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Did hi-drag ripple separation calculation change?


moggel

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How I remember it used to work is if you wanted to distribute, say, four ballutes over 1000 feet you'd set the separation to about 250 (1000 / 4 = 250). But now, it seems if I set that separation I'd be covering only about 250 ft in total. Did this change at some point or do I just remember it wrong? The problem is, with the current mechanic, it's not possible to distribute one's whole bomb load over a long (say 3000 feet) runway as the max "FT" setting for ripple is 999.

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It should be inter-pulse spacing, either bombs or singles. As far as I know there is no explicit mechanism that would prevent selection of 12 RP SGL 999' and getting exactly that. In weird accelerated situations you might not get super even spacing but for a simple level flight where equal spacing means equal time interval it should work.

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On 6/26/2022 at 8:16 PM, Frederf said:

It should be inter-pulse spacing, either bombs or singles. As far as I know there is no explicit mechanism that would prevent selection of 12 RP SGL 999' and getting exactly that. In weird accelerated situations you might not get super even spacing but for a simple level flight where equal spacing means equal time interval it should work.

Ok, that's also how I thought it worked but if I set a spacing of about 300ft my full load seems to be distributed over aproximately that length. Am I the only one seeing this?

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On 6/27/2022 at 8:50 PM, Frederf said:

I did a 12x MK-82AIR drop at 999' spacing and it looks roughly accurate (11x999)/6076= 1.809nm. Maybe it's not elongating the time between releases properly for diving profiles?

F16 12 MK82AIR 999ft.trk 209.95 kB · 1 download

In my tests I've been doing low level ripples, not dives. Did you try with a lower spacing, like 250ft or so?
I'll give the .trk a look. Thanks!


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