FSX usually creates a flight plan, pointing right at the runway, but without editing it so that your airplane is pointing at it, leaving you to edit it yourself, and me being a non pilot, have no idea what a realistic, or even safe final approach looks like is there a program you can use to create a flight plan, that would also add the final approaches in as well?

FSX usually creates a flight plan, pointing right at the runway, but without editing it so that your airplane is pointing at it, leaving you to edit it yourself, and me being a non pilot, have no idea what a realistic, or even safe final approach looks like is there a program you can use to create a flight plan, that would also add the final approaches in as well?

You can select an approach in the GPS, and then activate and fly it..

There are a few variables here.. Is it a VFR approach, or an instrument approach ?.. What type of airplane ?Starting with basics.. a VFR flight in a light aircraft: You just contact the tower about 20 miles out and they'll tell you which runway to use, and how to enter the pattern.. At a non-towered airport, you would listen to AWOS/ASOS, and then pick the runway yourslef, according to the surface winds, and enter the pattern as you see fit.

In the US at least, many approaches start at a transition point or feeder route well out on the enroute airways, so by using your GPS to select the appropriate approach and transition you can get get route guidance to your landing runway. In Europe and other places the approach aren't quite so long, but it seems at least in some cases what in Europe is used as an arrival "STAR" is coded as an approach transition in the GPS. You can always edit your FS flight plan and place your own waypoints to help.scott s..

You could do a lot worse than follow this excellent (free) video series:http://www.flyaoamedia.com/blog/aviator-90/Great for learning VFR stuff.Also http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ is as good as it gets if you want to learn navigation, including IFR, and again it's free.