Hi All..I don't spend half the time I would like to, flying the brilliant aircraft that PMDG keep producing.. I have their 737NG (FS9), 747-400X, MD-11X and now the best of all, 737NGX. I keep buying these aircraft, but never really learn how to fly them properly....all i ever do is an ILS approach CATIII Autoland. That's because it's the only way I know how to land these heavyweights. So I am looking for some good tutorials on other types of approaches, like visual, vor, non-precision..etc etc. Has any, kind fellow pilot(s) got any idea where I can find a good indepth tutorial on different types of approaches, please... Thankyou

The best I have is AOA trainings DVD. They have these diffr approaches:VOR, LOC, Visual and off course ILS with CATIIIThey have those above approaches in the 747 and MD11 package and much more than that./ Leffe

How about don't do an autoland? You might as well watch videos of planes if all you do is let the plane land itself.The FCTM is the how to on all of the approaches. If you can do an autoland, then you should be able to slowly step down the automation level until you're hand-flying a visual down the Gastineau Channel into Juneau.

I just started out hand flying them out of ignorance. It is embarrassing, but I didn't RTFM until about 2 months in to owning this thing,and just had no idea how. Hand flying online is a lot easier too. What I did was just go with the flow of ATC thinking I was ILS and just used the panel as a guide and FMC to give me a rough idea of alt and speed. I actually got really good at it that way.Now though, with a newborn, I find the CATIII happening more and more as the wife asks for more and more, and has the unreal timing of doing it when I am 3000 feet above ground, on my final...lol.

If used properly, the HGS can be your best tool for learning manual approaches/landings. It can also become a crutch, however, so you have to be careful not to get too dependent on it.

Hi Ian, I think reading your post gives me the impression you are in a bit of a rut.. Obviously you have done ground work in order to achieve your method of landing the 737 thereafter you have got a bit fed up studying. Asking other simmers how to do other approaches, which they have taken time and effort to complete, is a bit much. If you put your mind to it to read and learn some more info on your problem and have some success, that is something to be proud of because you did it yourself. If your are quite young, time is on your side, I am 74 and still learning. Stick in. richard welsh.

What does the thread's starter mean by " flying them properly " ?I think very few of us ( me not ) fly them " properly "Of course auto landing must be abandoned asap.