Agreed. The shooter would still definitely have to make local estimations of wind speed and direction, there's no way the app could get that data in real-time or in sufficient resolution.
My understanding is that the Coriolis Effect only comes into play at very long ranges. That being said snipers nowadays are more and more using heavy caliber (generally .50BMG) rounds and taking their shots at much longer distances than in previous times.
As an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Furlong
Rob Furlong made a shot against a target that was 2,430 meters away. At that range the bullet's flight time was just under 3 seconds! At that sort of range pretty much anything can affect the bullet enough to deflect it off target...
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Agreed. The shooter would still definitely have to make local estimations of wind speed and direction, there's no way the app could get that data in real-time or in sufficient resolution.
My understanding is that the Coriolis Effect only comes into play at very long ranges. That being said snipers nowadays are more and more using heavy caliber (generally .50BMG) rounds and taking their shots at much longer distances than in previous times.
As an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Furlong Rob Furlong made a shot against a target that was 2,430 meters away. At that range the bullet's flight time was just under 3 seconds! At that sort of range pretty much anything can affect the bullet enough to deflect it off target...