Bergerie1,
Agreed, we were all barking. But you know full well that the sims nowadays are so much better than those produced in the late 1960s. Younger readers may not realise that the VC10 sim at "Branecrank" (Cranebank, near LHR) was not considered to be fully representative of the a/c. No zero-time conversions in those days.
(And that's setting aside the limitations of the analogue visual system, consisting of a monochrome camera which "flew" over a model of the environs of an airfield - I forget which, but someone's going to remind me. Yes, you could actually crash the camera.)