In the controls indicator there is red, green, and magenta indicator. Anyone have a clue what those go to?
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Hey, Jealosy is still a thing, you know?
Least you can do is show us more pics!!!
Perhaps this should go in our Mertal health thread.
I spent the weekend trying to drop high drag Mk 82s on targets. Never got hits. WTF is 1% damage on AA tank? I scratched the paint?
Im going 500kn at 250ft(i think) and 140 mil depression on the sight set at bombs or rockets.
I wait to last minute and uncage, raise seat and drop. Im very short. It seems nobody what i do, i miss.
It got so annoying that i even tried Unlimited weapons, a first for me. I try to be level but at 500kn the trim seems unresponsive.
I tried dive bombing. Same deal. I suck so bad at this. This is the main job of the Hun.
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Bereft of hope, PaulRix must anxiously await his chance to fly the F-100 in DCS, trapped in the hellscape that is… Hawaii?
Oh no, whatever shall he do, stuck on a business trip to paradise!
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LMAO
Reminds me of my boss. Everytime some important project pops up 'round here he has to go to disaster releif. Yes HAWAII!!! This year Saipan had a disaster and we sent our Systems Admin. He said the hotel us running on generator power so NO A/C.
Suddenly my Boss is NO LONGER DEPLOYABLE. You cant make this stuff up.
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Several planes used to have recognition lights on the underside of their wings. Maybe those Controls are for those lights?
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I would guess it has to do with the different kinds of joystick positions:
- the physical controller position as the sim receives it from DirectInput
- the stick position in the simulated cockpit (could be different due to forces being modeled on the stick, like how the pilot is not strong enough to instantly pull the stick 100% back in the Flaming Cliffs Su-27)
- the trimmed “neutral force” position
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a decent-ish landing after the shrike tutorial… was quite smooth, for my ease of use i found that higher landing speeds were easier 160-170kts … may not be “by the book” but it worked
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I don’t know nuthin’ ‘bout nuthin’, but out of curiosity where did you get that site depression?
If you’re short with those parameters, maybe try 550kt?
Steep, low, or fast = long.
Shallow, high, or slow = short
Ideally, you would have some error sensitivities to go with that site angle.
Something like 1 deg/100ft/10kts is equal to 50ft long/short.
But those weaponeering books were tomes and I’ve never seen a sim provide them, so manual bombing in the sim becomes, “What works for me”.
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Edit: @Deacon211 beat me too it!
If you’re short you are either:
Shallow
Slow
High
If you’re very short, I’d hazard an altimeter setting issue or AGL/MSL issues. That’s the only one that shouldn’t be readily apparent.
If you’re doing high drag or manual release low drag:
Store selector - Bombs
Mode selector - Manual
Sight Selector - Rocket
If you have the sight selector on bomb, that drops the reticle to I believe 65mils for the auto bombing mode, regardless of what you have set on the depression angle dial. Which would explain everything, with the reticle basically twice as elevated as it should be you’d be dropping WAY early, hence very short. Also same with dive bombing, as that would put your reticle again almost twice as high as it should be.
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I was thinking something similar, but I wasn’t able to find anything in the manual. I thought maybe I missed a post/note/etc somewhere that covered it.
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this has the same numbers
500kn
250ft
140mils sight depression
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Great post @tempusmurphy!
That sure looks like it should work.
I see @Maico replying, so he may have already found the solution, but @jenrick brings up some great info.
I would not have expected to need to set the site to rockets to drop bombs.
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This makes sense as it was my guide. Tricker uses the 140 mils and nailes the target precisely.
Thank you all for your replies first of all.
“If you’re doing high drag or manual release low drag:
Store selector - Bombs”
And here is my golden nugett.
“If you have the sight selector on bomb, that drops the reticle to I believe 65mils for the auto bombing mode, regardless of what you have set on the depression angle dial. Which would explain everything”
Thank You!!!
At first I was confusing the Armament Selector with the Sight Selector. But putting the Armament Selector to Rockets results in a no drop.
The Armament selector is easy, put it on bombs or the bombs will not drop.
The Mode Selector I have only used Manual for Bombs.
On the sight Selector, I use Bombs and Rockets (as sugested by Tricker) but mostly Bomb.
I get to the target doing 500kn. I just realized that I need to get the target alt on the mission planner and not my altimeter. So this may be problem one.
Problem two is that I am spending too much time looking at the VVI cos the trim is kinda broke at tree top and 500knots.
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Quick demo.
Our starting parameters we want to be at 500 knots, and 500 AGL is 1196’ MSL. So we need to pickup the speed a hair.
Looks great right? That’s with the 65mil reticle depression from the “Bomb” Sight Selector setting even with 140 mils on the rocket depression setting.
Here’s out impacts via the magic of active pause:
Way short as you said.
Now if we go to Rocket on the Sight Selector with 140 mils dialed in, here’s where our bombs go with a pickel just on the edge of the circle. (Sorry I went after the different bombing circle on my second run). Bombs are impacting right to left.
I’d have to check tacview, but I’ll hazard I was a hair slow or a hair low (or both), but that’s why you don’t just drop 1.
EDIT: Yep per tacview I’m 41’ low and 5 knots fast.
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I mean, it’s usually really hot and humid there this time of year, super crowded, and the surf is trash, even up north. 
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Thanks man. How did you get 500AGL and 1196 MSL? And at that point, what does your Altimeter read during the run?
Are we taking up a collection to throw @PaulRix a pity party?
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I straddle the Minnesota-Wisconsin border near the big lake.
I’ll take it. 
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In the mission editor I can just mouse over where the target is I know that the bombing circle is 696’ MSL, real world, check the mp. So with my altimeter set to match the local QNH (which I know is default weather of 29.92), I just add 500 to that to get my target of 1196’ on my altimeter, and with the marking visible on it, call it 1200’ for what I’m trying to hold. Real world, either you’re weather guy can get you that info I’m assuming, or again, why you drop a string of bombs 
Actually good follow on question: @Deacon211 was target baro pressure something you guys would get for a mission?
The A-4 Sight could probably label it better as “Adjustable Depression, Gyro Gunsight, Auto Bomb,” because it’s definitely not intuitive to put the sight selector on rockets just to get an adjustable reticle.
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