FSFrance Concorde
review
The Concorde was a supersonic passenger airliner developed by A�rospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Although the Concorde was not the first supersonic passenger airliner, it was the more successful of the only two supersonic airliners to have ever operated commercially, the Russian Tupolev Tu-144 being the other. Despite the excellent safely record, the Concorde operations ceased 24 October 2003 due to low passenger numbers following the type's only crash (on 25 July 2000). Also, the slump in air travel following the September 11 attacks and rising maintenance costs made the retirement of the Concorde unavoidable.
FsFrance developed a freeware Concorde for FS2004. FsFrance closed their doors in 2007 due to conflicts with people who made their products available for download under their own name. This happens all the time to all freeware developers, but it seems that it was reason enough to stop for FsFrance. Nevertheless, their Concorde is still available here and there, so we did not want to exclude it from the aircraft reviews section.
This Concorde model looks nice and comes with panel, virtual cockpit and passenger cabin, sounds and liveries of Air France (new colors) and British Airways (old colors). The panel is quite simple and the functionality is very limited. So don't expect a realistic Concorde experience, like with the payware alternatives. However, the panel is equipped with TCAS and everything seems to work fine. The virtual cockpit is very basic and doesn't offer much functionality. The whole passenger cabin is modeled, including the wings. All animations seem to work properly, except the main landing gear. It is floating a few feet above the ground on takeoff or touchdown, like there is an invisible surface above the runway. The flight dynamics are quite unrealistic, it's very easy to climb to FL550 and speed up to mach 2. Just climb and you'll get there in no time. And you might want to decrease the sound volume a bit, cause the 'sonic boom' is quite loud!
A FSX version is also released later by a 3rd party developer.
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the good
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License |
: | Freeware |
Panel |
: | Yes |
Virtual Cockpit |
: | Yes |
Wingview |
: | Yes |
Sound |
: | Yes |
Developed for |
: | FS2004 FSX |
Compatibility |
: | FS2004 FSX |
Wingflex |
: | No |
Landing gear |
: | Unrealistic and floating at touchdown |
Rudder effect |
: | Realistic |
FS2004 |
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FSX |
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on 02/20/2009 at 22:42:11
just as a comment, im having problems with the sound barrier, when i reach mach 1, it appears a window saying "creation failed;check if sound is available" and fs stops. what can ai do??can someone help me??it happens with the tupolev too :S
on 03/08/2009 at 14:11:08
Does this aircraft work with FS2002.on 03/17/2009 at 15:36:14
hello am having problems i downloaded this fs concorde for fsx sp2 but the virtual cockpit glass is black and i cant see any suggestionson 04/22/2009 at 16:32:36
i got FSX Acceleration which included the sp2 Update and the cockpit window is all black and cant see nothing... but guages are fine....just the cockpit...on 05/15/2009 at 16:39:57
hi i downloaded this and installed it on fs9 and i cannot accomplish sonic boom so can someone tell me how to do sonic boom please??on 06/14/2009 at 13:15:15
I would EXTREMELY reccomend this to anyone who does not have the money to buy the SSTSIM Concorde....on 06/19/2009 at 14:12:26
This Concorde is compatible with FS2004 and older FSX versions. FSX SP2/Acceleration might cause some problems, like the back cockpit windows as mentioned. FS2002 compatibility has not been tested.on 08/02/2009 at 16:01:28
When i try to takeoff on this, it always just keep the deggree, but seems to go straight forward, as i will explain with arrows.My nose: ^
The aircraft still goes:>
Why?
on 08/12/2009 at 14:22:38
Perhaps the aircraft is too heavy? Also, make sure that the nose is in down position on takeoff.on 10/01/2009 at 23:34:26
Where can you download this? I tried the link but it just takes me to a blank page.on 10/02/2009 at 12:04:13
There seem no problems with the download urls.Add a Comment
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