Learned Boeings years and years ago. I just jumped in and flew her without really reading anything. Flew tutorial 1 a bunch later, but I cannot say that I was impressed (starting on the runway? autoland?). I hear tutorial 2 was a lot better tho

Canadian Xpress VA NGX training with CXA instructor.

Father was a pilot in the USAF back in the 50s. Mother taught instrument flying and navigation to student pilots as a civilian instructor for the USAF. Ending up marrying one. I see a connection somewhere...lol. Studied for BS degree with Embry Riddle Aeronatical University towards commercial pilot rating. 30 hours shy before eye issues killed that endeavor. Spent many hours messing with real simulators in the USAF. Started PC flying with the original Sublogic Flight Simualtor on an Apple IIe.

 

So the NGX was not hard at all. To me it is the best simulation of a commercial airliner on the market.

So the NGX was not hard at all. To me it is the best simulation of a commercial airliner on the market.

I agree with you.

Captain Mike Rays books were very helpful to me.

 

I agree. Mike Ray's books on flying the 700 series Boeings are very easy to understand, enjoyable and get you flying quickly.

The link is in my signature.

The Level D 767 in fs9.

 

I inherited fs9 from my older brother who had this. And with the manual I taught it to myself. The 7 series Boeings are similar so that helps. Then I just kept getting more payware planes with in depth systems etc.

 

Like some others here I am just an aviation nut too, also what helps is that same older brother is now an NG FO so can ask him questions about it, and other stuff which is pretty cool (we still like doing fsx together when he comes to visit, it's cool for me and also quite lucky for me as well).

 

I'm almost done high school here and will be going into the aviation industry too, fsx has played a big roll in that, apart from it seeming to run in the family even without fsx- funny story about my great uncle crashing his plane into my grandparents neighbors yard, but for another time

 

So to answer your question again, I already knew most of the stuff in the NGX from earlier planes, just had to learn all the other things the ngx got.

 

Regards

Lee

 

I by the way, the story is only funny because nobody was hurt in the crash...

I agree. Mike Ray's books on flying the 700 series Boeings are very easy to understand, enjoyable and get you flying quickly.

The link is in my signature.

 

The written tutorials are very helpful, because they sequence events, a bit like the videos. A bit easier to digest than the FCOM. The information is there in the FCOM, but it can be quite hard finding the right areas sometimes. Quite daunting.

NGX was my first payware Add-on, so although I was in to FS for many years, lots of stuff was new to me SID/STAR etc.So my learning curve was:

 

- T: The first training document by Ryan. I did the training flight and repated it in different routes myself. Kept on autolanding.

- T+50 hrs: Then started to do ILS landings as much as possible

- T+100 hrs: Came across with Tom Risager's tutorial, which helped me a lot, since by that time second PMDG tutorial was not released yet

- T+200 hrs: Then NGX Tutorial 2, especially good for learning FMC detailed functions. And I increased my manual flying and VFR skills.

- T+400 hrs: AoA Trainings to learn nuts and bolts of the NGX. Flying class will be starting in the next months so I expect that I will be learning lots of new stuff in that.

 

Now it is slightly more than a year that I bought NGX, and I am really delighted that it woke up my urge to flightsim again.

With planes like these I usually do the provided tutorial (the one that came with the NGX was one of the best ever) and then I always create my own 'short checklist', noting everything that has to be done (so not a real life like checklist). When I have finished that checklist in detail, I usually know how to fly the plane too. ^_^

 

BTW You can find the list I made for the NGX in this post: #34

Oh, and I used FS2Crew, good for learning the flows.

I still can't get the damned thing off the runway. :mad:

 

But seriously, Ryan's Tuts are about all you need. I have a library of printed FCOM's ,QRH, FCTM, etc., and they have great information, but every time I re-read the tuts, especially #2, something else becomes a little clearer.

 

AoA was a waste of money. (for the NGX ... all the other training is good)

AoA is a bit slow in bringing out material but they will eventually get there. You could have waited for them to release all their videos before making the purchase?

AoA is a bit slow in bringing out material but they will eventually get there. You could have waited for them to release all their videos before making the purchase?

 

AoA has released a ton of material on the NGX. None of it has anything to do with flying. They are finally getting into Flightwork, where there may be a lot of good flying information. We can only hope. It's only been 15 months.