Concorde!

Ferry_vO

Ferry_vO

Retired SOH Administrator
Libardo Guzman released a brand new freeware Concorde with VC at avsim yesterday! It's as good as his C-46 and Boeing 707 and it seems like a worthy replacment for the old porject Mach 2 Concorde which seems to be no longer available.

The basepackage is 'conga.zip' at Avsim, but some additional downloads are required: you can find "fsconcpn.zip" (Gauges),"nlf_v2.zip" (Lights) and "cncsstsn.zip" (Sounds) at Flightsim.com while the file "njs_final.zip" (Smoke effects) is also available at Avsim. Make sure you read the docs before you install it.

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I installed that last night and played with it a little. Pretty nice.

A problem though, no matter how I loaded it or fueled it I could not get the gauges to tell me the CG was in limits. It always seemed to be too far forward (if I'm interpreting the gauge correctly).

The thing flew OK regardless, even went mach2, but the overspeed warning comes on at about mach1.2 with the CG out of limit. So I just ignored it.
 
Does she expand at the high speeds like the real Concorde did? Tho I doubt that can happen with a computer edition.

She does look sweet. :applause: :ernae:
 
pfflyers said:
A problem though, no matter how I loaded it or fueled it I could not get the gauges to tell me the CG was in limits. It always seemed to be too far forward (if I'm interpreting the gauge correctly).

The thing flew OK regardless, even went mach2, but the overspeed warning comes on at about mach1.2 with the CG out of limit. So I just ignored it.
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That should be OK for fun flying but... if you have any interest in taking part in an event like the RTW where flight parameters are monitored by Duenna, the overspeed will trigger an error. No way of knowing yet whether there'll be an SST option or requirement for next year's race but this is something that needs to be checked/cured if it's an issue.

Rob
 
I'm currently flying at 52,000 feet at Mach 2.0 and no overspeed warnings at all.
After take-off I kept the speeds at 250 kts up to 10,000 feet, 320 kts up to 25,000 feet, mach 0.80 up to 40,000 feet, mach 1.2 until I reached 52,000 feet and then I accelerated to mach 2.0.

BTW pfflyers: What panel.cfg are you using? The one that came with the aircraft or the one from the additional panel download? I believe one that came with the aircraft is the correct one.

There's a small fix for the panel at Avsim: ' cpcfg.zip '

:)
 
Thanks for the tips, I'll try flying it again.

I was using the panel cfg that came with the aircraft.

Nothing I tried last night would extiguish the CG warning light. Am I the only one to have that issue? Didn't seem to hurt the flight performance.
 
pfflyers said:
Nothing I tried last night would extiguish the CG warning light. Am I the only one to have that issue? Didn't seem to hurt the flight performance.
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No, I had that issue as well. Didn't seem to impact the performance or handling and I didn't get any overspeed warnings.

:)
 
Thanks Ferry-

I just took it up again, 50,000ft, mach2, no overspeed warning, still getting the CG warning.

I guess I wasn't at a high enough altitude last night when I got the overspeed warning. (I think I got impatient and put the throttles to the firewall at about 38,000ft)

I wonder if taking the CG gauge off the instrument panel will put out the master caution. That will be my next test flight.
 
Have to give this a try this weekend. Just watched two really good Concorde documentries recently. Never got a chance to check out any of the other FS9 Concordes.
 
I kept the speeds at 250 kts up to 10,000 feet, 320 kts up to 25,000 feet, mach 0.80 up to 40,000 feet, mach 1.2 until I reached 52,000 feet and then I accelerated to mach 2.0.
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Was fortunate to be able to fly a number of times - as a passenger - on the Concorde in real life on business. This is a pretty accurate flight profile. The deceleration/decent phase is equally interesting, in that she maintains altitude e.g. 55,000' while decelerating from max speed of 1,300 mph down to about .95 mach and then decends - at least that's what I remember.
 
Yup, that should work. The high mach cruise is only available at high altitude (above 60,000'. probably the most interesting planning the descent profile to drop out of high Mach/IAS and fit through the rather narrow window into the approach corridor. Will have to try this one out. the old one (mach 2) approached and landed well if flown like a heavy 747, approach at about 165 knots.

T.
 
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