I'm loving this product more and more, and was now hoping a real pilot (if one should read this forum) might answer a question for me. As the manual says, if the autopilot is on, then the pilot would enter heading and course changes himself; followed by the FO confirming it verbally. With autopilot off, the pilot directs the FO to make the changes for him. Add to this ATC, where I believe the FO would normally handle that, but I can't do that in FSX (without another addon). So my question is this: do captains handle ATC very often, and then direct the FO to make heading, speed changes etc...with the autopilot on? In a flight today, I was busy with ATC and hence directed the FO to do most of the heading, altitude changes, etc.. Would that be possible, or am I using poor crew management skills?

I'm loving this product more and more, and was now hoping a real pilot (if one should read this forum) might answer a question for me. As the manual says, if the autopilot is on, then the pilot would enter heading and course changes himself; followed by the FO confirming it verbally. With autopilot off, the pilot directs the FO to make the changes for him. Add to this ATC, where I believe the FO would normally handle that, but I can't do that in FSX (without another addon). So my question is this: do captains handle ATC very often, and then direct the FO to make heading, speed changes etc...with the autopilot on? In a flight today, I was busy with ATC and hence directed the FO to do most of the heading, altitude changes, etc.. Would that be possible, or am I using poor crew management skills?

Once you take the runway, you don't really divide it along the lines of Capt and FO, things are usually divided between Pilot Flying (PF) and Pilot Not Flying (or Monitoring).In FS2Crew, the Capt is also the PF.Generally the Pilot Not Flying would handle the Radios, but nothing is set in absolute stone.

Thanks for your reply, I'm just wanting to make sure I don't develop a lot of improper habits. Keep up the great work, I'll be a customer for years to come.