Excuse me if this is a stupid question but I will be a PMDG NOOB after the release of the 737-800 as this will be my first PMDG product purchase. While looking at the PMDG website I noticed they have PMDG trainning manuals for sale there and good lawd they are not cheep! Are these manuals required to have to be able to fly this bird? Wont the product come with any manuals already? While we are on the subject how much will the AOA trainning be and do you suggest getting that? Jim

PDF's of the exact same manuals sold by PMDG will be included. I do not own AoA products but I hear they are very good and the ones for the NGX are supposed to be even better.

Don't worry, Jim, they've announced that the product itself will come with the manuals, like on the products before.Those things will even be printable, so you don't have to get the printed stuff shipped to you. They've struggled a bit with the 'printable decision' after this post and left it open until only some time ago (which may have helped the sales on the printed manuals ), but their final statement was that the product will include the necessary manuals, they just don't offer them on the page for free download beforehand. If they continue with the quality on the manuals like on the MD-11 or the J-41, you'll get a lot to read and only some stuff won't be modelled then.

Excuse me if this is a stupid question but I will be a PMDG NOOB after the release of the 737-800 as this will be my first PMDG product purchase. While looking at the PMDG website I noticed they have PMDG trainning manuals for sale there and good lawd they are not cheep! Are these manuals required to have to be able to fly this bird? Wont the product come with any manuals already? While we are on the subject how much will the AOA trainning be and do you suggest getting that? Jim

Not only will you have PDF manuals .. you will have multitudes of You Tube "how to" video to learn from as well.