British Airways' Concorde Captain
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Captain James Andrew is the only British Airways captain to have flown Concorde. He has been involved in research on Concorde for the airline since 1962. He joined BOAC in 1946 and has flown Comets, Constellations, VCIOs and 7475. Of Concorde, he says: “Concorde is a very pleasant air craft to fly. Fitted with the most modern avionics, it provides pilot and crew with all that is needed to do a first-class job.
“Triple inertial navigation systems provide the en route guidance, and the aircraft carries wiring for even more sophisticated area navigation systems, which will be installed when R-NAV routes come in during the late 70s.
“The dual auto-pilot provides fully automatic approach, landing and over shoot, and will be cleared through lower weather minima as operating experience is gained.”