High-angle fire (Chapter 32) · Shooting statistics (Chapter 33)

A.9 High-angle fire (Chapter 32)

The three rules are not variants of the same formula: they act on different objects and they go wrong in different ways. The angled shot always goes high, uphill as well as downhill, because the cosine does not change with the sign of the angle; what matters for gravity is the horizontal projection of the path, while air drag acts over the whole slant range.