Tips to get a new Flight Simmer going

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Looking for a few tips to get me going. I'm getting to grips with FS 2004
and have also bought FS Global SE.

Here is where I am. Have got to grips with the basics of flying and have
gone through some of the Flying Lessons
which were helpful.
I'm struggling a little with Navigation. There is just a whole load of info
to take in which I guess takes time.
For example I keep seeing VOR and ILS frequencies which seem to be outwith
the range I can tune the radio to.
I'm probably missing something - something to do with High/Low Altitude...
???

Where I'd Like to be.... or where I think I'd like to be.

- Better understanding of nav including VOR and GPS.
- Better (i.e. realistic) airport scenery.
- Improvements/Realism of plane AI - for example British Airways planes at
LHR. More realistic amount of traffic.
- Better understanding of ATC communications (both meaning of messages and
usage). I sometimes find the plane on the runway and the ATC is telling me
to contact
it once I'm ready to take-off - but I can't work out how to do so.
- Understanding of how the scenery add-ons work. There seems to be a number
of methods of achieving the same thing
which is a little confusing.

So any good pointers to good sites for beginners to help with the basics
above and maybe sites which have additional scenery addons?
I guess there are a multitude of forums which have probably endlessly
answered question from clueless newbies like myself before!

Any help much appreciated.

Pete

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"Pete"
> - Better understanding of nav including VOR and GPS.

Here's a great little site for that:

http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/index.htm

Dallas