DC Designs Concorde

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  Concorde paint job for Landor livery?
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  @RunawayAtLarge said in Concorde paint job for Landor livery?: Wondering if anyone might be able to repaint and fix these 2 little issues for me on the Landor livery please. Even though the liveries are mistakenly filed under MSFS and not FSX, this might help. https://library.avsim.net/search.php?CatID=root&SearchTerm=concorde&Sort=Added&ScanMode=0&Go=Change+View
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  Pretty sure this is misleading product description!
  • RunawayAtLarge  

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  We're all friends now - good! "Inertial Navigation System based upon simulator's internal GPS / flight plan system" My emphasis. Easy to miss this in the current (until the page gets edited) description, but that was a clue. Unfortunately it was tucked away in the "small print" of the detailed description.
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  Cabin Doors Functions on DC Concorde
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  @HighBypass That's about it unfortunately. I'd buy GSX but I'm working only in MSFS now so there isn't much point in me purchasing it.
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  Some bugs
  • Cpt_FireAndIce  

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  @DC1973 Can't wait for the update then!
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  DC Concorde Tutorial Videos
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  @fernandito1969 Hi, sorry for the slow reply. Concorde is a very finely balanced aircraft and as such, it is not easy to fly her correctly ( even though this is not a study-level aircraft ). One of the most important factors is the Centre of Gravity control, which requires you to pump fuel either forwards or backwards through the aircraft as speed increases or decreases in order to maintain balance. Without that, Concorde will not reach Mach 2 or 50,000ft. In addition, the aircraft weight will tend to hold Concorde back if you attempt to climb too quickly. If you are reaching FL 400 and she doesn't want to go any higher, simply level out and allow Concorde to accelerate. As fuel is burned off and Concorde gets lighter, you will be able to "creep" climb slowly ever upward. Concorde often only reached her highest altitudes towards the end of a flight, and never at the beginning. Finally, some third-party weather programs seem to interfere with Concorde's flight model. If the above does not help you and you have extra weather programs installed, try switching them off to see if it helps Concorde's performance
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  Numbers in manual and Overspeed warnings
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  Thanks for the information Dean! There are working barber poles on subsonic aircraft in FSX, as you no doubt already know, but of course they are different ASI gauges not related to Concorde's unique characteristics. @SpeedbirdCanada thanks for your input regarding the numbers.
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  Enjoyed first 2 flights but.....
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  @SpeedbirdCanada said in Enjoyed first 2 flights but.....: ......so I can load fuel for slightly shorter flights and not fight with CoG problems. As a quick start, remove some fuel from Centre 2 (fsx fuel and payload) that way you have room to pump fuel back ASAP if required and of course less fuel in Centre 2 to begin with means less fuel overall. I'm trying to alter the autothrottle parameters such that the autopilot will not kick in the reheat at subsonic speeds, nor will it do so for the supersonic acceleration from Mach 1.5 ? to 2+ (autothrottle_max_rpm) I've set it to 96% and will experiment further. I'm looking to set the Mach hold at 2.0 and leave it there during the supersonic climb without having to nudge the speed up in 0.1 increments. I may alter the rate of climb according to skin temperature. Obviously this change will not give reheat for TOGA I believe, but I personally can live with that (if I'm going around then some of that process will not be on autopilot.. for me anyway ). One thing we can hopefully all agree on is to have a Merry Christmas!!
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  Auto Land misses runway.
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  @SpeedbirdCanada It was more a reference to having less clutter on the display to be honest. The ILS arrows provide descent information to a hand-flown ILS approach, while the FD can be viewed in the GPS screen if desired. Maybe I will add them in the next update though if folks would prefer to have them.
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  Just bought
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  Yes I found it lol after I posted this lol thx all
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  Too many faults, can't land, can't take off, no afterburner flames.
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  @Craig I've even turned on the smoke (using the default key i) and then hit full throttle and the reheat flames turn on
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  Afterburner
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  @Cropduster47 I have checked this here in both FSX and Prepar3D and the reheats are working correctly. It's very hard to diagnose what the problem could be that you're having as I cannot reproduce it here. I will keep an eye on things though in case somebody else sees the same problems.
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  Throttle Control Parameters
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  Great news! Happy flying!
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  Autothrottle/Autopilot response
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  Excellent! I guess it would be prudent to await the update before any possible tinkering, thanks.
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  Paint Kit
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  @CXA001 said in Paint Kit: Would it be possible to get blank white textures with an overlay showing where all the different components are? i.e nose gear doors, etc. in PSD format. Sorry for the late reply, I missed this one! A new paint-kit is being built at some point, so the UV layout will change and I'll include it with the future paint kit.
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  Overspeed... over zealous?? Also.. Wobbles..
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  It's possible but very hard for me to be sure or to fix issues caused by external programs, but I don't think FSUIPC is at fault in this case as most of Concorde's avionics and controls are entirely stock sim values, so very little to go wrong. The FDE is very specialised for Concorde so that might be something to do with it, but it more seems to be weather orientated for some reason? Still looking into it to try to pin-point the cause.
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  Landing Lights/Logo Light
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  @HighBypass I don't have a copy of FSX:SE so cannot speak about it, but I will check the taxi lights also to see if they're functioning as they should be here.
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  Doesn't work
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  @Cropduster47 @HighBypass All seen and noted chaps, added to the list of updates and bug fixes, there aren't all that many but the ILS one is important as is the ILS / ALT HOLD issue. Will sort them out ASAP.
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  Cold and dark
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  @DC1973 said in Cold and dark: .... There is no default cold and dark setting.... For what it's worth I made my default FSX:SE flight with a cold & dark stock Cessna 172. That way any aircraft I load into the sim is (for the most part - the BBS Airbus still has it's batteries on...) cold & dark. Be warned that if, like me, you also shut off the mixture then you won't get Concorde's engines to start... unless you use CTRL-E or press CTRL-SHIFT-F4 to give full mixture. It had me puzzled for some time!
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  Great aircraft
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  @DC1973 I too would like to add a "Thank You!" for releasing this aircraft. You may have noticed I've posted several questions in threads all tonight in fact, but I've not long had the product and I'm getting used to her quirks and "bugs"/sub-optimal user input (i.e. Me!). It may seem like I have a downer on your Concorde, but nope, I'm just an enthusiastic end user who wants to enquire about fixes/workarounds... and features (or lack of because not meant to be FSL or PMDG)