Thanks Mark.

I see that speed is everything with landing this baby.  A few knots too many on a manual landing and you're halfway down the runway at touchdown!

I flew this plane most of the day yesterday.  It is great when ity all goes smoothly, but I have some weird things that happen.  

According to Jon M's tutorial, when I put 250 into the speed window on the MCP,  the VNAV logic in the CDU is supposed to honor that restriction until I get to 10000feet.  On my first few flights, this seemed to work, but the last few, it can't seem to manage it.  More like 270.  Maybe it is running out of elevator authority.

The CDU also changes all my speeds in the Legs page to 315 after takeoff.  I was flying from Chicago to St Louis at fl280, and several of the legs were displayed as ".80/280" in the Legs page after CDU programming was complete.   But they all changed speed to 315 by themselves.   So then when I get to altitude, I have to do your left-click on the speed knob trick to get a cruise speed of .80.

Also, somehow now my marker beacon audio is sounding on takeoff.  Where are the controls for the audio for marker beacons?  

If I want to do FLCH mode to climb instead of VNAV, will the thrust settings for climb still change from Takeoff to Climb automatically?  Or do I have to do that manually?

Thanks again for all your help, Mark.   These CS planes are great (I have 727,737, and now this 777) but there is no way I could have got them working without you and the other great people on these forums who spend a lot of time helping us to get the most out of them.