I'm pretty sympathetic to your case (I remember visiting Cape Canaveral and watching a replay of the countdown to a rocket launch in the control room, which was

I'm pretty sympathetic to your case (I remember visiting Cape Canaveral and watching a replay of the countdown to a rocket launch in the control room, which was incredibly disappointing when they just flashed lights on the various consoles without explaining what happened at each). But to be fair, the article wasn't titled "what a flight engineer actually did on Concorde" and does give a flavour for the general feel of the role.