KriszBito

Hi,No offence at all and I do agree I need more training too. I just tried to suggest some steps the way I've done things, but sorry again if I misled anyone.btw my name is Krisz Bito will sort out my profile too.

Hi Molly,185kt approach speed sound quite high, that means your aircraft is quite happy if not overweight for landing. I suggest to use a first few times an empty aircraft ie no cargo/ no passengers. The fuel load should be realistic too which is hard to get it right without using any fuel planner tool. Without such a tool I suggest to load the aircraft with no cargo/ no passenger no fuel at all, then enter everything in the FMC, then go back to the PMDG Load tool and start adding fuel load to your aircraft. When you go back FSX it will show in the FMC a message the insufficient fuel, which means that FMC thinks you won't have enough to go to your destination. So go back and forth until that message disappear. Be careful when you leave FSX it will pause your simulation and in FMC you have to try to clear the warning message. If you clear it and it come back means you need more fuel, if it goes away means you have enough. The only downside would be this method doesn't calculate any wind forecast unless you entered that too in your flight plan, so if you would have a very strong headwind on a medium to long flight (few hours) then you could use all the fuel before you reach your destination. On a short trip (1-2 hours flights) it will be ok even with strong winds because FMC has plenty of reserve calculation by default, so if you not planning a go around then it will be fine.This way you will have a light aircraft so your landing speed should be around 150-160kt. Reverse trust also be careful how to use it. If you are using keyboard only you have to press F1 approx 40m above the ground during the flare. After touchdown if you press F2 you will have only idle reverse trust which means you will have some but your engines will have idle settings. to get full reverse trust keep holding down F2. when you reach 60kt ground speed you should press F1 and that's it. Auto-brake config. if you set it min you will have much less brake than in max settings, so you might have to select max on a shorter runway especially if you are heavy to stop in time. Don't forget even max auto-brake won't give you maximum braking power you have to press . and hold it down to have manual braking. So if you see after landing that your aircraft is not decelerating and the end of the runway is coming you have to use manual braking. Don't forget in FSX if you press and hold a button down then press an another the first button which you still holding down won't have any effect. So like in landing you holding the . key down to manual braking the aircraft then press F1 to stop revers trust you have to keep pressing down and holding down the . key again. That's why you should use a yoke/ joystick etc...Hope this helps