24 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

The concept of pop up 2D panels in the FSL Concorde was done for practical reasons as much as anything. Given the complexity and size of the FE panel it would be very difficult to move to relevant parts of it in a virtual cockpit.

I understand what you're saying, but wouldn't the custom views in the new MSFS 3D cockpits work just as well, when you need a full-screen view of the engineer panel?

You have a set of 10 different views of any part of the cockpit you want, close up or further away. And that's in addition to whatever the developer has programmed as default cockpit views.

They are pretty old, but they're still there. Nothing magnificent by any stretch of the imagination. The link is in my sig 😉 

Just now, Paraffin said:

I understand what you're saying, but wouldn't the custom views in the new MSFS 3D cockpits work just as well, when you need a full-screen view of the engineer panel?

You have a set of 10 different views of any part of the cockpit you want, close up or further away. And that's in addition to whatever the developer has programmed as default cockpit views.

I don’t have MFS so can’t comment on its camera system. But bear in mind this version of Concorde is unlikely to have a fully modelled FE panel.

5 hours ago, overspeed3 said:

So, why would you actually want a "study-level" Concorde?

BTW, I have the FSLabs FSX Concorde...

You win the Internet today! Ha.

2 hours ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

FSLabs has teased pictures of a concorde in MSFS already,

Source, please.

They showed one picture on their forum (and FB) yesterday - no mention of the simulator platform, could just as well be P3D v5

I have been in the cockpit of one at 60,000ft. Quite an experience. Quite actually does not cover it at all. Best experience of my life which did not involve wife or daughter.

Awesome plane that is worthy of MSFS.

CJ

2 hours ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

 One of the big hurdles that impacted the project was the limitation of "moving parts" in the cockpit. You could only have so many until you reached a cap and couldn't implement any more parts.

I ran into this issue with the Milviz B737 Combi. I solved it through use of the unlimited <Visibility> tags. I simply duplicated toggle switches in their up/middle/down positions, and tagged each of them to show only when the custom L:variable was set: 0 = OFF, -1 = UP, +1 = DOWN. This allowed me to reserve full animation for needles, knobs, and other such objects that needed continuous movements.

11 hours ago, Chock said:

Study Level (™): (colloq) A nebulous marketing term, designed to convince people to pay 140 quid for a toy aeroplane. 🤣

It's right up there with 'museum quality'.

 

10 hours ago, Ted Striker said:

I'm not pulling my wallet out of my pocket until it has a "World Class" label....

I won't touch it unless it's described as "iconic"...

I did have a Concorde for FSX (or was it FS9?). Took me as long to get it started from cold and dark as it took to fly between London and New York!😄

7 hours ago, 109Sqn said:

I did have a Concorde for FSX (or was it FS9?). Took me as long to get it started from cold and dark as it took to fly between London and New York!😄

Clearly it's a very different creature to Boeing and Airbus but FSL created ways to get going quickly. CTRL+I to align the INSs and CTRL+E to start engines in the correct sequence. That was with the FSX/P3D version. Can't comment on the earlier version.

19 hours ago, andyjohnston.net said:

Or any Concorde?  My understanding is there is a limit to the speed aircraft can go in MSFS, the max is less than Mach 1

So, you're saying this "non-study-level" Concorde will only be able to operate at subsonic speeds in MSFS?  What's the point of it, then?

I think I read somewhere that there USED to be a sub-sonic speedlimit in game, but it has since been lifted. I'm afraid I remember where I read it, or attest to how credible the source was. I doubt any developer will develop anything supersonic if such a limitation actually exists... 

Edited September 7, 20205 yr by Andreas Stangenes

It was mentioned by Milviz in a thread, but he later responded to the same thread that in a later build the restriction had been lifted.

21 hours ago, overspeed3 said:

So, why would you actually want a "study-level" Concorde?

 

Why would you want a Concorde?

3 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Why would you want a Concorde?

Airbus max speed Mach 0.81, Boeing max speed Mach 0.84, Concorde max speed Mach 2.02.

Plus it's a beautiful looking aircraft that turns heads like no other.

28 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Airbus max speed Mach 0.81, Boeing max speed Mach 0.84, Concorde max speed Mach 2.02.

Plus it's a beautiful looking aircraft that turns heads like no other.

Hear hear! 

When the last 747-400 or -8 is taken out of service, would you not want to fly her in the sim any more?