Keep getting issues with Bombline and cues

[Father Cool]

Ok I am getting this more and more now and it's really starting to effect the playability of the tomcat in a bombcat role. Which is what my sub squadron specialises in.

 

A lot of the time now when taking off and transversing to the objective the bombline is tilted off at anything from 40° to 90° rendering the HUD useless and bombing impossible.

 

I have not performed any adverse g manuvers to knock the alignment out. In fact the line is skewed off directly after launch.

 

The bombline is so far off that the CCRP refuses to pickle and in CCIP I don't even get a pipper most of the time.

 

Does anyone else have this issue?

[IronMike]

Are you sure you are aligning properly? Do you have a video/mission/track? Are you using strong winds?

[Father Cool]

Yes I am aligning properly using Jester. I have encountered this on land based take offs and on carrier takeoffs.

 

Don't get me wrong it isn't every time but it is enough to make bombing missions a gamble as to whether you are actually going to even be able to drop ordinance with any real purpose.

 

I'm not sure what the wind settings were last night as the mission wasn't mine and was a MP event, could be wind but I thought that the bombline simply slid across a little in that case not skew off as an angle (the other day the bombline was horizontal at the top of the HUD). However last night as soon as I got airbourne and on course to my IP I switched to A/G to find that the bombline was skewed, starting at just left of centre at the top and sloping out to the left so the bottom of it was off of the HUD, in straight level flight. My wingman also had the same issue. It never changed from this.

 

I thought that I would try to work with it but once at the target I was still able to put my CCRP diamond on the target but the bombs wouldn't release when pickled so I switched to CCIP on the next run, no targeting pipper then appeared in the HUD and I ended up guessing when to release which of course missed the target.

 

This skewed bombline has happened many times now and is frustrating as I am trying to convince our group that the F-14 is capable of more than CAP!

 

Regards

FC

 

P.S I don't have the track, video or mission however I will record all of those next time it happens.

Edited June 10, 2020 by Father Cool

[Oldfox]

Only had this couple of times after probably damaging INS in full aft stick stupid manoeuvres.

 

Could it be possible that catapult launch itself damages it as sometimes we get a pilot blackout at start of launch?

[Father Cool]

Nope. No excessive launch from the catapult (also happens on land based takeoffs) and nice easy climb, uneventful transfer to target area.

 

 

Bombline skewed as soon as I switched A/G on once upto transit altitude and wings level.

[Father Cool]

It's as though the whole thing is not aligned even though I've gone through the process if a fine alignment with Jester.

[Oldfox]

And you are sure you have a "Ready to taxi" from him?

[Father Cool]

Yep.

 

I generally have my mission IP and ST plus Navgrid to set up after he has finished aligning and tapping in his waypoints etc and says Ready to taxi. So consciously wait for him to finish.

[RedeyeStorm]

Is the mission perhaps pre 1986 or so? I have that issue when you fly in a year when gps is not available.

[Father Cool]

No I don't believe so. I have certainly had it happen when in a mission set later than 1986.

 

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[Father Cool]

Ok here is a link to a video of my wingman showing the issue with the bombline.

 

 

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[eatthis]

its happened to me sometimes but not happened for a week now

[IronMike]

Are you guys using any mods? Or did you use any mods previously that could have left orphaned files? None of our testers ever reported anything like this, nor did I ever encounter it, I did some bomb testing just this weekend (for the mk20s) and it worked fine. Maybe the Pilot lantirn mod?