Full flight from Heathrow to J.F.K. on the board of the most iconic aircraft - Concorde. I tested many freeware and some payware Concorde for FSX and P3D. The best is of course payware FS Labs Concorde X, #2 is this opensource for FlightGear simulator. All others are more or less crap, freeware (from Rikooo) or payware (DC Design). They have not autopilots with all functions, or You can fly MACH 2 at FL300, without any CG movement controlled by fuel transfers. And properly managed CG was mandatory for reach FL500 and MACH 2 speed.
FGFS Concorde is not ideal, too, but all main aspects of the supersonic flight is simulated, MAX CLIMB and MAX CRUISE AP modes, fuel transfers for CG control, watch nose temperature, intake ramps and many more. Only proper INS simulation is missing. This feature is available only in the FS Labs airplane.
All sudden aircraft's movements are caused by big flaws in the FG's Advanced weather modelling without correct interpolation between METAR stations, not by autopilot errors. FG has not simulated realistic wind aloft. Air temperature above the tropopause is constant, what is another big flaw. Main error are sudden baro pressure, weather direction and speed changes. This was many times reported, but developers ignore these problems with many scientistics posts how this can't be done better and if I dislike it, I would not use it. And it is clearly visible that this can be done perfectly - ActiveSky, Opus, REX, partially FSXWX / P3DWX are very good examples.
It is amazing take off from Heathrow into the evening darkness, reach the stratosphere, race with the shadow running over the Earth surface and land at New York under nice sunset.
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