[Released on PC and Xbox] DC Designs Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde

Care to share how you get it to work reliably at the vast majority of airports?

I have only seen a workaround with flipping the RAD/INS switch back and forth to hopefully make it ‘engage’, which is of course not a reliable way - and definately not something you should be doing during a approach in a concorde.

Have you checked the Baro? Maybe that’s why.

MAX CRUISE shouldn’t overspeed, is MAX CLIMB which can overspeed a bit.

You cannot adjust the empty CG, is fixed in a position, but you can slide fuel tanks, just slide Tank 9 or 11 to move CG. If you can’t, is a common MSFS bug.

Yeah figured. Had forgotten to change from transition to standard altitude.

I can move the fuel around with the sliders; but then they slide back. Yeah I figured its an MSFS bug. Going to put up a feature request/bug report for it. Its happened on other airliners also.

I was trying to use the fuel calculator made my someone in this group. But cannot enter the values as it simply doesn’t accept it on the fuel slider. Agaain, this is an MSFS issue as I’ve seen it happened on other planes too. But just thought I’d share it here in case others are experiencing it.

@DrivenImpala805 Do you happen to use KG units?

I experienced that the fuel sliders would ‘snap’ back when I was using KG units.
Using LBS however works for me.

I set the total fuel, then move around the fuel using jettison valves etc.

That’s one way to do it but not the best or recommend way

The INS/RAD thing is a workaround for when there is a problem and I would use it if necessary. “Reliably” means that the Loc/GS will do it’s job snd allow me to have a successful landing. It doesn’t mean that I never have to use the switch trick.

Sorry if this kills your immersion.

That being said. So far I have not had to use the trick. What I have been doing is I wait until I’m within 20 miles of the airport before I turn activate VOR LOC. And I wait until I see the ILS needles on the CDI.

For me the goal is landing the plane successfully, not immersion. And just keep in mind I haven’t flown to the majority of airports. I’ve done several flights but obviously not to everywhere already. I’m just saying that now that I understand the airplane I don’t seem to have as many problems.

Yes, and you can planning better your TOD. Is the sum of all flightplan legs. Sorry for my late answer!

Could you explain that? And maybe provide a screenshot?

You mean this?
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Its a counter for your distance. You can set the nm distance in there and you can planning your nm until TOD, i think maybe the system works with the datasette or the INS-system from your flightplan earlier. I m not sure how correct this works, but its a distance counter from your flightplan.
EGLL-KJFK the distance is 3186nm and when you want 200nm before to sink, so you can better planning the distance also to your TOD.

How do you set it? Rotate the dial? When I say explain, I mean instructions

just wonders, recently go exterior walk around and the main fuselage texture are full of wrinkles, is there any future plan to upgrade the exterior model a bit?

I think this distance information you become from INS, or in dc design concorde from FMC. With Number 6 Button “Set” to “+” you increase the miles value and to “-” you decrese the miles value.
“Reset-MON/ENTER” you convert your miles value. Is the sum of all the legs in your flightplan.

I see…I guess we’ll have to wait until we can set the amount of fuel for each tank separately?

Yes, the metal wrinkles are my first attempt at that. There will be considerable model and texture upgrades over the coming months for Concorde now that the foundation of the product is solid :+1:

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What a beast of an aircraft, thank you for bringing this old lady to Xbox.

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Great effort, can’t wait for that, I personally feels the wrinkles and rear wheel + main landing gear lock seems a bit ackward and have margin to improve a bit and make it truely shine

You can do that now

I just tried EGKK ILS 26L approach and landing and it worked like a charm. VOR LOC then GLIDE.