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Old 29th January 2026 | 14:47
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EDHL
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I have some questions on engine control that I hope haven't been covered yet (I'm only about 70 pages in).

First, let me make sure that I've got the general principles right:
  • Throttle lever angle (TLA) commands a desired N2, such that a given TLA always corresponds to the same N2. The throttle control unit controls the throttle valve to achieve the desired N2.
  • The current engine control schedule determines the N1 that should be achieved for a given N2. The TCU controls the primary nozzle to achieve the desired N1.
Is this correct so far?

Now on to my questions:
  • Can someone give me a technical reference that plots the exact numerical relationship between TLA and N2? I've found a noise abatement table, which gives me useful values between TLAs of 11.2 and 27, but I can't find values outside that range. The N2 for a TLA of 34 would be of particular interest to me, as this TLA is used in the transonic deceleration below Mach 1.6.
  • Similarly, I'm looking for a reference on the relationship between N2 and N1 for each of the engine control schedules. There's a graph on page 18.02.10 of the Concorde Flying Manual volume 1 that shows this relationship, but there is no numerical scale on the axis. Can someone point me to a similar graph but with numbers on the axes?
The reason I'm asking is because I'd like to tweak the relevant behaviour of the Colimata Concorde addon for the X-Plane PC flight simulator.

I suspect that, these days, the people working on the Brooklands sim may be the most likely to have this kind of information. Are there people from that team on this forum, or does someone here know someone on the team?

(By the way, I wanted to include some links to the documentation above, but I don't have enough posts yet.)
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