A few weeks ago I stared practising CCIP bombing. For startes I selected 82 20LD2, 82 30DB2 and 82 45DB2 sleds from the Battle Book.
Up untill now I used one of the real loadouts (just modified a little so I have 12 Mk-82 bombs) for the practice mission, but still it gave me just 6 passes, then back to airfield for the rearming and back again to targets area which is very time consuming...
I know that there is a training mode in the A10C that I could use, but I have a few question concerning it:
- In 'CCIP bombing training' thread I found a post Eddie in which you wrote about using training mode especially when combined with training version of the bombs (BDU-33 was mentioned). Could you please elaborate more on that?
- when the pickle happens in the training mode is it recorded so that I can check all the parameters in the ACMI later on?
Another question I have is about Aim-Off Point and Distance. So far I noticed that the steeper the dive angle the shorted the Aim-Off Distance is. So is there any ROT on visually find the Aim-Off Point before starting roll in? I am asking about it becaouse I am not sure if it is better to focus on the 80 + dive angle rule or looking at the Aim-Off Point during the roll-in, or both of them? Or maybe I am just trying to much to focus on the deatails here and rather than that should practice, practice and eventually all of it will resolve by itself?
There are so many variables during the bombing run that I suppose that doing it perfect is rather exception than a rule so my question is what are the permissible differences during the training, in hight, speed and dive angle parameters for the given delivery to be considered a good one?
Sorry if any of those questions seem to be silly, but all of this is new to me and I am just trying to find a way to master it. Thanks in advance for the answers.