A better trip! I may be getting a little more used to the quirks in the bird, not to mention my FSX setup (other post in the FSX forum..). 

Climbing like a homesick angel away from KJFK. In real life, Concorde and her crews were rather good at sticking it to the noise abatement crowd who really didn't want Concorde's roaring Olympus orchestra creating stillborn children or scaring cattle (or whatever..) - but due to her manoeuvrability she aced all the noise detectors in a climbing turn which loaded 747s struggled to match . I reckon it was sour grapes because Boeing's SST 2707 never got beyond a mock up, but that's just my opinion! The fact was she passed the noise detection. Note that the 2707 was indeed a wondrously amazing-looking behemoth with swing wings and a two-joint drooping nose. I had a model of one way back and I for one was a fan & would have loved to have seen it actually fly, had it worked as hoped! 🍻.. Sorry. I digress.

 

Goodbye NYC.

 

Subsonic climb to reach open ocean.

I'll have to investigate the overspeed parameters..

 

Mach 2+ west to east. It gets dark even quicker, but a lovely view up here.

 

I probably should have made a flight plan which routed me south of Ireland and then I would no doubt have decelerated towards the Bristol Channel..  I believe I may have disturbed the tranquillity of the Emerald Isle. I can just imaging Bishop Brennan castigating Father Ted, "CRILLEE!! What the feck and damnation was that noise?!! You didn't buy Father Dougal that chemistry set he's been after did you?" (totally made up scenario, but the Father Ted series was being broadcast when Concorde was still flying). Actually , not long after this shot was taken, the stock ATC gave me an initial descent.. 

 

Subsonic now and approaching the North Wales coastline.

 

We're being vectored for an ILS approach to RWY23R. Somewhere above the nose in the picture is BAe Warton, Blackpool airport is the large, dark expanse above the tail.

 

No shots of the runway from the cockpit, I was too busy juggling off the AP and AT - it wasn't pretty. I had her in NAV mode and whilst she did turn towards the localiser, I forgot to press ILS... (FSX NOTAM - I'm sure that at 3000 feet, one intercepts the glideslope from below.. however, the gauge was showing the arrow at the bottom of its travel. I think it had begun to move up the display... before I decided to go manual.) I landed long & with a ground effect bounce!   

 

Taxiing in, nose pointed at the Airport Hotel! I reckon I need a beer after that flight!

 

Shutdown. SODE kind of works too!

 

Cheers! 🍻

Father Ted, I see, aired first episode...21, April, 1995..."Father Ted wins the "Golden Cleric", for saving a fellow group of priests from an embarrassing situation..."

(Yeah, two and half decades ago...it has been a while, for sure, Mark,....🙂...)

But I digress...

Nice flight, here...!! Bringing that bullet from 2+ Mach to manageable speed for LOC/ILS capture for a good (and bounce-free) landing...is/was a challenge...(as I recall from FSLabs)...