British gunsight range and wingspan setting

[Angry_Kitten]

Well I once posited it would be nice to have the software automatically update the british gunsights for range and wingspan when the mission opens up. 

 

QMB was taking a LONG time to load, was using fancier clouds, weather, 1830 flight time,  clouds actually look better at this time of day.. 

 

Anyhoos, as it was loading very slowly i got to read all of the messages from the game.. and  it IS now updating the gunsights with range data and wingspan. 

 

The issues for bug

 

In each instance, i used 260 meters convergence settings in QMB..   in cockpit the message is "setting to 250 yards"

 

        Most definitely a bad conversion factor in there...   260 meters yields 283 yards

 

And wingspan is wrong as well.   It sets it to fighter wingspan, despite flying against a c47.   And it only actuallys says the wingspan when flying the Hurricane

[LukeFF]

3 hours ago, pocketshaver said:

The issues for bug

 

There is no bug, because there is no conversion being done before the mission loads. The default range and wingspan for the British gunsights is 250 yards and about 32 feet wingspan, all the time, every time. I know that to be the case, because the only input I use to adjust range and wingspan is a hat switch on my joystick - i.e., there are no analog axes changing things as soon as I start the mission.

 

3 hours ago, pocketshaver said:

it IS now updating the gunsights with range data and wingspan. 

 

No, sorry, that is just not the case. Set your convergence to 1000 meters before generating a mission, and you'll see that the range on the sight is still 250 yards when the mission starts.

 

Your theory about wingspan being updated during mission generation is also easily disprovable using similar methods.

Edited February 5, 2022 by LukeFF