I have never flown real aircraft so it’s likely I just don’t understand what I’m supposed to do, but I’m confused about “load” vs “activate” with approach procedures. When I have a flight plan loaded and then I set up an approach and hit “load” it always activates that leg (the approach) and skips the rest of the flight plan. Am I supposed to wait until I’m near the destination before I load the approach? My expectation (again, based on no real experience, so apologies for that) is that I’d set up the approach ahead of time as if it were part of the flight plan.
I’m curious about this aswell.
Also whenever i load a approach without a flight plan my game crash, so don’t ever do that 
If you set the approach up ahead of time as part of building the flight plan in the World Map, then it’s treated like any other waypoints. It just automatically activates in normal sequence once you reach its 1st waypoint.
This is the simplest way to do things, although not that realistic. In real life, normally you get told what approach to use once you get close. So then you’d have to load and activate it while in flight. I’m not much of a real pilot, either, but it’s my impression that in real planes, loading an approach just adds it to the end of the flightplan, and activating it is what makes the plane follow it. Sounds like the game is doing things different, with load being the same as activate. But I don’t know for sure.
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In real life the term load is just adding to you route. You typically activate the approach once you are cleared for it. There are lot of things in this game that aren’t working as they would in a real airplane.
@ryanwsims Yep, you are correct in your understanding. Should be able to just load the approach and it won’t affect your current active NAV leg. Will just be waiting at the end of your flight plan. Then whenever you are ready (normally when ATC clears you for the approach or give you a heading / vector) you hit activate. This should sequence the flight plan to the approach fix, set the course and transfer to green needles when appropriate. I would definitely recommend a bug report with ZenDesk, at least concerning the part about automatically activating the leg when you load it.
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At this point in time activating an approach appears to double back the route to the previous waypoint. Also waypoints cannot be removed so you have to let the aircraft fly the double back route… Unless you are flying manually of course.
Would like to know if anyone has fou d a way around this?
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yup. i am experiencing that too in the TBM when i load/activate, it does a 360…seems dumb. but after that, flies the procedure spot on!
You can delete waypoints in the FMC.
I tested it works and put the road in the right direction …
However, ATC still does not line me up towards the runway to start the glide. Really curious … because it is difficult with a 787 to align correctly the first time