G-BBDG is construction number 202. She was put into storage in 1981 and used as a source of spare parts by British Airways for 20+ years. She is now restored (not in airworthy condition) at Brooklands Museum.

To be expected, they were actual Concorde flight crew

yep, and did everything by the book. Perfectly executed takeoff sequence.

Up until this time last year, Concorde DG's nose and visor hadn't operated since 1981. In fact, over the years some of the parts of the mechanism had been robbed for use on the BA fleet. We spent a couple of years restoring the whole system and this video shows us testing everything with a manual pump before ultimately fitting and connecting an electrically powered hydraulic pump. You can see this being tested here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/boGloICVabaVnKM

With how passionate Capt. Bannister is towards Concorde, I'd say for him it would just be automatic

LtBrenton MS Flight Simulator 2004 and the Concorde SST add-on.

Neil Walker Must have taken a royal amount of buggering about to finally get all those controls wired up then :p Any plans to upgrade to P3D with the FSLabs SST?

Although much of the wiring was done by us, the interface 'box' between the controls/instrumentation and the computer(s) was designed and built externally by a company called XPI Simulation. An upgrade to P3D is something we are currently looking into.

barthoedemaker EXACTY. The problems with some planes like the DC10 though, are the facts that they were quite dangerous. Also Concorde used up a lot of fuel and it isn’t an infinite supply. Sadly it doesn’t work like that. But I wish it did.

The simulator is indeed fixed base. British Airways scrapped the motion system when they started decommissioning the sim shortly after they stopped flying Concorde in 2003. Rest assured, however, that the lock of motion does not detract from the experience of flying it. The visuals out of the cockpit are fantastic and do an excellent job of tricking the brain into thinking you are moving. In fact, we've had some people get motion sickness! All of the ex-Concorde pilots that fly the simulator at Brooklands on a regular basis will tell you that the motion was only a very small part of the simulated experience. In fact, you forget that the motion system is no longer there!

Surely you meant that the reheats are used from Mach 0.97 to Mach 1.7 during the transonic climb?

You are correct. Mach 1.3 is the point where the intake ramps begin to operate. I can only assume I had this in the back of my mind at the time I wrote that! Cheers.

+Neil Walker haha! I got the Haynes Concorde book a few weeks ago! Absolutely love it! Must have read it through at least ten times! How I wish I could have been a Concorde pilot!