Anyone flying AIS Concorde

Hi,Yes, the Concorde may be beautiful, but it's a #### to fly!I have PSS Concorde, but the following explanation also applied 8more or less) to FS2002 Concorde, so it can't be all wrong - even if it is the short version!EDIT: You also need to pump the fuel around to maintain CoG - in PSS, that can be handled by a virtual Flight Engineer, but I don't know about AIS. Without this done properly, you'll never go high or fast enough. Probably not even far enough....After takeoff, climb to 10K ft, keeping below 258-280 kts.Above 10K, set IAS to 400 kts and climb to 26-28K. Depending on weather, this will be around MACH 0.95.Set ALT to 58k, Vert Speed to 0. Disconnect A/T.Floor the throttles and engage A/B.The trick is to keep your MACH indicator just below the "Barber Pole" by varying your pitch/Vert Speed. You might have an A/P setting saying "Max Climb", this is for doing just that.As you cross MACH 1.7, disengage burners. Keep the mach needle as close to the barber pole as possible, until you reach Mach 2.0.It will climb slower and slower, and you might not reach 58k until you have to descend.At MACH 2.0, you might engage MACH HLD, but this is not what I do in PSS. Instead I let MAX CLIMB take its time to get me as high as possible.Try this, it's not easy but its does work!BRGDSSven Sorensen, EKCH

>>After takeoff, climb to 10K ft, keeping below 258-280 kts.It was common practice to accelerate to VMO as soon as restrictions were lifted, which were usually noise limited. Out of London this was achieved by applying increments of power as the aircraft climbed away from Heathrow; the first increment of 2% being added at 7nm LON, then every 1000ft. At 8000ft the throttles would be at the forward stops, providing maximum continuous power (MCP). Out of New York, ATC usually lifted any speed restrictions when climbing through 5000ft; MCP was selected and VMO acquired whilst holding 8-11 degrees pitch attitude. To minimise fuel burn it was essential to accelerate to 350kts-VMO as soon as noise abatement restrictions permitted.Best Regards.http://www.sstsim.com/images/awconcsig.jpg

the problem could be because the AIS Concorde is for AI. when you used Pedro's Panel did you also use his air file and aircraft.cfg file? you would probably need to edit the cfg file so it uses the AIS model and textures but it should work then. For flying i use the PSS bird.I use them for AI, i know they are retired but i like to see then still flying and use the traffic file that comes with the AIS Concorde. besides FS9 is supposed to represent a century of flight so it is nice to look back to the oldn times when it used to take less then half the time to fly from Europe to the US. At least the fastest and most elegent subsonic airlinner is still flying, if only as a military transport and tanker, even if the airlines turned their back on it years ago.

Thanks for the tips.No, I hadn't really touched the flight dynamics at all, I'll try that from Pedro's panel, and fly it as described here! Thanks!

Hi Andrew,Great info, thanks for that!BRGDSSven Sorensen, EKCH