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First thing that happens is you crash a lot of aircraft and kill a lot of people. Sounds good, huh? Well, all you aspiring homicidal maniacs out there better think again. The object of the exercise is to land the aircraft safely and *not* kill the people. Of course, if you've got a real vicious streak you can have great fun directing all the traffic to the middle of the screen then sit back and watch the resulting carnage. That's if you can get the hang of it first. Believe me, it ain't easy.

Heathrow is a simulator. Not a flight simulator, but an air traffic control simulator. First, there's the instructions to plough through. Complicated? Imagine a four year old learning machine code.

The game takes you through seven levels, from total none-brain air traffic controller to super ultra zippo air traffic controller, with a demonstration somewhere in the middle. When you start getting competent (maybe three years from now) you can start covering things like Vortex Spacing (Eh?), and emergency procedures. This is a faithful simulation of the problems facing an air traffic controller and it would come as no surprise to learn that there's a room full of nervous wrecks somewhere in Heathrow with a label on the door, 'Ex-air traffic controllers'.