How To Start Up The Concorde - The Most Complicated Plane

Today's Video: How To Start Up The Concorde - The Most Complicated Plane

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[Omar]

What you learn: Airbus Cockpit
What’s on the revision sheets: Boeing Cockpit
What’s on the Test: Concorde Cockpit

[tomfaiola]

Quick correction on the INS, wich are not connected to GPS (no gps at that time). It’s stand for Inertial Navigation System and it’s basically an inertial platform that compute the position of the aircraft and a lot of important stuff related to navigation by calculating accelerations in différents axis. Before moving the aircraft you have to align them in orders to define the initial position. It is the father of the IRS still used in today’s aircraft for navigation, even with the rise of the GPS

[stephanoknol]

Me casually rebooting the WiFi
What my parents see:

[justanaviationguy]

Concorde Startup be like the test teacher calls "not that hard"

[teribasi]

Now, make a "How to start up a Tupolev TU-154" video with Russian English accent

[gintarasstumpf]

Swiss: Finally it's going to be a professional flight.
Also Swiss: Let's just let the passengers smoke.

[mrsus]

damn didn’t know I had to learn calculus to start up an airplane

[alderusdmc]

Actually, you did good keeping the GPU in place as long as you did. Since Concorde has no APU to save weight and space, the GPU is absolutely essential for power while the engines are off.

[cheese]

Checklist: set to yell yell/off


Swiss001: *YELLS* OFF

[Tomas_]

INS stands for Inertial Navigation System. It basically keeps track of aircraft's direction and speed to determine it's location relative to these typed-in (or pre-stored) starting coordinates. It was used before GPS was a thing.

[dindangt]

People: videos not professional enough
Swiss001: Randomly parks concorde on on the taxiway

[aussiemozzie]

But also we need to Respect the Devs and Coders for actually Researching this stuff and Coding it and making them all Function

[priyanshuraha]

After you crashed, even though you did a professional procedure, i felt that: Swiss001 will always remain Swiss001 :)

[polarisukyc]

I think INS stands for inertial navigation system, most commercial people carriers have at least one inertial measurement unit and the align setting actually aligns the gyros, it cannot align a gps as I’m fairly certain that commercial gps didn’t exist when Concorde was first built

[ringoooringooo]

Copilot: Can we take off now Sir?

Pilot: I guess...

[DiveNL]

9:11 Pilots when passengers clap after landing: annoyed

Passengers when pilots start to clap: *_*

[fredericlepeltier]

Working on my limited knowledge, some engineering logic and a beat of educated guess :)
So correct me as you see fit when i'm wrong .

It's the check list for a Low pressure start of a turbojet engine (not a modern turbofan).
- GPU prvide compresses air to the engine (- either the low pressure compressor or the high pressure one -) up to a low idle RPM of the high pressure compressor-turbine assembly (N2 gauge).
- Then turn the starter ON ( The spark plugs in the combustion chamber)
- To make sure you do not starve the engine of air or hyperventilate it open the bleed air valves and the cross bleed (Specific of the concorde because of the twin engine nacelles i think).
- Only then open the fuel pumps to start the flow of kerosene in the combustion chambers. The engine should start.
Outside you should here the distinctive WOOSH of 60's and 70's era aviation engines :)
Do that in reverse and you'll get a short but big burst of flames from the fuel leaking trough the exhaust. (The old time of the centrifugal jet engines!)
The engine should get up to its high idle Rpm of 67% indicating it does not need assistance by the GPU anymore.
- Repeat for each engine. They profit of the rush of air from the cross bleed also.
- With each engine running normal you can then sart the associated HYD pumps and ELEC GEN running from the accessory shaft of the engines.
(Today that's when the lights blink when switching from one power source to the other - APU or GROUND to engine and back)
That's one of the reason the lights are sometimes turned of on take off so as not to drain to much shaft power when taking off at altitude, in heat conditions or short runway.
The other being of course safety in case of evacuation in night take off and landing.
- Plug out the then unecessary GPU. (or APU if you have one)
FYI :
INS stand for INertial System. A gyroscopic platform that give the plane a REF for navigation. You need to get the gyro turning at it designated RPM and feed it the coordinates of the parking stand (They were sometimes painted near the front wheel mark on the ground) Today the GPS does that automaticly. Its the ALIGN phase. GPS can also re-align a deviating INS platform in flight.
Then set it to :
- Tell you where you are at any given time.
- Tell you how much you deviate from your planned NAV taking for ref WAYPOINTs coordinates you entered in the NAV computer. (No GPS back then and no VOR or TACAN over the atlantic)
- Tell the autopilot the heading to reach the next waypoint. (If you don't set this your autopilot will be set to HEADing and you can end up over sakaline island - remember the Korean air that got shot down in the 80's, the pilot forgot than part !!)
Flight control INV is the system that provide to the pilot trough the stick a "force feedback" of what the control surfaces are experiencing. (HYD system back then)
One of the bleed air valves, located behind the first or second row of blades of the LP compressort, provide air to the AIR CON system and pressurisation to the cabin.
Yeah, in flight you are breathing trough the engines LOL. (When you see a NACA intake at the belly near the wingroots it can also be where the AIR CON get its air and dynamic pressure)

There was also a check-list for High pressure start (don't know for concorde) - (or for when you have to restart in flight).
The difference being i think that it require you have an APU.
It start by turning the High pressure compressor first, bleed air valves closed, turn the ingnition ON and open the HP fuel pumps. (a scene in AIRPORT 80 CONCORDE shows that).
The LP start is less stresfull on the engine.

[emmabentley]

Happy to say, I helped develop this beast ♥️

[Aerogamer]

GPU ground power unit is used normally for electric starts, due to the ground usually having more power available then batteries. Plus, NiCa batteries, used on most bigger airplanes, have a I’ll give ya all ya need until I can’t and burn due to temp runaway. If you’re wondering how hi-bypass turbine engines start it’s usually with a air cart. Though some can start off batteries.

INS inertial navigation system. Doesn’t use GPS. It uses the lat and long you enter into the computer and a combination of different ground based navigation signals to know where it is. Not as accurate as IRS which is more “modern” and can allow for a gps in signal. Also takes a long time to initialize, and can’t shake or move the plane while aligning.

ASI bugs. Air speed index bugs. You have speed cards that are used. Based on weight and type of runway, plus some other stuff. The card will tell you, V1, Vr, V2, and acceleration height (if needed). Bugs for fuel and engine are for setting Bingo fuel and max engine torque for takeoff, then cruise, then missed approached.

No math needed for setting speeds. Companies pay good money for planes and the data for takeoff and landing. They do not want pilots making guesses or math. Except when actually needed, like top of climb and top of decent.

[kevin_sull]

"Today I will be professional" immediately proceeds with the plane half ways on the taxi way and halfway on the grass