Writing the tutorials

 

Seriously - teaching someone else is one of the best ways to truly learn something yourself.

you sure right there, Ryan.

Aviation buff and realworld pilot

Wilco PIC 737

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PMDG Manuals

Through complete trial and error, to begin with. I started flying those really bad default 737s and 747s. Then I started watching the ITVV videos, with Don Grange, and Alan Carter realising that the defaults were nothing like the real 737. Then when things got a bit more serious, I started flying the first PMDG NG 737 and got a few hours in this, and the PSS Airbus collection, then the amazing 747 Queen off the skys came out. The MD11 as well, which seemed very different to everything else. Dabbled with the Level-D 767. So alot of the knowlege was transferable.

 

The NGX is alot more detailed now, and it was a bit like learning it all again. I must admin I do find it easier to learn by watching other peoples videos. Manuals are ok for getting started, but I hands on is sometimes better, and having a video as a visual aide is a real help.

What I hadn't already picked up from their old 737 for FS9, the 744 and other Boeing knowledge, I got from the tutorials.

 

It still baffles me that most all of the information you'd ever need to fly the plane is in the tutorials, but so few here seem to fly them.

 

...but, but, but...it's not in video form??!?!!? You mean I have to read?!??

For what it's worth, I know there are some good YouTube videos out there, but I avoid them like the plague. They may be procedurally correct, but most of them never tell you why you're doing what you're doing. That all's not mentioning the generic lack of voice quality/tone in a good number of them.

Youtube, the tutorials, and now Angle of Attack.

Flaps 5, trim in the green range, N1 to 95%, pull back when it seems appropriate. Don't need no manual. Fly around for a bit and check out the cockpit. Fly familiar short route after playing around in the FMC. Fly tutorial one. Fly around more. Fly tutorial two (needs to do that some more...). Flies more. Reads thread and amused that it's written in past tense. Who stops learning?

...but, but, but...it's not in video form??!?!!? You mean I have to read?!??

 

The manual is good, but I need to see with my own eyes the aircraft being flown and operated by people who know how to fly it.

I learned by reading documents "737NG" and SmartCockpit.

Boeing logic learned from a 757, plus the manuals, plus another my FS mentor friend.

hand flown like a big fat heavy over sized c172. Thats all it is in its basic form and I got vectored by default ATC to my destinations. This went on for several months in combination with tutorials especially u tube

- Working for Qantas.

- Studying the FCOM, FCTM and QRH provided by PMDG. Believe it or not, a great deal of the content in these manuals is precisely the same as that in QF 737 flight decks.

- Company manuals and training aids.

 

M McKenna

The PDF Tutorials, the rest can be done after flying, read the detailed stuff during cruise

I mainly learned how to fly the NGX by drawing upon experience with the FS9 PMDG 737 and the Wilco 737 PIC. 90% of my knowledge of the NGX I had already acquired from those two addons, as well as some experience with a freeware 737-800 from my days with X-Plane around 2006-2007. I bought the PMDG printed manuals, which were released some months before the NGX release, late 2010, and studied those as well. Finally, growing impatient waiting for the NGX, I had bought the iFLY NG for FSX, which gave me some real practice for about 3 months before the NGX release in August 2011. The NGX is the first addon aircraft I have ever bought where I did not consult the manuals at all, due to practice with the iFLY, but that does not mean I didn't find new things to learn about. I'm still learning new stuff about the NGX because it is such a complex bird, mainly intricate and obsure details related to specific airliner ops, like company cost index settings, flaps settings for takeoff, RNP procedures, etc. I also learned plenty about proper fuel planning thanks to the excellent Tutorial 2 by Tabs.

Trail and error

Hello,

i was wondering, how did you, the NGX community learn to fly the NGX? tutorials? youtube? i would like to know.

i learned from tutorials/ justplanes videos. then when i went inside the cockpit 6 month ago, i knew that i am doing everything right.

what about ya? cheers.

 

Reading the Boeing FCOM/FCTM/QRH. Not everybody's idea of fun, but as a real-world pilot I'm kind of used to this.