737 Pilot in Command and Mike Rays Manual

[Trev]

I've just bought the Just FLight 737 Pilot in Command. (hasnt arrived yet tho). From the reviews I've read they all seem to say that the included manual keeps referring to Mike Rays 737 Survival check ride manual. Does anyone have the "Unofficial Boeing Glass 737 Simulator Survival Manual" by Mike Ray? Is it worth the $70 NZD?

Looking forward to trying out the 737 - my first 'serious' flight sim - ready to do some study.

Thanks

trev

[deeknow]

QUOTE (Trev @ Jan 15 2009, 07:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Does anyone have the "Unofficial Boeing Glass 737 Simulator Survival Manual" by Mike Ray? Is it worth the $70 NZD?

Hi Trev. The 737-pic is a great product but I must say it did irk me a bit to find the manual it comes with was missing critical details you only get in Mikes manual. The basics are covered in the aircraft manual but if you're interested in doin the odd cold-n-dark startup or really want to get to grips with the FMC then you really need the extra detail from Mikes manual.

Mike's manual is well written and covers lots of detail that is common to various Boeing sims, even if it is padded out with too many cutesy comments and illustrations from my point of view, but it really is a heck of a lot of money so I'd think twice about buying it (unless money is no object in which case you should definately buy it to save time) See what you can discover with the base manual and thru experimenting in the aircraft for awhile then go looking for youtube videos and web page tutorials and forum posts coz there's lots of free info out there too

[Chairman]

Trev,

Hunt down a copy of Craig Read's tutorial for the PMDG 747. The procedures are (obviously) 747 specific, but the 747 does rather depend on you being able to drive the FMC, so a very large part of the manual is about how to drive the autoflight systems and the FMC.

As luck would have it one Honeywell FMC is very much like another, so the bits of Craig's tutorial that are about the 747 FMC (i.e. quite a lot of it) will be every bit as applicable to your 737PIC as they were to my LDS767 - in fact I have used it as a 767 tutorial flight

Cheers
Gary