Hey! Thats great nav! Wonderful work!
I'm sure new-comers will appreciate this!!

That's what I need so desperately severla months ago! Well it will sure benefit others and I learnt one thing which I thought I was nuts on and that is I come in too low.

Just one thing though -  I am surprised you didn't have auto-break on.

Great job and I'm sure that will be useful for many. 8)

ya Nav i know all that, its common sense, ive taken off at 200 knots before just to see if would go up any better but it still just keeps movin along the ground with the nose up

i normally rotate at 160 knots, with a small amount of trim and flaps at one notch.

by the way ive sorted my taking off problem now, i made the rather nooby error of accidentally hitting / without realising  

willg, flap (or the lack of it) is your problem then.

Not 'one notch' for takeoff - 5 degrees. Three notches on the 737, two notches on the 747 and Triple Seven.

Please do yourself a favour - go to the Learning Centre Index, click on 'B' for Boeing, and look up the Flight Notes for any aeroplane you are planning to fly. All the settings and speeds are in there, for 'Takeoff', 'Climb', 'Cruise' etc. Save you a lot of time - at the moment you seem always to be 'learning the hard way'.

I've revised this to explain the initial phase of lining up with the localiser, which still seems to attract a lot of 'Help!' threads. 

Also redone the screenshots to make them clearer - the first lot had got thoroughly 'chewed up' - and added a few more tips.

Any feedback on things that still aren't clear, or other FS subjects that people would like me to try to cover, would be welcome.

That diagram is GREAT, willg. Guess that, now you've started drawing things out and writing them down, you're a fellow addict now.   You'll be READING stuff next...  

There's an old flying school joke you may not have encountered yet. Someone will ask you why they make you read an eye-chart before they give you a licence. You'll say, of course, that it's because they need to be sure that you can see clearly, for 'safety', like.

"Not so," they'll say. "It's 'cos they want to be sure that you can read all the laws and regulations and prohibitions and 'pilot's notes' and complicated approach charts they're going to throw at you by the truckload for the rest of your natural bloody life........"

Glad I thought of trying screenies - judging by the number of views this thread is getting, they seem to work a bit. It's often quite difficult to explain to people how to fly, just in words.

Imagine that you were trying to write down instructions on how to ride a bike - including how to turn. And then someone writes back and says, "I think I understand. But about turning - do I move the handlebars first, or lean over first?"

Good for you, anyway, glad you're getting it taped. The next step is to turn off the auto-controls earlier and earlier, until you can fly the whole approach VFR. Then you can go anywhere, whether or not the airports have ILS.