Hehe, well I have to join the "dont know what im doing" club for now till I get a grip on the manuals descriptions of the procedures.
But I have to say that I have some unlearning to do as I have some experience with the free Space sim "Orbiter" which simulates real space physics. As I can already see FSX does not. And this product is sort of "cheating" the sim to an extent thru use of slew mode. But ya have to work with what FSX has(or has not rather)

What im unclear on the most so far is how they mean exactly to do orbital ops. It doesnt cover that in the manual other than to say that it can be done using the slew controls, but no further explanation. :-/
And I see no type of instrument on board to measure if an orbit is achieved.
And another confusing thing is that it also says to take it out of slew temporarily to operate the animations ect. but then it says not to on the entry phase or it will mess up the auto sequence thing.

So it appears that one cannot do orbital ops for an orbit or two and then do the re-entry(at least not that I can see) as it would be all messed up and out of sequence or none at all besides not having a way to know where and when to enter. Again, no instruments for that kind of computation, only the GPS's I'd really like to know more in detail about simulating orbital ops

I was tricked for a while by the CRT's on the center front panel but I now relize they arent displaying any real info, the're just for show. The real instrument for the descent is the GPS's which has to be displayed by shift+7 & shift+8. They are not on the VC panel.
Well not much more to report as I do need to spend some more time in ground school with my nose in the manuals before I attempt another dive as the one I've tried ws just that.................all the way!!!!! :o ( No I never got close to KSC....... ;D)