Cool IP et al, no worries, I never had the luxury of flying aircraft with advanced computer control systems and you might say I like LOU are from that era when most aircraft were developing into what they are today, that is autopilots were simple systems (like the 727 and 707 here), there were no engine control computers, no angle of attack indicators and no EFIS systems. My last flying was in a big heavy turboprop and it was very much a hybrid machine and reflected its design age. Which is why a lot of guys struggle to understand the 727 and the 707 because it takes you back to the beginning of the jet era and a lot of this sort of stuff had to be thought about by the pilot and managed properly particularly with swept wing turbine aeroplanes.

I used and taught the 3 degree profile system for years and probably because of that I am comfortable with the concepts and the need to keep it simple, after all it is really about geometry at the end of the day. I have lost count of the number of professional pilots I saw struggle with the ILS who would chase the ILS all over the place rather sticking with and understanding the basic relationship between attitude and power. Really it is about just finessing the flying by always flying an attitude first second and last. What you see on the AI is what you should see outside that is all, the trouble is that jets by and large because of the wing design, flaps etc, end up with quite high nose attitudes and when your at the end of that long lever (the fuselage) it is easy to be deluded by what your seeing as opposed to what the aeroplane is doing and showing by the instrumentation.

Anyway have a go at the method I have described, you will find with a bit of practice and it does not come automatically by the way, you will fly a lot smoother and be ahead of the aeroplane all the way, then you can really enjoy the challenges.

I might add that returning to topic about ATC, the FSX program either starts you down much to early or late and then will hang you up about half way down which makes the last descent segment really difficult, in real life ATC will be expecting you to fly the standard 3 times profile and thus not be asking you to slow down, speed up or having you stuck at a certain altitude, so it works a lot better. That is one of the reasons why I use flight following in FSX and generally forget about full ATC control as it just stuffs you around for no real good reason and you can't do things like fly a holding pattern or other manouevres as they are not programmed into FSX.

Anyway have fun.