I having two issues with dropping bombs in sim battles.
I am a complete novice in sim and bombing so be patient with me.
First, when ever I try to drop a bomb series, I get an error message saying “command blocked active weapons selector”. It will work if I deselect the weapon but what kind of sense does that make? You deselect the weapon to use said weapon? I’m having a hard time tracking that.
Second, CCIP stands for “constantly calculated impact point” but I have a very hard time finding the CCIP in the aircraft. All I seem to get is CCRP and a watered down version of CCRP, and both seem to drop automatically by holding the weapon release until over the calculated impact point.
The Buccaneer S.2 is a great example. In this video, the CC uses what I consider true CCIP to drop bombs on these ships (I queued the video for the exact part of the video) but for the life of me I cannot find out how to do it, all I get is the what I would consider CCRP where you designate the target, where the green dot is fixed (not moving as in the video), and you hold the button while the computer drops the bomb.
What am I missing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I’m about to bust a spring.
Some airplanes have terrible CCIP that need you to take a steep angle to be able to fully see it on your gunner sight.
By the way, talking about sight you should also bind a key for changing the sight mode and set it to bombs, usually it’s automatic by the moment you select a bomb.
Regarding the “command blocked active weapons selector” either is your angle, you most of the time need to be at level with the horizon and lower than 1.0 mach, when using multiple bombs set a key to ripple quantity with that you’ll be able to drop a lot of bombs in one run,
If none of these worked try to set a keybind for selecting secondary weapons if I’m not wrong and check if you don’t have CCRP enabled because it fully locks your ability to drop bombs at will, but if your plane have CCRP you could try it using as a method to boom and zoom bases using the map-built laser designator in a ground target.
Yes I saw the footage, thing is the CCIP doesn’t work like that for every airplane, using the F-4EJ ADTW for example, I always need to get higher then I point my nose down to be able to see the CCIP,
In the Su-39 I don’t because, either is weapon, which I believe it’s or the design of the sight, where in the F-4EJ ADTW is obstructed by the huge panels and in the Su-39 is easier to see what’s ahead.
Regarding your problem if you have any footage I could try to help but I’m not in-game at the moment to try to replicate and send you a answer.
Using “drop bomb” or “bomb series” and “weapon selection” with “ripple quantity”
It use to bug when you used them toegether, so they added a block. Disable weapon selection and bomb series will work or you can swap to using ripple quantities with weapon selection release multiple bombs
CCIP in game is just an aiming point, on aircraft like the Buc S2 this is a small dot in the HUD, on more advanced aircraft like the Harrier Gr7 or Typhoon, you’ll get a lot more symbology.
CCRP will automatically release the bomb at the right time when you set the aircraft up properly to do so
It also sounds like you are somehow accidentally entering CCRP instead of staying in CCIP
Here is a guide for how to use CCRP and also includes the settings needed to exit it as well
If Id hazard a guess, you need to change your cockpit sight mode to select “bombs” and make sure it isnt “bombs (auto)” That will give you the symbology seen in that video
Also, to double check, you arent running drag/retarded bombs right?
I may have a few other questions but I wanted to come on and say thank you for the help.
I’m working through a few other things but your response helped tremendously.
My main problem was not realizing that “not selecting” bombs was by default CCIP. In the status window/bar in the top righthand corner of the screen, I thought a curser had to be next to bombs for it to work… just like missiles.
Once I realized that, I started making worlds of progress. I’m working may way through a few things and I may have a few more questions, I hope you will be gracious enough to help me some more.
You should still get CCIP with bombs selected (>bombs) provided you do not have a bomb target selected: either selected on the map, selected by toggling the pre-defined targets, or selected by putting the sight over the target and marking it. If you have a target selected you get CCRP, even if you’ve already bombed that target. You need to deselect ‘mission bombing target’ by setting a key for that. If you were always getting CCRP when you selected bombs it seems likely you had a target selected.
I’d strongly suggest to not use [Drop bomb] and [Drop Bomb Series], but instead switch to using the weapons selector ([Switch secondary weapons]) and use [Fire secondary weapon]. For this you will need [Switch secondary weapon] and to set ripple quantity, [Secondary weapon riple quantity].
I’ve always used the switch button but never tried the fire button.
I’ll do it today and see if it works for me.
The main reason I was hesitant about doing it is because I use the seeker button binded to the fire missile button and I was concerned it would interfere firing my other weapons.
