JayL

Just read your turtorial for the first time of likely many, thanks for pointing that out to me, it's just what I needed. @hook Yeah pretty sure I'm high enough, but I am going to pay more attention to the right agl altitude. I find myself leaning closer to the screen and saying "crap i'm way off" haha. Didn't think about the top down for landing, I have been using it to find the right taxiway.

Hello, another new guy. I would consider myself mostly a casual flight simmer, I enjoyed FS9 and FSX, but haven't flown a virtual plane in a few years. A few times I wanted to load up FSX again, along with all my Flight1 and PMDG stuff, but my version wouldn't install on my system, so I dropped it. A friend and I were talking one day about how great it would be if MS made a new flight sim. I decided to google, and ha, they are! And it's out in like a month! I were excited. And still am, I *love* Flight. I think MS has done a great job so far, it looks fantastic, and I can't wait to see what it's like in another year or two when they have had time to beef it up. In FS9 and FSX, I never bothered with "small" planes. The only flying I actually did was to taxi my PMDG plane to the runway, hit the throttle, get it off the ground, then hit the AP and let it land itself however many thousands of miles away, in the meantime not really having touched anything in the cockpit, much less actually fly the plane. Well Flight has forced me to learn to actually fly the things. ^^ And I enjoy it quite a bit. I've learned how to trim the plane for hands off flight, and capture the ILS using instruments, follow the glideslope using the lights, etc. I've done the landing challenges, including the hover-land at the observatory which was awesome, all the missions, aerocaches (except the fl80 one)... I'm bouncing in my chair for Alaska. What I am having trouble with, is figuring out how to approach an airport that doesn't have ILS, so that I'm lined up with a runway. I check the job board to see what I wanna do, then exit to the map to see what direction the destination runways are facing, and altitude. I then head in the general direction, aim either to the left or right of the destination, then turn towards it in hopes I am somewhat close to the direction the runway is facing. Rarely do I hit it on the nose, it's usually a fair distance off. It doesn't let you use the map during a mission, I'm assuming so you can't click n' drag your plane, so I really have no idea how to tell where to turn to line up. Sometimes I end up just flying past it and turning in the right direction, fly out a mile or so, then turn a sharp 180 and land. So... what am I not doing?