Anyone else having problems with release intervals?

I'm having issues where my A2G symbology breaks every time I release dumb bombs with an interval of 075.

4x Mk82s; QTY 2 MULT 1 INT 075. I assume 075 is 75 feet impact spacing, but the notation on the panel says 'x10' which would imply 750 feet.

At any rate, with this setting the first pair of bombs comes off fine, but after they come off my CCIP symology vanishes and I get the four hashes in my HUD as if I have no more weapons. Despite clearly having two Mk82s still on my wings and still showing on my Stores page.

I've tried cycling master modes, unboxing and boxing the Mk82s, cycling the MA switch, changing the weapon panel settings, and absolutely nothing will bring my CCIP symbology back. Oddly enough, I can still pickle the bombs. I just have no way to aim them any more.

So far this has only happened with an interval of 075. If I do an interval like 005 this doesn't happen. Has anyone else faced this issue?

You need to hold the pickle until all bombs fall off, or weird stuff starts happening.

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If you get the lines on the HUD, switch to SAFE and press the Pickle button again, which will clear them. Then Back to ARM and continue.

And it is X10 feet, so 75 is 750ft distance between bombs.

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Found the problem. I'm holding down the pickle button, but I'm not holding it down long enough because I'm applying past experience from other airframes to the Harrier's weapons system. Every other attack/fighter-attack aircraft has intervals set in x1 increments: Every book I read about flying in the '90s talks about dropping on point targets with 75ft spacing, so I've always used that by default. Well, in the Harrier it's giving me 750ft spacing, and I'm releasing the pickle button just a fraction of a second before the second bomb comes off.

When the sequence is complete, you will have the four diagonal lines in the HUD below the VV. Until then, if you want to complete the sequence, you must hold the Pickle.

That's strange. When I set 075 on the panel, the timing between the two bombs coming off is entirely way too long for 75' spacing--much longer than 75' spacing in the Hornet.

That's strange. When I set 075 on the panel, the timing between the two bombs coming off is entirely way too long for 75' spacing--much longer than 75' spacing in the Hornet.

075 is 75', not 750' spacing.

 

For an 8000' runway. 14 x 1 @ 055, should do it.

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The columns are multiples of 10, not the digits. ie hundreds/tens/units.

 

 

 

There's not much call for a 9,990 foot spacing. :)

 

 

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Have you tested your theory?

 

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Yes you are correct. There is a call for a 9990' spacing.

I miss-read the calculater. :doh:

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The columns are multiples of 10, not the digits. ie hundreds/tens/units.

 

 

 

There's not much call for a 9,990 foot spacing. :)

 

 

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Real manual disagrees:

In AUTO and CCIP bomb

delivery modes, interval (INTV) is the ground

spacing between multiple releases. It may range

from 0 to 9,990 feet. (The last digit is always

truncated to display 0.)

Yes you are correct. There is a call for a 9990' spacing.

I miss-read the calculater. :doh:

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Yep, 010 gives what appears to be 100' spacing:

Haha. I didn't get it either. But maybe, if I line up just right, I can bomb those two buildings 1.5 miles away from each other

 

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This is the most responses I've had to a post, since the last time I FU'd.

Have you tried 14 houses 9990' apart. I still say there's not much call for it.

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I guess they wanted to have at least 1000' spacing (which for something like Mk 83/84 may be reasonable), and once they had 3 digit input anyway, why not go all the way up to 999?

Wiki claims that Mk 84 has 1200 ft lethal blast radius, so you can space them 2400 feet apart and still kill everything between them.

Maybe CBU would need a large, measured, spacing, (not DCS ones).

On the other end of the scale, 14 82s with 005 spacing, used in Dive Toss, sounds like a Gau 8 firing, when released. :)

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Now I'll have to try this later today

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The columns are multiples of 10, not the digits. ie hundreds/tens/units.

 

 

 

There's not much call for a 9,990 foot spacing. :)

 

 

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Well if you want to hit both ends of the groom lake runway with nothing in between... ;)

Good gravy..... the zero is assumed and not present?

So......... 0 - 0 - 1 = 10 feet?

0-1-0 = 100 ft and 1-0-0 = 1000 ft?

I gotta know cuz it's a big deal with Snakeyes.

Good gravy..... the zero is assumed and not present?

 

So......... 0 - 0 - 1 = 10 feet?

 

0-1-0 = 100 ft and 1-0-0 = 1000 ft?

 

I gotta know cuz it's a big deal with Snakeyes.

That is correct.

i.e. For an 8000' runway. Mk 82. 14 x 1 @ 055, (550 ft), should do it.

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