Re: Applied Ballistics Mobile App
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Outlaw45</div><div class="ubbcode-body">And the MV tool? </div></div>
AB Mobile has a more expanded capability for calibrating your solution. Thru 'ballistic calibration' you can enter your range and observed drop and the program will calculate the MV which produces that drop. In addition, if you're shooting thru transonic, you can enter another range/drop set further downrange and ballistic calibration will also figure a drag correction for your bullet thru transonic.
This application of ballistic calibration includes the same functionality as the MV tool in shooter, while also providing the capability of calibrating drag further down range.
Some users like the manual 'feel' of tapping in velocity and seeing the solution respond, and match for a table of ranges. However when you calibrate a ballistic solution based on observed range/drop, the most important data point is the farthest data point. If you have drop data at 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1000 yards, and it's all good, you want to do the calibration based on the 1000 yard drop because it will give you the best resolution. Those data points at 200, 400, 600 yards are basically meaningless for use in calibration because at those ranges there's simply not enough drop to measure well enough to do an accurate calibration.
So the interface of the MV tool is different, but in the new ballistic calibration:
1) The calculation is automatic, which saves you from tapping in manually
2) The program tells you the optimal range at which to shoot the calibration for best (most accurate) results.*
3) The same calibration interface allows you to enter up to 3 range/drop pairs which allows calibration of the variables that matter most in their respective flight regimes. In other words, the ballistic calibration tool contains all the functionality of the MV tool, with the addition of some smarts to guide users into calibrating their solution in the most effective/accurate way.
*Currently the ballistic calibration tool won't allow range/drop pairs outside the optimal ranges for each set. We're going to lift this constraint so the program will allow data entry for any range, but still show the 'advised' ranges to calibrate. Frankly what I'm afraid of is users trying to zero at 100 yards and 'calibrating' at 200 and 300 yards which would almost certainly do more damage to their long range solution than if they left it alone. But there are enough users who know what they're doing but just can't quite get targets within the optimal range, so the constraint will have to be lifted.
-Bryan
