I would like to get a better feel of the NGX by just flying touch & go's and reasonable small patterns, just by hand. Is it necessary to program the FMC for that? Do you need to go through all the steps? I could imagine that you'd had to do at least some things for instance for getting the trim setting right. But of course this would then change for each single landing and following take-off. If you would be hand flying, there would hardly be any time to continuously reprogram the FMC ... Any suggestions? Thanks!

The wonderful search function showed me this: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/344863-how-to-fly-practice-circuits

Thanks Joseph, and I guess I also should say "sorry" because I should have done this search myself. It says "Newbie" and that is what I am as far as forum posting is concerned. Flying and simming I've done a lot more. I'll try to become a better community member :-)!