The PSS Concorde, my nemesis, now conquered!

**Andy71** · 04-03-2010, 03:22 PM

As some of you know, the lovely Mrs71 bought me the PSS Concorde professional edition for Christmas.

Now, subsonic short haul flights have been no real problem.

BUT!

I've been struggling to get it above FL320 before it pitches right up onto it's tail, stalls, and falls out of the sky. Having read the book and watched the DVD until my eyes almost bled I had another go today at the EGLL-TBPB flightplan I created months ago. Normally I can't get to Land's End without an epic fail. This morning Concorde had a hissy fit. Everytime I got it ready to taxy the fuel load defaulted to zero and everything died. Finally at 1330 BST I got the thing to keep it's fuel and actually lift off from 27L. I wasn't expecting to complete the flight, or even get past Cornwall but..............

FL550 @Mach2!!!!!!!!!!!!

A couple of panel shots showing the altitude and speed.

It didn't all go without incident, about 40 miles from Adams engine no2 flamed out so I had to land on only 3 runiing engines. Never mind though, I actually managed a full transatlantic at Mach2.

Approach from the VC. Ignore the PAPIs, I was bang on the glideslope but for some reason I always get 4 whites from this view

And 2 from the moment of touchdown.

VICTORY IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**NMLW** · 04-03-2010, 03:34 PM

Great job Andy, sweet set of shots. Glad you got her up and down without a major incident.

**peer01** · 04-03-2010, 04:10 PM

Great Concorde pics Andy, and a great landing.

**Andy71** · 04-03-2010, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by NMLW

Great job Andy, sweet set of shots. Glad you got her up and down without a major incident.

Cheers! yep, 4 hours 45 minutes with only an engine failure on finals and the 2 incidents when the TCAS went mental due to some questionable vectors from default ATC. At one point I nearly had a company 777 as a hood ornament

Originally Posted by peer01

Great Concorde pics Andy, and a great landing.

Cheers Jan, landing it is never a problem, it's the bit in the middle that usually goes wrong

**Trebor 1** · 04-03-2010, 04:33 PM

nice one!

unfortunately, the FSfrance Concorde is the overspeed problem with me. do you have an overspeed problem with this Concorde?

**Andy71** · 04-03-2010, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by Trebor 1

nice one!

unfortunately, the FSfrance Concorde is the overspeed problem with me. do you have an overspeed problem with this Concorde?

I did get an overspeed caption in a heavy tailwind (default weather eh?

) halfway across the atlantic when it briefly hit M2.08 but the autothrottles brought it under limits within about 3 seconds. Only overspeed I've ever had. It's a very good and stable model, complicated but very well rendered indeed.

**MarkGilmore** · 04-03-2010, 04:59 PM

Nice shots Andy
still one of my favourites to fly!

you want to forget about Alt hold though !!
Once you start your climb to 60000 from around 29000 just hit max climb
once at mach 2.0 max cruise will engage and Concorde will then climb , cruise or descend to stay at M2.0

**jeh** · 04-03-2010, 05:19 PM

Congratulations! Sounds like a pain in the ass to get everything right with that beauty. I havn't flown one since FS2000. That landing shot is really nice.

**Andy71** · 04-03-2010, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by MarkGilmore

Nice shots Andy
still one of my favourites to fly!

you want to forget about Alt hold though !!
Once you start your climb to 60000 from around 29000 just hit max climb
once at mach 2.0 max cruise will engage and Concorde will then climb , cruise or descend to stay at M2.0

Thanks Mark, I'll give that a go. Does the default ATC have a strop if you drift under and over your assigned alt though?

Originally Posted by jeh

Congratulations! Sounds like a pain in the ass to get everything right with that beauty. I havn't flown one since FS2000. That landing shot is really nice.

Thanks Jeh. Was that the payware Concorde for FS98/2000? I had that and used to run it with EFIS to navigate the long haul flights.

**MarkGilmore** · 04-03-2010, 05:44 PM

Does the default ATC have a strop if you drift under and over your assigned alt though?

Hi Andy
When I fly the Concorde with default ATC i file the flightplan at FL290
Then once I am at that alt I wait for hand off to next controller , once given , i acknowledge , but do not contact .
Then dial in 60000 on the AFCS and hit max climb .
Auto throttles will disengage , so make sure they are full , hit F4
then use your AB's through mach 1 up to mach 1.7 .
at around 300-350 Nm from destination I will descend back to FL290 and make contact with ATC .
They may tell you turn left.. turn right.. yada yada but ignore them and eventually they will tell you to proceed on course and the usual vectors round the houses to your destination