PMDG 737-800 NGX · MSFS · Virtual Type School

Fly the 737 like you went to type school.

The 737 is the airplane you'll log more hours in than any other — every short hop, every line, it keeps showing up. So learn it the way the people who fly it for a living learned it: cold, gate to gate, until it's second nature. 21 systems lessons, 8 routes flown gate to gate in the sim — the first one Gatwick to Rotterdam — and 62 LineWork legs: a full season in the right seat. Cold-and-dark to autoland, on video, at real-time pace. The forty pages of the FCOM that actually fly the airplane, in the order you'd fly them.

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112
Video lessons
109h 02m
Runtime
8
Real-world routes
 
Sample lesson · Aircraft Lighting
Why this exists

You can spend 40 hours on YouTube and still freeze when the FMC asks you to reroute over the Atlantic.

01

The FCOM is 1,400 pages and it wasn't written for you.

It was written for type-rated airline crews who already know the airplane. You need the forty pages that actually fly it, in the order you'd fly them. That's GroundWork — 21 video lessons, 9h 25m, taught the way an airline trains it.

02

YouTube taught you the buttons. Not the airplane.

Forty creators, forty teaching styles, zero syllabus. You can program a SID but you don't know why your VNAV jumped to PTH on the step climb. FlightWork is one syllabus, 8 real-world routes flown gate to gate in the sim — 30h 13m of narrated, real-time flying. Then LineWork keeps going: 62 more legs of real-world line operations, flown the way a training captain would run them.

03

Most paid courses stop at the FMC intro and call it training.

They show you which key to press. They don't teach you when to intervene, what 'normal' feels like on a four-hour leg, or what the airplane is telling you when the EICAS goes amber thirty miles out.

Every lesson is video — captured inside the sim cockpit, at real-time pace, with the PMDG panels you'll actually fly.
Every lesson, every flight — fully visible

Three video courses. Systems, flying, and a full season on the line. Done the way type school does them.

No playlists, no rabbit holes — one syllabus that takes you from a cold flight deck to a working line pilot, in the order an airline would teach it. 21 systems lessons in GroundWork (9h 25m). 8 narrated real-world routes flown gate to gate in FlightWork (30h 13m). 62 LineWork legs of real-world line operations, flown the way a training captain would run them (69h 18m).

01 737 GroundWork · 21 video lessons · 9h 27m 7 systems groups · 21 lessons

Systems taught the way a real training department would teach them.

Two CFM56s and everything they drive — electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic — explained the way you'd actually need to know it on the line, not the way the 1,400-page book buries it.

AEngines & APU2 lessons · 58:23
01Engines36:08
02APU22:15
BElectrical1 lesson · 33:38
03Electrical System33:38
CFuel1 lesson · 32:54
04Fuel System32:54
DAir Systems3 lessons · 1h 07m
05Bleed Air System21:51
06Air Conditioning19:25
07Pressurization25:20
EFlight Controls & Gear4 lessons · 1h 53m
08Hydraulic System33:00
09Primary Flight Controls36:57
10Secondary Flight Controls20:35
11Landing Gear and Brakes22:25
FFMC, Autoflight & Instruments3 lessons · 1h 04m
12Autoflight20:30
13FMC17:48
14Flight Instruments25:20
GSafety & Warning Systems7 lessons · 3h 19m
15Aircraft Lighting17:37
16Caution & Warning24:56
17Emergency Equipment16:27
18Fire Protection29:47
19Ice & Rain30:16
20GPWS54:07
21TCAS26:07
02 737 FlightWork · 29 video lessons · 30h 11m Setup + 8 full flights

Full flights flown gate to gate, narrated in real time, the way a training captain would teach them.

00Setup & Pre-Flight6 lessons · 3h 23m
01Pre-FlightWork Kneeboard04:44
02Pre-FlightWork Addons25:02
03Pre-FlightWork PMDG Options51:29
04Pre-FlightWork Obstacle Course38:45
05Pre-FlightWork FSUIPC1h 02m
06Pre-FlightWork TrackIR21:24
01Flight 13 lessons · 5h 07m
07FlightWork 1 Preflight1h 16m
08FlightWork 1 Pre-Pushback2h 18m
09FlightWork 1 Post Pushback1h 33m
02Flight 22 lessons · 2h 50m
10FlightWork 2 Preflight32:41
11FlightWork 22h 17m
03Flight 33 lessons · 2h 38m
12FlightWork 3 Preflight23:15
13FlightWork 3 Part 11h 08m
14FlightWork 3 Part 21h 07m
04Flight 43 lessons · 4h 07m
15FlightWork 4 Preflight22:03
16FlightWork 4 Part 12h 27m
17FlightWork 4 Part 21h 18m
05Flight 53 lessons · 3h 48m
18FlightWork 5 Preflight16:40
19FlightWork 5 Part 11h 45m
20FlightWork 5 Part 21h 46m
06Flight 63 lessons · 3h 30m
21FlightWork 6 Preflight32:03
22FlightWork 6 Part 11h 30m
23FlightWork 6 Part 21h 28m
07Flight 73 lessons · 3h 01m
24FlightWork 7 Preflight20:34
25FlightWork 7 Part 11h 21m
26FlightWork 7 Part 21h 19m
08Flight 83 lessons · 1h 47m
27FlightWork 8 Preflight10:34
28FlightWork 8 Part 150:00
29FlightWork 8 Part 246:44
03 737 LineWork · 62 video lessons · 69h 07m Line operations · checkride + Flights 2–58

Sixty-two legs. A full season in the right seat — the reps that turn a checklist-reader into someone who just flies the airplane. A checkride, an LOE, the missed approaches and the normal ones, flown end to end the way a training captain runs a line trip. This is the season.

