20 miles is about right for the localiser - its possible to detect it a little further out but only within a narrow band of the track. Not all have DME capability but if its on the chart then it obviously should be in the sim - I don’t fly ILS approaches in MSFS that much so can’t comment on that.
I’m getting this too with light fuel loads around the equator (so -10C and colder ISA at 50000 ft+). Max climb transitions to Max Cruise above 50000 ft on the way to 60000 ft but with AT armed speed will go way past M2.04 up as high as M2.17. As soon as it captures altitude at 60000 ft, the AT throttles it back to M2.04.
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Thank you for clearing that up. I remove my PMS750 install folder when I am not using it and just move it out. Still amazes me how many errors some of these planes are spitting out and I know not all of them are to be worried about BUT some of them most certainly are red flags for one reason or another. I just started using the PMS750 with the 414 and I really like having the charts and what not. However I do from time to time forget to remove it when I go to fly something else. Not a big deal moving it out to a temp folder and no worries about addon linker issues.
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FWIW, the PMS750 mod interfered with the GPS units in the Big Radials Goose until it was updated for SU9.
Situations like this make it plain why anyone who sims often and with a lot of different planes, sceneries and utilities, really should invest the 15 minutes it takes to install and learn how to use something like MSFS Add-Ons Linker and put their various mods and aircraft into an organized folder structure. Makes it incredibly easy to disable a mod or even a bunch of planes and sceneries when flying “elsewhere.” It not only greatly speeds loading times, it also makes ruling out potential compatibility issues extremely easy.
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One question, the Concorde doesn’t have autobrakes for landing, right? I’m referring to autobrakes for the wheels like the ones on the Airbuses or the Boeings.
For the rest, I have continued to use the plane daily with the 1.04 update on both PC and Xbox and it works perfectly for me.
Thanks!
btw, the after burner effects seems off after SU9, at night the flames shooting behind becomes black, I think it should still be the orange one?
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Hi!
by the official manual there’s not mention that they were automatic, we know they are hydraulic and feature autoskid, but nothing else.
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The engineer’s panel is correct, both digitally and the CG gauge. The pilot’s panel CG gauge is incorrect. I’ve seen numerous references with 1.0.4 to the engineer’s panel gauge not matching the digits, but none with the pilot’s panel.
In a climb, VS does not transition to ALT HOLD, though it does disengage ALT ACQ. Easiest way to reproduce is a slow climb at cruise altitude. So far, this happens every time for me.
I’m also wondering if I’ve just misunderstood the AP modes at cruise altitude/airspeed. I can engage Max Cruise with VS or FLC, and use the vertical mode to keep Max Cruise under control. This also causes VS to trigger ALT Hold correctly. Not sure if it’s supposed to work that way, but it does.
Also, thanks for posting the flight envelope chart. I’ve been looking for that for a while.
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Loving flying the Concorde and am finally getting to grips with it.
I had a weird one today though on a flight from Reykjavik to Oslo, I was climbing steadily from FL520 to FL590, max cruise engaged and suddenly the nose pitched up and I lost a massive amount of speed. After this happened my pitch trip was stuck at around 5 degrees and I couldn’t get above Mach 0.97, this was with afterburners on the whole time. I tried to manually adjust pitch trim but it kept self adjusting back to 5 degrees.
I’m sure it’s something I did wrong but if someone could please enlighten me!!
It was a strange flight anyway, after that happened any waypoint I reached, the aircraft would start doing circles, I had to continually select DIRECT TO the next waypoint in order to make it to Oslo.
from 50000ft you should already have reached at least mach 1.7. Mach 1.0 is breaking the sound barrier and at that altitude it would take a long time to break through. in those cases the best thing you can do is descend to 40000ft and accelerate and go back up
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Thanks for the reply Jack. I appreciate the help.
Should I have pitch trim at 5 degrees? To be honest I never noticed the trim setting when I’d reached Mach 2 before.
I tried turning off electric trim and manually adjusting it but it kept going back up to 5-6 degrees.
Btw, any update on the interaction between the load page in the FMC with the fuel and load page?
No on my part, I’ve been busy lately and don’t think I’ll have time to write codes in May…
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the normal thing is that at high altitude the pitch is always positive, it will never be zero. Another thing is the angle of attack. If the CG is at 59% during cruise it will decrease and if it is Fwd it will increase as the plane needs to stay leveled. at low altitude the opposite happens, if you concentrate your weight aft during a climb or take off phase, you are risking a nose up that creates enough induced drag to stall the plane and not be able to recover
normally the pitch trim is adjusted by FBW, and if it set at 5 degrees you shouldn’t worry about it. It may be due to altitude, gross weight or center of gravity that the trim varies to maintain altitude.
Max Cruise seems to default to about a 3k ft/min climb, and based on what the AP datum selector does, is an altitude hold mode. I’ve found that it’s best not to allow Max Cruise to automatically engage, but to select it manually, also select VERT SPEED, and use the AP datum selector on the pedestal to force a vertical speed. Once you achieve Mach 2, select an 80 ft/min vertical speed with autothrottle on and it’ll nicely hold Mach 2.04 all the way up to FL600 assuming the air is cold enough.
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That’s right, at the moment max cruise is enabled and the altitude reached, the pitch mode goes into alt hold operation.
Pressing alt acq coming from alt hold establish a default VS of 3000ft min. But if you come from other ones will not be the case, Vert hold will handle what is selected from pitch datum, and ias or mach hold right buttons will do based on the current airspeed/mach speed allowing you to adjust from datum too (FLC).
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Random question but I’ve never been able to make the passenger button work… I have payload in each of the business cabins on the fuel menu, toggle the passenger button but nothing ever appears. Any tips?
They don’t work on xbox right?