1 minute ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

@Fiorentoni, yes, I meant download speed.  I hardly ever fly at accelerated speeds. Being retired helps. Daytime flying only

The only time I’ve done it is when a football match is going to start before I can land so I consider it legitimate to speed things up.

Download speeds are really not a problem. Recommended DL speed is 20 MBit. When at FL600, you need no hi res textures oder detailed PG, which additionally lessens the load.

28 minutes ago, rka said:

Download speeds are really not a problem. Recommended DL speed is 20 MBit. When at FL600, you need no hi res textures oder detailed PG, which additionally lessens the load.

Hopefully people will only fly Concorde > Mach 1 over ocean. There were some routes where they were allowed to exceed that over land such as Northern Canada and the Saudi Arabian peninsula.

4 hours ago, wiler said:

How do you turn off the co pilot lady?  asking for a friend 🙂

Ask her how much she weighs. 😉

 

Thanks a lot, @Ray Proudfoot for kindling my interest in this bird! An amazing engineering accomplishment and quite an interesting undertaking of flying it. I just bought the DC Design Concorde and can't wait to start flying it. Although I probably need to get into the whole system first. 

For @DC1973 What's easiest way of knowing when updates are available for the Concorde? And what's the update procedure? (Sorry it's a stupid question). 

Thanks again.

It's nice coming across other Concorde users on MSFS:

Edited April 2, 20224 yr by Zangoose

58 minutes ago, anden145 said:

For @DC1973 What's easiest way of knowing when updates are available for the Concorde? And what's the update procedure? (Sorry it's a stupid question). 

Thanks again.

As you have purchased from Just Flight, you will get an e-mail when an update is available, and then you just download the installer and double click in the same way you did first time around. The installer finds Concorde and installs the updated files, simple as that 🙂

Edited April 2, 20224 yr by DC1973

Seeing the photo by Zangoose prompted me to look up the number of Concordes produced. Twenty in total, 14 for commercial use and six for development purposes. 

Already, a cockpit repaint is available:

https://flightsim.to/file/30332/concorde-cockpit-repaint

 

Someone should send that screenshot of the two Concordes to Airbus, and tell them to hang their heads in shame for the decision that they made in 2003.

Edited April 3, 20224 yr by Christopher Low

On 4/2/2022 at 12:21 PM, Ray Proudfoot said:

Why would you want to? You’re already flying at 2.5x compared to an Airbus or Boeing. Whether the ground could be rendered is highly questionable. Can MSFS cope at Mach 8?

Well, sometimes even 4-5h (including everything like flight planning etc.) is too much of a single simming session for me, usually I find 2-3h max. And speeding sim rate up while cruising at 60'000ft would certainly help putting a EGLL-KJFK flight into my schedule, that is why. 

I doubt that the sim would have any issues in loading water at 4x sim rate, even with Mach 2.0...

That's what I'm doing as well. There is no problem at X4, or x8 over the ocean for cruising.

There are some wonderful tutorials appearing on YouTube at the moment, explaining Concorde's systems in ways so much clearer and easier to understand than the bland text of a manual. This one was recently posted by a professional pilot and shows how to operate Concorde's fuel system and CG balance, and will also help to show the level of complexity we have put into this Concorde for MSFS - it ain't "easy" 🙂;

CG balance and fuel transfer methods

4 minutes ago, DC1973 said:

There are some wonderful tutorials appearing on YouTube at the moment, explaining Concorde's systems in ways so much clearer and easier to understand than the bland text of a manual. This one was recently posted by a professional pilot and shows how to operate Concorde's fuel system and CG balance, and will also help to show the level of complexity we have put into this Concorde for MSFS - it ain't "easy" 🙂;

CG balance and fuel transfer methods

This is perfect. I love this and it will be what I strive for going forward. His level of explanation is really great and he has a way of relating information to the audience. Thank you for sharing, Dean. 

1 hour ago, AnkH said:

Well, sometimes even 4-5h (including everything like flight planning etc.) is too much of a single simming session for me, usually I find 2-3h max. And speeding sim rate up while cruising at 60'000ft would certainly help putting a EGLL-KJFK flight into my schedule, that is why. 

I doubt that the sim would have any issues in loading water at 4x sim rate, even with Mach 2.0...

Understood. Why don’t you fly some shorter routes? Concorde would soon become boring if the only routes you fly were to JFK and Barbados.

Being a sim you can fly routes the real aircraft never flew. Two of my favourites are EGCC to LPPT (Manchester to Lisbon) or Oslo to Heathrow. Both are 1.5hrs max in real time. Both get up to FL570 so the only bit you’re shortening is the cruise / climb phase.

I’ll post the routing here if there’s any interest.

Hey @DC1973

I was reading through the manual for the DC Concorde. Amazing job! Thanks.
While reading through it, I found an error. Where should I send suggestions to? Could I PM them to you, through AVSIM? Or do you have a official support email for such purpose?

Thanks again.

P.s - thanks to @Ray Proudfoot for keeping up in here and being so helpful and dispensing his immense knowledge of the Concorde. Such an amazing piece of engineering! A shame, that it doesn't fly anymore... 

Edited April 4, 20224 yr by anden145