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Where are you doing this flight if you don’t mind me asking?

There isn’t really much you can do to be honest, the hour will pass so quickly you won’t believe it. I had a go in a BA 747-400 simulator at their training centre in Cranebank Heathrow about 10 years ago. This was before I did any flying at all. Now I fly for a living and I have to say that sim experience still lives with me today.
The thing is the instructor on the day will sort you out, the only thing you might want to do is to familiarise yourself with the cockpit layout. You can use google for this, or another good way is to go onto Youtube and search for 747-200 videos on there. There’s a plethora of information to be gleaned from the internet and google is your best friend.

You could also do as Doogerie said and buy a Flight Sim for your computer. I would recommend Flight Simulator 2004 though, because it isn’t as processor hungry as FSX. Also there is a fantastic freeware program out there for download which may help you round the cockpit, it was a payware program but the developers released it onto the freeware “market”. It’s called the Ready For Pushback 747-200, it can be downloaded here

All the best

Dean