Concorde's maximum permitted range was 3700 nm, this trip (skyvector https://skyvector.com/?ll=33.3923131857 ... 020%20LFPG) is longer than 4100 nm. Can Concorde do this trip in simulator ? Yes, she can :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oLB7LD-obw
Some details :
route SVMI - ORTAC - LFPG/266/020 - LFPG
ZFW 86500 kg, fuel load 96952 kg
take off 1608Z from Maiquetia rwy 10
TOC FL600 349 nm before ORTAC
TOD FL600 50 nm before ORTAC
landed at CDG rwy 08L 2006Z
touchdown with 9100 kg FOB, at the gate 8900 kg FOB
HP200LX failed to calculate route with words about insufficient fuel. So I manually entered wpts into INSs.
METAR SVMI 082000Z 09006KT 9999 SCT016 SCT100 31/24 Q1011 - the temperature was very high and Concorde had very big problem gain speed and altitude after reheat off. Climb rate was very poor, only 250 fpm till to reach 300 kts, then accelerated and climbed better. Transsonic accel was slightly slow too, 10 minutes on reheats. At FL450 - 600 the weather was very friendly with average 50 kts tailwind almost all route. I calculated decel point on HP and manually started the Descent checklist, MACH 1 reached few miles from Le Havre. AP catched LOC without troubles at 250 kts on first iteration, without zig-zag maneuvers, but very high over the GS, so I landed manually.
I calculated fuel predictions every 20 minutes, 200 miles before Azores was result, that the plane will land only on gas vapors, but then I entered into the area with very cold air with temperature -70 deg C and fuel efficiency greatly improved, so plan B-divert to Brest Bretagne was not required, I landed with 9.1 tons of fuel in tanks and normal CG without any pax moving along the cabin. Flight time 3:58 is very good, on airliners.net (https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=190337) I found time 4:10.
On Wednesday I will try to break another record - KJFK - EGLL under 3 hours, weather forecast is very promising, there is nice jetstream over the Atlantic.
