I have not flown the A-10 for several years. I Decided to give it a try again. But I am experiencing a problem I do not recall ever having before.

When bombing with dumb bombs and Mavericks I cannot line the aircraft up with the target without great difficulty. If I roll slightly left to line up the pipper the aircraft skids severely to the right --and when I roll back to correct it I skid again to the left and I cannot seem to get the pipper on target.

The bomb fall line and pipper act like a pendulum on a grandfather clock. The Maverick pipper acts the same way.

I can line up the LAU61 rockets with no problem and also line up the cannon pipper with no problem either.

Another strange thing is that I can take over the controls in the A-10 trainihng missions and do not have that problem.

I had this same problem in Microsoft flightsim 2004 with the commercial aircraft but I solved it by modifying the flight models ---specifically the MOI values for pitch and roll.

Has anyone else experienced this

After further testing it appears that my problem came from a slightly unbalanced payload.

I had as many Mavericks as I could load which left room for 3 MK-20's. One MK-20 was on one side and two were on the other side.

I tried a full load of MK-82's in a balanced configuration and everything worked OK.

If balance was my problem then all I can say is the flight model is pretty good to be that sensitive to balance.

Very strange. I don't recall weapon balance being modelled on the A-10 and fighters, only the Su-25/T

A10 doesn't model an unbalanced payload. Most likely the mission you're trying it in has a crosswind. Or your rudders are slightly askew.

No Wind and no Rudder problem

I have no weather conditions set in the sim.

I can go immediately to the training missions and take control without this problem so if I had rudder problemw they would carry over to the other missions.

I can also fly the Russian planes and the F-15 and any other loadout combination on the A-10 with no problem

So Since the mission in question had an unbalenced loadout I will have to assume that is the problem.

The A-10 has a tendancy to skid a little when lining up the bomb sights under the best of conditions. It is a lot worse with an unbalanced load.

Describing the plane as skidding is probably not correct. What it seems to be doing is "mushing out to the side" in the opposite direction of the roll.

I listed the loadout --try it yourself.

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