Originally Posted by
Hobo
Prober - re the boost fuel - I stand to be corrected, but IIRC the fuel load was calculated in the normal way and 900KG min (ie it wasn't an extra 900kg) was loaded in the centre tank as that was the only tank that fed the boost (or an imbalance would result if it was fed from a wing tank). What was left was used in the passing FL100 fuel balancing process.
The T2 had a fin tank (700kg??) which drained into the centre tank - there was a speed limit (300kts??) until it had been used - also the T2 had water injection as an option on take off. This enhanced performance as long as you didn't want to climb, accelerate and turn at the same time. I remember a few occasions at Naples climbing into an inversion, turning and automatically levelling out.
The original Trident had 'pitch pvds' to the outboard of P1 & P2.
David Maltby's sim looks very close to the real thing - with the significant ommission of the pen holders under the coaming and chart holders below the DV window - both vital + (the scrap of card on the coaming with the flight number on it!)
Hobo, on that last point (the vital data card) David improved on that by mounting it over on the left as a grey card that could have the numbers written in chinagraph. When you load the aircraft and climb aboard the card is blank, however one click on the card fills it with the relevant figures for your weight at the time. In the air, on final approach, another click fills in the Vref. I think that card is visible in my YouTube video previously pointed to.
BTW...as someone mentioned, I had a very small part in its development but only very tiny points about things like the drift shutter operation and how the handbrake two sets of gauges worked etc. He did all the modelling and programmed the flight characteristics which are extremely realistic compared to the real thing. I wrote the Autoland Tutorial that can be downloaded with it and supplied some files that set up various training flights from Heathrow, culminating in a full Cat IIIb approach with very near minimum conditions. The other really amazing thing about it is the fact that it is Free!
You can probably judge just how realistic the Cat III is by glancing at these screenshots:-
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