Concorde complex-plus

Concorde Professional comes in a Limited Edition package with a superb ITVV DVD of an entire Concorde Flight for just £34.99/€52.95/$52.99.

This package includes a two-hour DVD of London-New York Concorde flight.

The DVD starts with a bit of puff and then ground inspection of the aircraft, the detail being quite unexpected.

It is certainly enlightening and worth the long sit, coach-potato-style.

The centre console includes throttles and trim plus INS.

The era of supersonic transportation began with Concorde.

Developed as a Franco-British joint venture to be the transport of tomorrow, its shape is still distinctive and Concorde set pulses racing whenever it flew.

After 28 years of commercial operation Concorde has had to take early retirement but, thanks to the development team at PSS, this aviation icon will continue to dart across the skies of Flight Simulator 2004 at 23 miles-a-minute.

The French and English suspended the Concorde from flight on 15 August 2002 following a fatal smashin Paris enrout to New York killin g all 109 on board and four on the ground.

French investigators found a strip of metal on the runway that did not belong to the departing Concorde.

The metal damaged a tyre and the debris punctured the fuel tanl, starting a fire.

The side console is complex enough by itself

Flights resumed on 7 November 2001, but on 10 April 2003, British Airways and Air France put their Concordes to rest, blaming rising costys.

The last scheduled passenger flight occurred on 24 October 2003, from New York to London.

There have been none since and it seems likely there never will be.

All this makes one wonder why bother with a flight sim for a plane that will never fluy again

The easy answer is many of the sims we fly on our PCs have long-since been mothballed, but we still like to mess about with them.

The more complex the sim, the better many of us like it.

In all, there were 20 Concordes built.

In the Just Flight sim, xtensive animation includes nose cone and visor, landing gear, split rudder, passenger and cargo doors, elevons, engine intake ramps and thrust reverser nozzles.

Concorde Professional comes with a comprehensive 2D panel as well as a fully-detailed virtual cockpit that includes high resolution gauges with reflective glass, animated control yokes, rudder pedals, throttle levers and engineer's panel.

As you'd expect, there's an accurate flight model with re-heat effect and an authentic version of Concorde's unique INS (Inertial Navigation System)

Now, this is one you've not seen before: hydraulics panel.

To help you master all this, Concorde Professional includes a 160-page printed manual and a tutorial on the CD.

ComputerNews will publish a full review of the Corncorde soon, so watch out for it!

Many of our subscribers have asked why we do not market flight sims, such as those of JustFlight.

The reason is simple: We are not geared up for it, and in any case, there are so many online sites selling flight sims that you already have a wide choice.

Moving fuel to control CG can get quite busy.

For the Limited Edition included is a two-hour ITVV DVD of a Concorde Flight.

Captain David Rowland and Senior Flight Engineer Roger Bricknell take you on a trip from London to New York with full commentary

If you want to go supersonic, check out www.justflight.com for screenshots and full details.

Cockpit features include true 3D effect ADI ball; zoomed panel for more precise instrument flying; authentic autopilot and flight director; realistic INS; electronic TCAS display; functional ADF2 receiver; complex flight engineer's panels; complex fuel and centre of gravity panels; and a panel configuration utility to assign custom key coordinates.

It also includes air pressurisation and air-conditioning.

All we can say when you have wished for something like this is: be careful of what you wish.

About Just Flight

Just Flight is the world's leading flight simulation specialist, publishing a wide variety of digital aviation products.

Their range comprises a multitude of different titles, including stand alone flight simulations as well as add-ons for Microsoft's multi-million selling Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator.

Just Flight also has Just Trains, a specialist label devoted to stand alone train simulators as well as add-ons for the ever-popular Microsoft Train Simulator.

A British company, based in Cambridge, Just Flight has been established for eight years.

It prides itself on quality, value and customer service, which it backs up with a unique money-back guarantee on all its products.