If anyone lives in the South East of England, have a visit to the Brooklands museum. They have the original concorde model that used to be on the Heathrow roundabout, they have G-BBDG, which is the first production Concorde to take 100 passengers to Mach 2, and most importanly for us pilots - they have the original BA Concorde simulator. Its not hooked up to the hydraulics any more, bit it has been modernised to use FS2004 and is very realistic. Its a proper simulator , not some PC with a couple of screens.
I mention this because it doesnt seem to be well advertised, but the place is a little gem, has lots of charm and you can sense that the volunteers have put huge amounts of free time into making it what it is. I went there the other day as my fiancee bought this as my Xmas present, and I did the silver package, so got to meet a couple of Concorde Captains, had a personalised tour of the museum, sat on the P1 seat of G-BBDG, and then had an hour in the sim (though you only get 15 mins each at the controls). I took off from Heathrow, flew under Tower Bridge, round London and landed back at Heathrow. The nice Captain did all the clever bits but it was a fantastic day out, and for me, was as close as I will ever get to the heart of this fantastic airplane
