I’m going to be transitioning onto this type. Wondering if anybody has any valuable tips and tricks please especially with the FMS.
Presumably you will do the type rating in the simulator. That being so, ask the instructor to teach you how to hand fly on raw data using manual throttles. That means lots of touch and go circuits. Forget using the flight director at this stage. In other words learn to fly the aircraft first before getting overwhelmed with computer programming which you can learn during line training.
Much depends on the attitude of your simulator instructors. Most tend to start off with full use of the automatics and precious little basic hand flying. That is usually because they lack the ability to fly manually themselves. If you are having touble with landings in the simulator then ask the instructor to demonstrate how to land. A picture is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately few simulator instructors will chance their arm at a physical demonstration in case they stuff it up.
Unless you learn to fly the machine first you will quickly lose confidence in your ability to fly the aeroplane without all the automatics goodies. The worst addiction you will have is blind reliance on the flight director. It is vital you have equal competency at both hand flying raw data and monitoring the automatics. You should aim to have the skill to seamlessly switch from automatics to hand flying without having a panicky moment. Unless you can do that your confidence will be shot and automatics will become your crutch.