

 

Current weather:
Season: Summer
Clouds: Light Level(m): 1978 Height(m): 691
Temperature: 24
Wind directions and speed:
0m: from: 24 to: 204 speed: 0m/s
500m: from: 14 to: 194 speed: 2m/s
1000m: from: 19 to: 199 speed: 6m/s
2000m: from: 26 to: 206 speed: 8m/s
5000m: from: 29 to: 209 speed: 13m/s

 

If the wind is variable 180 degrees, what is the correct input into the calculator?

I tried to find an answer but couldn't so thanks for replies.

 

if I understand you correctly from the 180degree comment you make: it is giving you a single heading, ie at 1000m wind is blowing from 19degrees. This wind is going towards 199degrees. A single wind direction but giving you to and from direction. That is where the 180degree variation come from. Cannot remember now which the bombsight uses but if recalling correctly it uses the "to(wards)" direction (so in this case 199degree).

It is not telling you that the wind direction is variable. It is coming from 19deg and blowing towards 199deg. So if your aircraft is heading 199deg you have a tail wind.

[JimTM]

1 hour ago, 56RAF_Stickz said:

if I understand you correctly from the 180degree comment you make: it is giving you a single heading, ie at 1000m wind is blowing from 19degrees. This wind is going towards 199degrees. A single wind direction but giving you to and from direction. That is where the 180degree variation come from. Cannot remember now which the bombsight uses but if recalling correctly it uses the "to(wards)" direction (so in this case 199degree).

It is not telling you that the wind direction is variable. It is coming from 19deg and blowing towards 199deg. So if your aircraft is heading 199deg you have a tail wind.

 

The bombsight gives the "from" direction (in your case, 19 degrees).

[Shiloh17]

3 hours ago, 56RAF_Stickz said:

if I understand you correctly from the 180degree comment you make: it is giving you a single heading, ie at 1000m wind is blowing from 19degrees. This wind is going towards 199degrees. A single wind direction but giving you to and from direction. That is where the 180degree variation come from. Cannot remember now which the bombsight uses but if recalling correctly it uses the "to(wards)" direction (so in this case 199degree).

It is not telling you that the wind direction is variable. It is coming from 19deg and blowing towards 199deg. So if your aircraft is heading 199deg you have a tail wind.

 

O.K. I see. Thanks for the answer. I am just waiting for plane set 2 so I can use the Havoc, and didn't want to waste a flight on a missed bomb drop.

[354thFG_Leifr]

22 hours ago, Leifr said:

Use the drop-down tab for wind strength and speed, it is found in the bombsight view and is far more reliable.

 

There is no requirement for nuance or understanding the mission description in IL2 when flying bombers. Simply open up the bombsight view and use the tab menu at the top of the screen. You are presented with a set of non-moving 100% accurate wind direction and wind strength measurements. ?

Edited October 17, 2021 by Leifr

[DD_Crash]

This is for the Pe-2 but its the same bombsight