Simviation Forum - Some questions regarding Just Flight Concorde Professional

Mar 21^st, 2010 at 7:23pm

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I have bought the Concorde payware from Just Flight and have been testing it and learned to tax, take of, fly and land it.

I did a rotation from London Heathrow to New york and i choosed IFR and direct GPS so the duration of the flight time where somebit 7-8hours (standard plane he he). Everything went good but after a couple of hours the engines shut of due to lack of fuel. On the fuel display i have fuel left but it seem like the valve to the remaining tanks are closed. How does this works? Can i switched to auto or something? I just want to learn to fly it from A to B before i do this kind of proceedures. Roll Eyes

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Reply #1 - Mar 21^st, 2010 at 7:49pm

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I tested some more know and it seems like its not the fuel but overheating the engine. The engine no1 is shutting down first and i have a alarm. I tested to shut down the reheat buttons but it stills overheat.

Btw even if i have the reheat on and engine no1 is shutting down i can se the flames after it like it was working properly. I don´t understand a shit.

Should the reheat be on during the whole flight or should it just be used to accelerate the aircraft once i have left the noise restriction areas?

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Reply #2 - Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 9:28am

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HI,

You wouldn't use the reheat all the time, you'd overheat the engine ports plus you'd not have enough fuel, only use the reheat burners once out over sea.

Play around with the fuel selectors and don't forget that in the Concorde, fuel was used to maintain the C of G plus was used for cooling.

If it's anything like the Abacus Concorde you've little chance of flying it properly without doing some reading and using ALL the panels Wink

Steve

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Reply #3 - Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 1:04pm

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EVVFCX wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 9:28am:

HI,

You wouldn't use the reheat all the time, you'd overheat the engine ports plus you'd not have enough fuel, only use the reheat burners once out over sea.

Play around with the fuel selectors and don't forget that in the Concorde, fuel was used to maintain the C of G plus was used for cooling.

If it's anything like the Abacus Concorde you've little chance of flying it properly without doing some reading and using ALL the panels Wink

Steve

Thanks! But i did activate the reheaters once i left the coast of brittain but they overheated south of iceland and everybody was dead in the crash.

The manual don´t explain the gagues or buttons and what happends when i press them. I need somewhere i can learn the basics Wink

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Reply #4 - Mar 25^th, 2010 at 1:11am

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To answer your reheat question:

To take off, you "arm" the reheats, slam the throttle forward, rotate at about 200 knots to 14-18 degrees, accelerate to 250 knots and hold it. Typically at about 70 seconds after take off start, you will extinguish the reheats.

In the real world, you would fly some subsonic path at about 25,000 feet, .97 Mach, to an "acceleration point" over the ocean. When you reach it, position your throttles to full, and engage the reheats to go supersonic. Leave them on until you reach 1.7 Mach. Those two times are the only times the Concorde ever used the reheats.
There is a bit more to it than that, but that basically is the process.
You don't need reheats for cruise!

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