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How to: Bomb sleds

BlueRidgeDX

This document is a formatted version of the instructions posted by BlueRidgeDX in this thread. All credits go to him and the 476th vFG. I suggest you read at least posts #1, #36 and the rest of #103 not included here. Additionally, watch the videos demonstrating different delivery profiles by Eddie which are available here.

Assuming a standard box pattern at a conventional target range, you will have a downwind, base, and final leg, just like a traffic pattern at the airport. Let's assume we're flying a 30 DB, dropping two MK-82s in Ripple Single (look in the Battle Book for the "82 30DB2" sled). Let's also assume that we're making a left hand pattern with an attack heading of 270. Before we do any bombing, we need to make sure that the DSMS is properly configured.

1. Create a new profile and call it "82 30DB2". Set the Mode to Ripple Single, enter a Quantity of 2, and ensure that the spacing is set to 75 ft. Set the DTOF to 6.7 seconds. This will enable the DRC symbology. Set the SEM to CLM. This will affect the MRS symbology. Set the MIN ALT to 1,000 ft. This also affects the MRS symbology. 2. Fly the base leg on 360 at 5100 AGL and about 280 KIAS. Remember to add target elevation in order to convert to MSL. Pro Tip: It's always better to use HOT elevation with the actual target elevation than to rely on the DTSAS Auto Elevation function (often referred to as "DTS"). 3. Since this is training and you're trying to establish and validate cockpit references, go ahead and setup a steerpoint that is offset 090 from the target at 1.2 NM. This will allow help you maintain a consistent starting position, which is ESSENTIAL for making any subsequent corrections. Do not, under any circumstances use this steerpoint as a reference for when to roll-in. It's only there to make sure that you're flying 360 at the correct Base Distance. 4. Watch the target as is moves aft on the canopy. Note how far above the canopy rail it is. Note its position against the canopy bow. 5. When the target is about a fist width aft of the canopy bow, execute a maximum performance roll to left. Look out the top of the canopy, and find the AOP. When your lift vector on the AOP, "check" the roll and immediately begin a 3g pull toward the AOP. 6. As the AOP nears the top of the HUD glass, begin to reduce load factor. Remember that the TVV lags behind, so initially use the GBL to set the nose on the AOP. 7. Execute a maximum performace roll to wings-level, and center the AOP between the patch ladders. 8. If you've done this right, you should be at 3,600 ft (plus target elevation), with the TVV on the AOP at 30 of dive. The DRC should be on, or very close to the target, and the pipper should

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How to: Bomb sleds

BlueRidgeDX

be short of the target. From this point, you only have three seconds to make any corrections before the pipper will pass the target. You've got to make them count. 9. Aggressively fix any 3/9 error. Use bank and load factor to center the target between the pitch ladders, and place the PBIL on the target. 10. Use load factor to set the DRC on the target. As soon as the DRC is on the target, maintain the pitch angle you have. Don't go bobbing up and down trying to keep the DRC on the target. "Set it, and forget it." 11. Allow the pipper to track up the PBIL toward the target. When the pipper is on the target, press and HOLD the pickle button. Remember, you're dropping a stick of bombs, sometimes as many as six of them, and they don't all come off at once. Wait until you see the CCIP reticle start to flash. The flashing reticle means that the time required to release all weapons has elapsed. Don't come off the pickle button until you see the flashing reticle. 12. As soon as the bombs are gone, you have two seconds to establish a 4g wings-level pull Safe Escape Maneuver. Continue the pull until the nose passes 20 nose high, then reduce load factor until you reach 30. If you don't do this, you will either frag yourself, hit the ground, or if you set a MIN ALT, descend below the minimum altitude. 13. Recover the aircraft. Since you're making a left hand pattern, make a climbing left turn on to the crosswind leg of the pattern, and return to Base Altitude. 14. Rinse and Repeat. Note any errors you made during the last pass, and correct them.