8mar2011

March 8, 2011

Hi guys,

We're going to start at Bishop A22 or A23 in TA working on bombing of any type, but concentrating on dive bombing. Heavy FOC and spawn NE for divebombing training and hitting target. If you feel up to it try salvo 2 and getting all ordinance off in one pass. Logically it's better to get rockets off first and bombs later for accuracy but actually I think you need to do the opposite of that as you cn get pretty low and want bombs to arm. That means bombs first and rockets last.

You could load up ahta08 and go off-line and do some practice before hand or anytime to keep your technique sharp. You can do this for level bombing also. Remember that way NO green + so you get real MA feedback on how you do.

Problems you can encounter involve not enough alt to have bombs arm. That can be prevented from dropping bombs first as mentioned above. Another thing that can effect divebombing and is harder to notice is rudder calibration that is not spot-on. Rembering that we DO NOT use ANY rudder for dive bombing or rocket attacks it's a good idea to double check rudder calibration to make sure it is accurate and centered.

For communication use radio 5 123 but remember to retune radio 5 to 4 for communication in TT.

<OT> fuzeman