01Checkride2 lessons · 3h 25m
01LineWork Checkride Flight 11h 37m
02LineWork Checkride Flight 21h 48m
02Flights 2–2016 lessons · 25h 38m
03LineWork Flight 22h 12m
04LineWork Flight 32h 25m
05LineWork Flight 41h 57m
06LineWork Flight 52h 06m
07LineWork Flight 62h 42m
08LineWork Flight 82h 33m
09LineWork Flight 92h 11m
10LineWork Flight 102h 00m
11LineWork Flight 1349:01
12LineWork Flight 1457:26
13LineWork Flight 1545:52
14LineWork Flight 161h 15m
15LineWork Flight 1728:12
16LineWork Flight 1859:01
17LineWork Flight 191h 01m
18LineWork Flight 201h 16m
03Flights 21–2810 lessons · 6h 53m
19LineWork Flight 2143:51
20LineWork Flight 22 LOE Part 157:10
21LineWork Flight 22 LOE Part 234:10
22LineWork Flight 2352:28
23LineWork Flight 2430:54
24LineWork Flight 2538:32
25LineWork Flight 2641:13
26LineWork Flight 2738:32
27LineWork Flight 28 (copy)38:02
28LineWork Flight 2838:02
04Flights 29–4319 lessons · 17h 23m
29LineWork Flight 29 (Normal)49:01
30LineWork Flight 29 Part 129:39
31LineWork Flight 29 Part 2 (Normal)19:29
32LineWork Flight 29 Part 3 (Missed)52:12
33LineWork Flight 29 Part 4 (Missed)22:40
34LineWork Flight 3040:33
35LineWork Flight 3143:42
36LineWork Flight 3249:50
37LineWork Flight 331h 52m
38LineWork Flight 341h 20m
39LineWork Flight 351h 16m
40LineWork Flight 3657:50
41LineWork Flight 3748:21
42LineWork Flight 381h 21m
43LineWork Flight 3948:51
44LineWork Flight 4048:50
45LineWork Flight 411h 07m
46LineWork Flight 4252:57
47LineWork Flight 431h 03m
05Flights 44–5310 lessons · 11h 22m
48LineWork Flight 441h 20m
49LineWork Flight 452h 23m
50LineWork Flight 461h 59m
51LineWork Flight 4738:07
52LineWork Flight 4821:34
53LineWork Flight 491h 02m
54LineWork Flight 5033:35
55LineWork Flight 5132:47
56LineWork Flight 521h 35m
57LineWork Flight 5356:48
06Flights 54–585 lessons · 4h 27m
58LineWork Flight 5441:01
59LineWork Flight 5528:42
60LineWork Flight 5639:38
61LineWork Flight 571h 43m
62LineWork Flight 5854:23
737 flight deck SIM DECK · PMDG 737-800 NGX
Fig.1

The sim deck. Six glass panels, two CDUs, a pedestal that does exactly what you tell it — once you know what to tell it.

737 on short final SHORT FINAL · ILS
Fig.2

Stabilized by a thousand feet — on speed, on profile. The boring approach is the one you earned. Everything in the 200 miles before it is what FlightWork and LineWork drill into you.

What one membership actually unlocks

You came for the 737. You're walking out with the whole hangar.

The 737 is one doorway into the library. The same membership opens every airplane we teach — six type schools plus two airmanship programs, one price. Start the NextGen today, fly the Queen of the Skies next month, never pay again.

737NextGenShort / medium haul workhorse
747Queen of the SkiesFour-engine long haul
767767Twin-aisle long haul
777Triple-SevenUltra-long-haul heavy
787DreamlinerComposite long haul
MD-11MD-11Three-engine classic
ProAviatorProAdvanced airmanship program
90Aviator90Foundations program · free with signup

Here's what changes. The reroute over the Atlantic stops being the moment you freeze and becomes the moment you reach for the CDU without thinking. The amber caution stops being a small panic and becomes a checklist you already know. That's what a hundred-plus lessons gate to gate buys you that watching one clip never will. One membership gets you there — on the 737 and every other airplane in the hangar.

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A real-world 737 type rating costs $30,000. Your membership covers eight airplanes — for $99 a year.

Virtual Type School for the 737 — and every other airplane in the FlyAOAmedia library — on one membership.

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One membership unlocks the whole hangar — 737, 747, 767, 777, 787, MD-11, AviatorPro, Aviator90. Every airplane we ship from here forward, included. Want a free taste first? Aviator90 is 100% free with a signup.

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The questions we actually get.

Does one membership really unlock all eight airplanes?
Yes. Monthly, Yearly, and Lifetime all unlock the entire fleet — 737, 747, 767, 777, 787, MD-11, AviatorPro, and Aviator90. There is no per-airplane purchase. Join once and the whole hangar opens.
Which simulators does this work with?
Every lesson on this page is taught on the PMDG 737-800 NGX in MSFS — the add-on sim pilots actually fly. Across the rest of the fleet it's PMDG, Level-D, QualityWings and the like, on MSFS, X-Plane, P3D and FSX depending on the airplane. You bring the sim and the add-on; we bring the training.
Is this real flight training?
No — this is Virtual Type School for the sim. We teach the systems and procedures of each airplane the way a real training department would, captured inside the sim cockpit at real-time pace. It earns you no real-world certificate or rating. What it earns you is knowing the airplane cold before you ever touch the throttles.
What if it isn't for me?
Request a refund inside 30 days of joining and we'll return every dollar — Monthly, Yearly, or Lifetime. We're a small team, so it's good-faith only: members who consume the substantial majority of the curriculum and then ask for a refund won't qualify. Full terms are in the footer.