DmitriKozlowsky Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 Tried to bomb a linear target with 12 m/s (23 knots) cross-wind. According to Beaufort scale 23 knots wind is 'fresh' to 'strong' breeze. I had planned Snakeeye release from 350-500 feet AGL. But HUD scale and CCIP piper was windblasted completely from HUD making accurate delivery all but impossible. Approach to land on similar relative vector to wind, the VV path marker was also completely off HUD, I had to land with max rudder deflection and banking into wind until TD. The effect seems a bit strong for 23 knot crosswind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
jojo Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 Maximum crosswind for landing is 25kt... Mirage fanatic ! I7-7700K/ MSI RTX3080/ RAM 64 Go/ SSD / TM Hornet stick-Virpil WarBRD + Virpil CM3 Throttle + MFG Crosswind + Reverb G2. Flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/gp/71068385@N02/728Hbi
DmitriKozlowsky Posted December 11, 2020 Author Posted December 11, 2020 On 12/9/2020 at 11:42 AM, Steph21 said: Adjust your attack heading... On a linear target, no more then +-5, before weapon impact become ineffective. Even with, on a offset approach, the CCIP was totally off HUD, making accurate release all but impossible. Lesson learned. Crosswinds at target is important for planning and execution. The attack heading would have to be +180, which kind of zeroed out flightplan, and the effect only became known during the bomb run.
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