Concorde comes to Microsoft Flight Simulator

In his younger days my father-in-law worked on the Concorde based in Bristol giving tours around the plane. The aircraft now lives in a spiffy new museum but I’ve got very fond memories of visiting the plane when it was parked on the BAE site and having him show us around.

There is now a rather good simulation of Concorde for Microsoft Flight Simulator available. We got it running on the Xbox and it is great fun. Just about all of the controls work and there are some useful automatic controls for things like fuel weight distribution (a big thing on this plane) . It turned out to be a really good way to reminisce together (you can walk around the cabin as well as the cockpit) and we could even take the plane up for a flight, which was not something that they were allowed to do in Bristol.

Concorde was a classic piece of engineering the like of which we will never see again. It is nice to see it being kept alive like this.