From DC designs. I’m sure a lot will love doing LHR - JFK

Concorde work continues with even more dials, knobs, buttons, switches and animated drums! We have now added the selector dials that control just how much fuel is transferred into which tanks each time, allowing fine control of Concorde’s Centre of Gravity when in flight. This is not only important for obvious balance reasons, but also for when using the automatic fuel-transfer system, for which it then controls how much fuel to transfer each time to maintain the aircraft’s balance without the user having to worry about it.

The hydraulic system is running well, with multi-selectable set-ups for blue, yellow and green systems ( although not all three will have any effect on Concorde, they were there for redundancy purposes in the real airplane ) and the electrical system is linked in with everything else. There is basically too much to list here so I won’t bore you all with it, it’s enough to say that with the projection gauges now being finished off / refined, Concorde is finally fully functional, and work on the manual and final flight testing will begin next week. At the same time, a single copy of Concorde will be sent to YouTuber and commercial pilot CorporatePilotDad, who will perform the first preview of Concorde while also helping us to test her prior to the launch day. Further preview copies will then be released to selected previewers in the days following. Those receiving preview copies have already been contacted or had it confirmed that they will.

For those of you wondering, Concorde’s launch day is March 30th, 2022.

 

Is this study level?

16 minutes ago, ahsmatt7 said:

Is this study level?

I doubt it but I beat its still great fun.

1 minute ago, FBW737 said:

I doubt it but I beat its still great fun.

d'accord !

56 minutes ago, ahsmatt7 said:

Is this study level?

DC Designs is a developer that focuses on entertainment more than study, that being said, he mentioned several times that the aircraft is going to be rather complex and challenging. 

Just viewing many Concorde videos. This one highlights Concorde 001 first test flight. Excellent video quality for 1969!

 

Great news!

4 hours ago, Abriael said:

DC Designs is a developer that focuses on entertainment more than study, that being said, he mentioned several times that the aircraft is going to be rather complex and challenging. 

Interesting. Thank you for your reply.

5 hours ago, FBW737 said:

I doubt it but I beat its still great fun.

Thanks foe the reply! Guess we will have to wait and see. Looks nice though graphicslly.

Looking at the pictures on Facebook I'd have to say the textures are not great looking for an MSFS 2020 offering. Looks more like an FSX bird to me.

Edited March 13, 20224 yr by FBW737

Looking at all the released pics of this lady - it never shows a Flight Engineer - just 2 full captains

I would think - and hope - as a potential purchaser - and too old to be a study A/c user - are we to 

be supplied with a 3rd officer - whilst we enjoyed the flying bit. 

7 hours ago, jaytee73 said:

Looking at all the released pics of this lady - it never shows a Flight Engineer - just 2 full captains

I would think - and hope - as a potential purchaser - and too old to be a study A/c user - are we to 

be supplied with a 3rd officer - whilst we enjoyed the flying bit. 

The fuel system does have an automation option, but you will still have to fly Concorde correctly if you wish to achieve Mach 2 and maximum altitude of 60,000ft. Even then, Concorde will only really achieve it towards the end of a flight when she's lighter, with some of her fuel burned off.

If anyone fancies a shorter test flight in Concorde this is one I have flown many times in P3Dv3 using the FSL version. Assuming a westerly departure from EGCC and a landing on 03 at LPPT. Flight time from throttles forward to landing is 1h 25m - one hour less than subsonic aircraft.

EGCC - EKLAD - WAL - PENIL - UNDUX - ABGEP - MORAG - DOKEK - 50N 07W - LAPEX - 4346N 0933W - XERES - ORSOS - BUSEN - LPPT.

Accel Point is ABGEP abeam Anglesey heading south where you should be at FL280, Mach 0.95. Expect to reach FL560 or thereabouts.

Decel point is abeam the city of Porto. If you've done your calculations correctly you should be subsonic 20nm before ORSOS at FL360 and descending rapidly with throttles back at idle once subsonic. Expect 6000-8000fpm descent. Perfectly normal.

The 1091nm flight requires around 43T of fuel for a pax load of 96. You should have around 15T of fuel remaining. Landing speed around 155kts.

Thanks for the test flight plan Ray, I'll certainly give it a try once released.I never knew the descent rate was that high.

Cheer's

14 minutes ago, Car147 said:

Thanks for the test flight plan Ray, I'll certainly give it a try once released.I never knew the descent rate was that high.

Cheer's

The plan was to stay as high and fast as possible for as long as possible then descend very quickly. The descent was quite gradual to start with. Maybe 2000fpm until Mach 1.5 at which point the throttles were retarded further. To maintain 350kts IAS that required the nose to pitch down further with descent rates around 4000-5000fpm. Once sub-sonic at FL360 they were reduced to idle hence the very high descent rate. The pax never noticed of course. The pressurised system made sure of that.

There is a standard procedure for the descent and I'm sure @DC1973will include that in the docs.