Ive am familiar with the 737 and 747. Am tempted to jump in the deep end and fly the plane as soon as I can buy it but maybe I should spend a day or two reading the manuals and tutorial first?

Well FS2 crew wont have their voice companion out for a little while after release, so you would be flying solo. The 777 is incredibly automated so the checklist are probably even shorter than the 737's. I have actually sat in the jump seat of an chartered Continental 777 from push-back until landing. Preflight was very fast and there was minimal switches used. You could always google 777 cold and dark procedures, and knowing how to program a Boeing-specific FMC will surely help. 

Do some testing, stalls in different configurations, steep turns over a non populated area of course and then an hour of circuits followed by a 12 hour flight, since you are already "pmdg rated" you should be able to fine tune and refer to the manuals whilst flying, its much more interesting that way

Off course i will fly it straight away, havent been waiting around for months for nothing!!

 

I wanna get my grubby little paws on her!

 

Yum Yum cant wait!

 

Manuals those i will read when i get stuck! lol

I'll probably do like I did with the NGX, read through the tutorial, then fly the first flight with the tutorial open on a second monitor, with my own route replacing the one in the tutorial.

Good points, Ill probably read the manual to get to know all the new features (I wasnt even aware of the turnaround function until recently) and I dont want to miss out on anything. Then I'll do the tutorial and then fly the delivery flight to EGKK.

Do some testing, stalls in different configurations...

 

You don't practice stalls in airliners, ever. The 777 is not a light prop.

I have been reading the SmartCockpit manuals for some time now. So I feel that I have a good first pass on the B777.

 

But with the initial software I would like to do a lot of ground testing of the procedures and some restarts in-flight to ensure that I am comfortable with manual approaches. Then I shall attempt my delivery flight KPAE-EGLL and hope that I don't cock up too many things.

 

Well, that's the plan, anyways!

I think i will read the manual first then venture to a few circuits and so on . PMDG must spend hours producing the manuals the least we could do is read them.

 

Steve

The first thing I will do like I always do with new PMDG releases is just load up the plane at some airport, immediately apply full thrust, takeoff with all alarm bells sounding, get into the air, then drewl at the VC, sounds, and flight dynamics. 

Next day I will do the tutorial flight. LOL

The first thing I will do like I always do with new PMDG releases is just load up the plane at some airport, immediately apply full thrust, takeoff with all alarm bells sounding, get into the air, then drewl at the VC, sounds, and flight dynamics. 

 

Next day I will do the tutorial flight. LOL

Love your style lol

Yes.

LAX - Honolulu

You don't practice stalls in airliners, ever. The 777 is not a light prop.

well sir you will never be in the same class as TEX Johnson then!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE

Do some testing, stalls in different configurations, steep turns over a non populated area of course and then an hour of circuits followed by a 12 hour flight, since you are already "pmdg rated" you should be able to fine tune and refer to the manuals whilst flying, its much more interesting that way

Have a look in this thread for a functional check flight example that would be a good familiarization with the 777.

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/416154-flight-and-ground-testing-forms/#entry2756334

 

 

Am tempted to jump in the deep end and fly the plane as soon as I can buy it but maybe I should spend a day or two reading the manuals and tutorial first?

 

Just fly the tutorial, and then once you're done with that, try a flight using what you've learned.  The 777 being a long haul aircraft, you'll have plenty of time to read the manuals at cruise.

 

As mentioned, the 777 is a highly automated aircraft, so you'll note you don't feel overly burdened with things to do (particularly in comparison with the NGX).

 

To get a feel for it, you can take a look at my first 777 video and just keep in mind everything you normally do with the 737:

 

 

 

well sir you will never be in the same class as TEX Johnson then!

 

That's a little different.  Flying an aircraft to its limits is different from stalling the aircraft.  Stalling an aircraft it putting it outside of its limits (a stall is when the plane stops flying, after all).

 

Actually stalling a transport category aircraft could get you killed quite quickly.  I hate to reference crashes, but the CJC3407 incident illustrates the point very well.  The plane stalled and inverted, and its wings aren't even swept.  Add wing sweep to that (affects controlability) and you have a recipe for disaster.

 

Straight wings like those on many Cessnas and Pipers stall root out, giving you some aileron control through the stall.  Swept wings stall tip in, meaning you're losing your directional control earlier than the stall break, and when it finally breaks, you're at the mercy of physics.