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airwinger said:
Is that what is taught, now? 30 degrees? Or was that just a "low" pattern because of the clag mentioned in your post? Do you guys still strafe and rocket --- or just Mk76's ... ?
icon_mi_1 do you like my watch, sailor-man ??? :icon_mi_1 )
jboomer said:
*Sigh* Amazing ... 45 degree dives used to be the standard. 60 degrees when you were scared and roaring down the chute with a bad attitude and max - Mk82's under the wing -- good hits, though. That's the nice thing about "real" iron bombs --- they go where you have the pipper -- unlike the Mk76's. Not as "wind" effected. 'Course, you boys can say the same thing about PGM's -- wish we had 'em, back then.
Even so, I did achieve (once) a "Bull's-Eye" CEP, iron sight (what else?) with 6 x Mk76's @ the target in Texas -- west of NAS Chase, can't remember the designation --- I think the guys from Kingsville used it also. Do you only do Weps Dets @ El Centro in the TRACOM nowdays ???
) smiles = good hits)
Singer6 said:
O.K. ... roger that, now the old man's mem's are coming back. Yankee for Chase --- Dixie for K-Ville .... sometimes we shared when the ranges were down for maint, range fires, what have you.
Yankee was right-hand racetrack pattern -- can't remember pattern altitude .... and Dixie ???
Mefesto said:
jboomer said:
O.K. I give up. Did a Google on "CCIP" and all I get back is some stuff in French and "Continuously Computed Impact Point" . Sooooo ..... what is it? Sounds like some kind of HUD/computer generated spot where the bombs are suppose to go on the ground? Or an IP point for when to pickle?? Give me the 25 words or less version --- I don't build 'em -- just fly 'em. I doubt that it's classified -- we are talking the Goshawk, right?
Computer bombing in the TRACOM?? Have you guys no shame .... ???
(have you enough smiles ??
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yep, the goshawk has a RUDIMENTARY CCIP system... rudimentary meaning that no one I've talked to has any idea how it actually calculates the impact point b/c the plane doesn't really "know where it is in the bombing triangle." to give you an idea of how 'good' the CCIP is in the A model... the last bombing hop is done on it (all others with the sight) and that was by far my worst CEP. even when it drops 250 long, and you correct by aiming 300 short, it still dropped 200 long. I've heard the Charlie is a tighter system b/c of the INS/GPS, but I have no firsthand experience with it.
From what the IPs tell us, pretty much all the dumb bombing in the fleet is CCIP/CCRP these days, but those systems actually work.
/more than 25 words
for a visual, here -
some screencap off a game.... essentially, the line is the fall of the bomb and the dot/cross is where the bomb will impact if released at that moment. no idea what game thats off of or what plane it's supposed to represent (or why the idiot has his gear down on a bombing run at only 16 degrees)... very generic
From what the IPs tell us, pretty much all the dumb bombing in the fleet is CCIP/CCRP these days, but those systems actually work.
/more than 25 words
for a visual, here -
some screencap off a game.... essentially, the line is the fall of the bomb and the dot/cross is where the bomb will impact if released at that moment. no idea what game thats off of or what plane it's supposed to represent (or why the idiot has his gear down on a bombing run at only 16 degrees)... very generic
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