Azrob send me a email with you address and I will send you the manual that came with the acft. if you wand. There is no problem for me to print the manual, but all depends were you live. The hold think is pretty heavy and I don't know how much the post office will charge for the hold think. So send me email [email protected]

Azrob send me a email with you address and I will send you the manual that came with the acft. if you wand. There is no problem for me to print the manual, but all depends were you live. The hold think is pretty heavy and I don't know how much the post office will charge for the hold think. So send me email ok. [email protected]

Thanks for the offer Maldo that's very nice of you \ But no thanks - anyways I'm going to start off with the Intro and Tutorial and go from there- after that... I think I'll hook up my computer to my 56in t.v. and drink some RedBull and start with Manual #1

If you're prepared to do some printing, print the Normal Procedures - Amplified Procedures, FCOMv1.PDF - Pages 65 to 162 and the checklist from the Quick Reference Handbook, (QRH), QRH.PDF - pages 25 to 28. These are all the pages you will need to do standard flights. Once you are familiar with the standard flights and procedures you can read through the documents to go into other procedures more in depth.

i hope i will never have some apple crap in my cockpit...

LOL... My flight bag has doubled in weight over the past 3 years since my regional has gone through mergers. I can't "weight" for an ipad!

get a meego pad

If you were thinking about spending the money to print the manuals somewhere why not just buy them from PMDG? Even printing them at home would cost money in paper and ink, so it makes more sense to me to just buy them http://www.precisionmanuals.com/ProductCart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=20 At least that way they are printed professionally and look beautiful. Or you can just read them on the computer.... That's what I do, though I'm on the verge of ordered at least the printed QRH...

get a meego pad

I think the appeal of the iPad is it's FAA approval and specialized flight apps. I imagine more tablet-esque electronics will get the go ahead in the future as it makes a lot of sense and saves a lot of weight.

apparently the AoA training will be much deeper than any Manual could ever go. Ground work alone is something like 44 hours!! (dont quote me on that it might just be a rumor hehe) before you even get off the ground

I stopped printing manuals long ago, I think the last hard copy full manual I printed was the original 767PIC (done double sided at my work ;) . Since that time I have installed a second computer and have all my manuals at the ready on my second machine, great solution for flight simmers, perhaps the Ipad is the next best solution. Mark.

using a 2nd monitor or laptop for the manuals if I'm during a flight ... I though printed the tutorial which was a good idea, but printing all 3k+ pages would be overkill for me

Azrob, Start by flying the tutorial, e.g., page-by-page and step-by-step. Pause your simulator and use the documentation to research item when you have questions. After you work through the tutorial several times, and subsequently develop a "working" understanding of the aircraft, you can begin to look a bit deeper into specific systems or procedures. Once you have a few hours under your belt you will no doubt experience situation which promt exploration, e.g., the first time ATC gives you a late descent clearance you will likely want to research the altitude intervention function, your first low visibility approach might promt you to exlore the HUGS in more depth, etc. Don't try to tackle the complexities of this aircraft all at once. Develop a "working" understanding by flying the tutorial flights and then begin to dig a little deeper. Frequent short flights between unfamiliar airfields will allow you to get comfortable with the two most involved segments of flight, e.g., departure and arrival, while forcing you to expand your understanding of the systems as you work through various types of departure and arrival procedures. JW

If you're prepared to do some printing, print the Normal Procedures - Amplified Procedures, FCOMv1.PDF - Pages 65 to 162 and the checklist from the Quick Reference Handbook, (QRH), QRH.PDF - pages 25 to 28. These are all the pages you will need to do standard flights. Once you are familiar with the standard flights and procedures you can read through the documents to go into other procedures more in depth.

Thanks Bear! THAT'S THE ANSWER I was looking for, just the pages to do a normal flight

I stopped printing manuals long ago, I think the last hard copy full manual I printed was the original 767PIC (done double sided at my work ;) . Since that time I have installed a second computer and have all my manuals at the ready on my second machine, great solution for flight simmers, perhaps the Ipad is the next best solution.

I thought about getting a second used computer for my charts, I just never thought about using it for manuals too, but I like the idea

Azrob, Start by flying the tutorial, e.g., page-by-page and step-by-step. Pause your simulator and use the documentation to research item when you have questions. After you work through the tutorial several times, and subsequently develop a "working" understanding of the aircraft, you can begin to look a bit deeper into specific systems or procedures. Once you have a few hours under your belt you will no doubt experience situation which promt exploration, e.g., the first time ATC gives you a late descent clearance you will likely want to research the altitude intervention function, your first low visibility approach might promt you to exlore the HUGS in more depth, etc. Don't try to tackle the complexities of this aircraft all at once. Develop a "working" understanding by flying the tutorial flights and then begin to dig a little deeper. Frequent short flights between unfamiliar airfields will allow you to get comfortable with the two most involved segments of flight, e.g., departure and arrival, while forcing you to expand your understanding of the systems as you work through various types of departure and arrival procedures. JW

Thanks JW Thats what I'm going to do - start with the Tutorial and go for there. Its just So damn intimidating for a newbie to see All this Information on how to fly this beautiful plane, that it scares me to death I started to look through some of the manuals and I'm saying OMG how the hell am I going to fly this plane.I think that PMDG did a OUTSTANDING JOB on this one - They hit this one out of the park, its a beautiful plane But .......Out of the 3372 pages from the 6 PDFs I just wanted to print out a few pages on how to fly the Boeing 737 - thats it......I don't want to know that Hot and Cold water is available in all Lavatories and that the hot water heater is located below the sink andwhy the toilets have blue water.. I just want to fly