Nice
Very good guide and quite helpful.
But, after reading, I just miss some How to.

Setting Hud to SOI use coolie up, or U on the keyboard, or in my case a key programmed to a cougar throttle key
Setting the left TAD as SOI use the coolie hat long left or H on the keyboard.
Setting the right DSMS as SOI use the coolie hat long right or K on the keyboard.

Info like keyboard layout or HOTAS functions does not give that info.

Thanks for sharing.

Do you have any help for a keyboard command to start the engine?
I got the anti-collision strobe to flash and the tower tells me its ok to start,
but I don't get a windowed message in the upper left of the screen.
The keyboard command for engine start does nothing.

I have a Saitek X-52 Hotas

I noticed that some key commands in the audio tutorials have changed in the default key list.

Now that is unnecessary.

Great job, Ice!

I'd like to put in a request for Programming your TiVo and Coffee Maker: An Idiot's Guide to the CDU.

I can't make heads or tails of it in the manual because the green on black displays don't translate well to the printed page, and when I'm in the plane I don't know what is or isn't there. I may just have to put the PDF on my Kindle and read the section that way, but then I'm looking at smaller print on a technically dense topic, which can be a bad combination for anything except insomnia.

Ironically, I used the same CDU when I was operational, though it was nonstandard in the aircraft (therefore no NATOPS) and wasn't an integrated system, so I never used it for anything other than a GPS position fix.