well, there is another perspective of that mock knobs and "dead" procedures. im ordinary guy, never touched the sky in real life (except i logged some time as my butt slowly decended on parachute from 3000ft once, and i flied tu-134 and tu-154 when i was a child and M.Gorbachev did perestroyka ) And i never dreamed to be a pilot.  I love my job and what im doing now, but sometimes i need rest. It happens that i got into aviation via old fs5.1, fs98, films, reading, - so flying jurassic jet in FSX - works for me :D "Dig into" all aspects of being a pilot is huge part of fun. Ground flight planning, fuel calculation, "mock" procedures, - more i do, deeper i get involved into it, = more fun, better rest. I know that i dont need all that knobs and tables to fly it but they a very atmospheric nuts :))
so for me skipping it = major loss of funtime. So even knowing they dont have effect, i dont skip it.

I'd like to see that knobs all working as it should, but well...i guess nothing ideal :) maybe next version will be much kooler   8-)


P.S. From "go for realism" buyer perspective i agree that there is need to mark what really works in model, and what not. but if that done, splitting the manual for "working\ mock" not required then.