Yep, I'll be doing that Marcel. I'll be experimenting with shutter speed and aperture - mainly the latter, to cope with aircraft against a (hopefully!) bright sky, but I'll also try some on full auto. I've never really been a fan of auto, but having had a 'play' with the camera at Manchester airport, it seems to cope reasonably well.
And as for taking lots of shots - I always do (and did, even with film cameras).
If just one shot in a sequence is usable, I'm happy, and with digital, there's no problem running out of film, or having the expense of processing loads of film! (OK, once upon a time it didn't cost me anything to have them processed, but it was still a pain!). In the days when I used to produce twin, or multi-projector AV shows, to obtain the average 160 transparencies required normally entailed making around 400 or more exposures.
Of course, I'll get used to the camera the more I use it, but if I was to have one criticism, it would be that too much information is displayed, spread around different parts of the screen (or viewfinder), much of which is not needed. But once I become accustomed to what's what, and how to switch between the various modes and options, it should become second nature - I hope. At the moment, I'm still wanting to change aperture, for example, on the lens barrel, when everything is selected by the various menu buttons., but, with practice, and use, this should come naturally eventually.