It's Christmas break and I'm having a great time flying in the virtual world.I figured out a descent procedure for the PSS Concorde and either I'm really smart or I don't read the manual. :)Ok, I used that fuel planner spreadsheet, thanks to the author - whose name escapes me at the moment. It runs fine in Open Office 2.0.1, which is good, because my machine doesn't have a Microsoft Office license.So I did the KBWI to KLAX flight, set my cruise altitude to 55000 in the flight plan. This is so that once I'm at 55000, I can ignore the handoff from the ATC and fly the rest of the way without being pestered by the ATC, plus I can use MAX CRUISE and float up as fuel is burned.At 250 miles from my destination, I decided to try a new method to descend. Usually I slow to 300 knots and use vertical speed to get down. For some reason I find that a little work intensive. This time I put the AP in Pitch Hold, and cut the throttle. I used the datum controller to set the pitch to zero. I set the target altitude to 55000, and set ALT ACQ. I also turned on the AT.The bird dropped at a nice rate to 55000. At 55000, the AT kicked on and maintained my current speed, and the AP held the altitude. Now I recontacted ATC, who shortly had me descend further.Each time ATC asked me to descend, I repeated the procedure. Each time I got a good descent rate which was protected (i.e. at the target altitude the AP and AT would take over).At about 15000 I dropped below 250kts and drooped the snoot. Otherwise this procedure worked fine until Autoland took over.Just thought I'd share my experience. Can't guarantee it will work for all conditions, but I found it easier and smoother than other procedures.Happy Holidays!

The procedure used in the tutorial is about what would have been used in the real aircraft.It works well so why not use it?When you get the feel for it it's also quite smooth. If it weren't BA would have though up something else to give their passengers a better experience.Concorde wasn't an easy aircraft to fly you know?