Sorry - that I don’t know! I don’t know too much about the aircraft outside of the sound realm! 
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re Landing Gear assignments…
From the PMDG forum the following has been suggested as a solution for the Honeycomb Bravo. I’m sure it will work (and you can extrapolate it to your own controller) although I haven’t had chance to try it myself yet. To be clear, buttons 31 and 32 relate to the Honeycomb Bravo only.
GEAR UP - Joystick Button 32 - ON RELEASE
GEAR DOWN - Joystick Button 31 - ON RELEASE
What you’re effectively doing is flipping the control to work upside down, to do it’s thing when the switch/lever is moved from it’s present position. In other words when you move the gear lever away from the down position it will raise the gear. Traditionally it would trigger when the button/lever reached the ‘up’ position.
Note you will still have to set the gear to OFF using the mouse but other than that it should work just fine.
Edited to add I have now tried this and can confirm it does work. Happy days!
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I had no need for anything so complicated on my first actual flight yesterday. I used the usual Gear Up button assigned on my yoke, then simply clicked the gear down to the neutral position with the mouse. Similarly, when landing I did the same.
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Stupid question, but where are the manuals? All I can find is a document that describes the artificial PDMG specific sim stuff and a tutorial that doesn’t even start cold & dark.
Is that it? No actual manuals on how to operate the airplane? Checklists, performance data, operations manual? If so I expected a bit more from a company called “Precision Manuals Development Group”. If this is a study level airplane then where is the “study” part? Flying should be the icing on the cake.
Considering it’s not there, what are the best sources of information? Preferably something organized and wholesome not youtube videos or tutorials covering one happy path.
Extensive checklists are built-in to the sim. There are abbreviated checklists available in numerous places online, including a really nice PDF from British Avgeek on his website. Airline FCOMs (Flight Crew Operations Manuals) and handbooks are available via Google searches.
The 737-700 is not a new plane so resources abound.
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Apparently Boeing now prevent PMDG issuing the FCOM and QRH. However i found both quickly via Google. They are big (2600+) pages between them, but obviously you only need to look at the bits you need. Fill checklists and procedures are there.
Try searching google for Boeing 737 FCOM and Boeing 737 QRH
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Thanks for that. Still I would expect an addon developer to provide some kind of manuals and guides about the airplane. Maybe not almost 3000 pages, but a few hundred. Explaining the basic systems, operational procedures etc.
Freeware WT CJ4 or FBW 320 have them, so I would expect it from a 70$ study level addon. I haven’t bought many addon airplanes in my life, but the ones I have had extensive (developer written) manuals. I expected the same from a company that literally has manuals in the name. They did create ones for the DC-6.
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I got my first complex airliner training from the PMDG 737 back in FS2004 times, so I learned most from that. While I patiently waited for the PMDG 737 for MSFS, I started learning the FBW A320. I actually miss the simplicity of the A320. I never realized how many redudant knobs and levers are on the 737…
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I don’t disagree, i was a little disappointed too. However the online versions are the real thing and actually reasonably accessible once you figure out how they are organised.
PMDG did some YouTube videos too, but have stopped short of full tutorials as they said they believed that others would do that and they wouldn’t step on their toes. That felt like a cop out to me
Yes, after one restart it should always be fine like other aircraft (except maybe if there is an update).
It should just effect the first time you load up the aircraft.
So the recommendation would be to restart if it is your very first flight after install or if there is an update.
See PMDG_737_MSFS_Introduction document page 36 section:
First Time Load After Install May Have Unexpected Problems
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For those who want documentation, I don’t particularly disagree.
However, I do urge you to take advantage of the resources available. The PMDG “Quick Bites” videos, for instance, are not in depth tutorials, but overall do serve as a good general orientation of things. Specifically, how the Operations Center works, how to set airframe-specific options in FMC, etc. If you’ve watched those, the (118 page) Introduction doc is a very good supplement and fills in the gaps.
As for actually flying the plane, there are indeed numerous “PMDG-authorized” tutorials out there. British Avgeek has a 3-part tutorial series on the very basics, and 737NG Driver, a member of PMDG’s Tech Team and actual 737 pilot IRL, has a 10 part (?) set of tutorials covering everything from setting up a flight plan to taxing and parking after you land.
Between the above and 5 minutes asking Professor Google, you ought to have more than enough to chew on.
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Thanks for those suggestions, very helpful. I agree the Intro doc is very useful and the options videos - in fact I think those two probably cover 95% of the questions arising in this thread 
The 737NG Driver series looks like around 25 videos and looks very helpful indeed
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I know he’s been adding videos in response to viewer requests. He’s also done several two-segment livestreams of several hours each, which are nice background material to put on (for those of us who work from home at least, lol).
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Well… So now I know it didn’t apply to you as you indeed use different hardware. 
Good of you to check in.
He is, I’ve watched all of them. I used to think the Boeing flight deck was a little convoluted and cluttered when compared to the Airbus but he makes it quite easy to understand and it actually now seems fairly intuitive to me. So I’d definitely recommend people spend some time watching them. He’s a real world 737NG pilot.
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Will have to try that myself then. Thanks
FMC and flight route programming, first try 
Holy cow(flaps) the Boeing FMC is intuitive and superb to use.
But oops still a mistake: The flight plan ends at the first STAR. Little errors happen, and programming that non-intuitive Airbus FMC was waaay worse and took a few evenings of tutorial videos and trying.
The Boeing FMC is a dream!
And superb intuitive and easy to learn.
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Same. Flickering. Strange they didn’t notice that issue before release. But some bugs are expected in a complex aircraft like this.