The famous jet that graced the skies above the Atlantic Ocean with British Airways and Air France for almost thirty years, Concorde, has been developed and today released for X-Plane 11. The supersonic airliner will continue to be developed by the developer COLIMATA through updates leading to a full version.
The aircraft was developed over two years and updates were posted periodically, later frequently, to its release in this thread. It costs US $49.95 as of time of writing, discounted from its presumably full price of US $59.69.
The features list is as follows:
3D COCKPIT
- Super detailed 3D cockpit
- Front panel, center panel, roof panel, side consoles, Engineering
- 4k cockpit textures including 100’s of texts and markings
- Incredible level of interactivity
- More than 1000 click regions (switches, quick access areas etc)
- 700+ custom lights for:
- Warning lamps
- Gorgeous, dimmable night lighting (Instruments, panels, consoles, floods, etc.)
EXTERNAL MODEL
- Detailed 3D model of the aircraft
- Opening passenger and cargo doors plus service panels
- Very detailed engines
- Including moving ramps, intake/spill doors
- Animated primary and secondary nozzles
- Engine cowl doors can be opened
- Mounted engines
- External 3D model of Olympus 583 engine
- Detailed landing gear
- Many utility vehicles included (tankers, conveyors, catering, etc)
- Full use of PBR
- Beautiful 4k textures including normal maps
FLIGHTMODEL
- Refined flight model
- Subsonic and supersonic speed ranges
- Mach 2 capable (twice the speed of sound)
- Takeoff and Landing with Concordes unique attitude
- Plugin driven custom engine parameters
- Plugin simulated vortex lift forces and ground effect forces
SOUND
- fmod 3D sound
- Dozens and dozens of sound effects
- Audio advice from Copilot, Engineer and Pilot
- A dozen different sound spaces
IN ADDITION
- Basic Autopilot (more is in development)
- 3D passenger cabin
- Extensive Graphical User Interface (scaleable in size), with features like:
- Flight Preparation
- Aircraft management:
- Virtual flight engineer
- Custom content
- 2 liveries included
- Many more in the livery download section
UPDATES
- Regular software updates (download in the forum or on colimata.com)
MANUALS
- ‘10 essentials’ manual included (55 pages)
- Quickstart manual (coming in summer)
- Full manual (coming in summer)
Concorde is available for purchase from x-plane.org here, for US $49.95.
Thank you Tyler (TestFlight) in the Threshold Discord server for notifying us of its release.