Classic British Flight Sim

Your on the money DaveB,

was out sailing came back last oct and my account had expired and they don't seem to respond to emails.. tried making a new account same problem..
given up now..
Concorde X is ace though :-)

I thought so Sam

Sadly.. they don't respond to CEO's emails either now so where once upon a time, we could get a pilot re-instated.. that doesn't happen any more. I didn't receive a single email back from them the last time I tried so I've given up You can rejoin us again BTW but it would be as a new pilot with no credit given for hours/types already flown

ATB
DaveB

B***er it! I've bought it... I shall report back.

Paul

Now there's a surprise!

Looking forward to your report

ATB
DaveB

Sorry to be a bit late on this one - very busy these days.

Paul - your set-up (as in PC hardware) seems identical to what I ran the Concorde X on when I got it. My dual core was an E6850 Core2Duo, mind, at 3.6GHz (overclocked a little). Apart from that, it was 4GB DDR2 and a 1GB HD4870 - so very similar, just that little bit more oomph under the bonnet.

I would say that makes all the difference, too. Shame you aren't slightly more knowledgeable (or confident - there are some very good tutes on upping the oomph around), as you could probably overclock that cpu of yours.

Well,

I'm impressed.
I had the the Flight1 Concorde for FS9 and it's clear that the developers of that have had an input into Concorde X.
It's attention to detail and systems are brilliant. If like me you like to spend time flicking switches and starting things up from scratch, you'll think you're in heaven.

I've managed two full flights so far, the Tutorial London-JFK and the London "round the bay" supersonic charter which is a good way to do all the stages of flight in a shorter time. I also spent a while banging circuits and practising the take-off and climb out procedures.

It's not easy to fly; in my opinion the elevator trim is too slow, but I appear to be in a minority on their forum, so there's a lot of stick pressure needed to hold the initial pitch angle and then you need to be quite precise on maintaining the IAS upon thrust changes. It's general hand flying also takes a fair bit of skill.

It does benefit from a virtual flight engineer who will not only handle the very complicated fuel systems, but will also knock off the reheats and retard the throttles for you, which is what would happen if you were the PF on Concorde. These can be turned off in varying degrees though for a full on experience.

My PC is on it's limit though, not graphically, but you can tell I'm under on processing. It occasionally will hang for a second or so.

J0hn, yes, confidence is my issue, overclocking is appealing but I'm just not sure.

On the whole, I'm glad I bought it, the fuel, performance and load programmes plus the documentation does really give a very, very in-depth experience and will take many flights to master.

Paul