So, I feel a bit like I'm talking to myself but I'll post the answers to questions as I learn them/figure them out for those that are interested.


CaptnBob wrote on Oct 24^th, 2008 at 7:30pm:

5) I'm struggling to get the navigation radios to work.  Auto-tuning seems to pick up VORs at the last minute.  Manually tuning them doesn't seem to pick up the VORs or ILSs at all.  Any insight as to how to make the nav radios work correctly?

It turns out that you need to have FS's Avionics Master Switch turned on to make the NAV radios work.  This is quite confusing since the 757 does not have an Avionics Master Switch.  I was encountering this problem because I started the 757 from a cold and dark cockpit setup from the default Cessna 172.   To fix the problem, I assigned a key (CTRL-SHIFT-A, in my case) to the Avionics Master Switch.  After I start FS, I press this key combination and the NAV radios (VORs, ILS, etc.) works just fine.  

Bob