I have just resumed some flying with FSX and I was having a hard time to figure out how to make a quick flight or mission just to practice landing at a particular airport. I remember with FS2004 I could make a quick flight (?) by starting say at 2000ft and 2nm from KFSO, and then I could play that flight or mission over and over to practice landing by flying different aircrafts, at different times, weathers, etc. Sorry that this might sound like a dumb question, but I haven't been figured this out yet. There must be a way to make such a quick and simple free flight or sth like in FSX!Thanks for all the helps!Yang

very easy.start at the airport you want with the plane you want.start on the runwaynow. startup your airplane, turn everything on, radios, etc..now take off and since your going to do landing practice, leave gear down and flaps where they are at.as soon as you are up, slow the a/c down to approach speed and put in full flapsnow fly about a minute - to be sure everything stabilizesnow enter slew mode y keymove your plane where you want it. like back and lined up with the runwaycome out of slew, hit y again and immediately hit pthen hit ; key to save out the situation, say landing practice, etcnow hit p again and shoot your landing, when your down and want to try it again just hit: ctrl+; and it will reload it again and do this as many times as you like

Just remember that when you want to load the saved landing approach in the future, you will have to estimate the position of the throttles, and "spool the engines up to the required power". Just pull back on the yoke/joystick for a few seconds until the power stabilises (to keep the nose up), and then you should be able to practice that landing again.For the record, I have several hundred saved UK airport/airfield landing approaches for the Flight1 Cessna Citation Mustang and Project Airbus A318, and I will be saving quite a few more when the Just Flight Comet 4 is installed. I love (hand flown) landing approaches. They are my favourite part of flight simulation :(

good point, I forgot about that, I don't fly jets much at all, all piston prop, so the throttle thing is not such a big deal as it "takes" quicker.

Thank you guys! That works. For some reason I was never aware of that FSX has a "Save" function while flying. Absurd, I know, but I normally flew full window and never bothered to check out carefully the pull down menu. Only recently I began to do a lot of setting changes (graphics, time, FS Recorder etc) on the fly and was amazed that all actually worked well in FSX. Thank to you guys now I learned a small old piece new. :-)Yes, I love manual landing in FSX, it's pretty much more than 50% of the fun I had with FSX. I don't have the time and patience to learn and fly a three hour flight, with taxing on the ground etc. But maybe I'll get into that later. I just found ATC can be quite a bit fun.