Yup, the steering is the first surprise people come across lol. You can map a spare axis on a controller to it if you have a full on registered version of FSUIPC or stick with holding the key down to enable the steering.

 

17 minutes ago, Chock said:

Yup, the steering is the first surprise people come across lol. You can map a spare axis on a controller to it if you have a full on registered version of FSUIPC or stick with holding the key down to enable the steering.

 

Hi Alan. Wow, pay £150-odd for this so-called sophisticated advanced Airbus and have to use a key to enable steering? Wish I had known this before ! Would have passed. When I read all the praises in this thread, I thought to myself, 'Yep, sounds like an Airbus to go for'.

Luckily, I do have a fully registered latest verion of Pete's excellent, FSUIPC. Maybe you can guide me on the mapping of the steering axis, Alan? Spare axis? I only have an MSFF2 joystick, and for all other aircraft including the entire PMDG stable, I just use the Y-axis( i.e. twist the joystick column, left or right)to turn the nosewheel.

30 minutes ago, vc10man said:

Hi Alan. Wow, pay £150-odd for this so-called sophisticated advanced Airbus and have to use a key to enable steering? Wish I had known this before ! Would have passed. When I read all the praises in this thread, I thought to myself, 'Yep, sounds like an Airbus to go for'.

I wouldn't be so upset about that.  I don't have it but all they're doing is trying to simulate the tiller in a realistic way.

Actually, I don't mind having to hold down the comma key to enable nosewheel steering. I use the twist function on a joystick, which is similar enough to using a tiller. I do have a full version of FSUIPC, but I've not mapped it myself, however, if you don't like that behaviour:

You can change the 'comma' key assignment to anything you like in the FSX menu Add-ons/FSLabs/Keyboard Commands. By default, having it like that simulates the Pedal Disc function which is found in the real A320. Alternatively, in the MCDU Options, you can do the following...

On (this is the default for when you have no spare controller axis left on your controllers and no registered FSUIPC to utilise). The rudder and nosewheel are controlled with the same axis. When the Comma key not pressed, the nose wheel will turn left/right 6 degrees and the rudder will also move. When the Comma key is pressed, the nose wheel will turn left/right 75 degrees and rudder movement is disabled.

Off, you have an axis left and FSUIPC can be used to assign the control to Axis Assignment.

Thank you, Gregg and Alan. Great inputs.

A fair point, Gregg, but if an equally superior product like the latest Queen can function flawlessly, and the same applies to the tiller operation in the equally-top notch Majestic's offering, cannot see any logical reason FSL did not model the same.

Its pretty much on PMDG level in regards to system depth, but its MILES away from being as polished and "bugfree" as PMDG planes. 

the long promised SP1 is still not released and the arrogant manner of certain devs and beta testers in their forum is....well.....a bit sad

Apart from that its a great plane, but they wont see any more money from me until certain things change

 

I tend to agree with you, Lars, seeing how long this product that has won the PC Pilot Platinum Award, has been doing the rounds.

Just found a very interesting thread on this steering issue in their Forum. Great deal of info there.

Help please!!

Just tried the Tutorial that comes with this aircraft, LOWW-EKCH. Have managed to get the hang of the tiller system using the ',' key, but no matter what I tried as I was taxi-ing, I just could not slow it down using the joystick Button 1 pull-switch on my MS ForceFeedback2 joystick. I tested that same switch using the default Trike, and it slowed down, and it does so with other aircraft too, except this Airbus. So, what am I not doing correctly, or what is the trick to slow this plane? I cannot keep using the Ctrl + '.' option as that just acts like a parking brake.

12 hours ago, vc10man said:

Hi Alan. Wow, pay £150-odd for this so-called sophisticated advanced Airbus and have to use a key to enable steering? Wish I had known this before ! Would have passed. When I read all the praises in this thread, I thought to myself, 'Yep, sounds like an Airbus to go for'.

Luckily, I do have a fully registered latest verion of Pete's excellent, FSUIPC. Maybe you can guide me on the mapping of the steering axis, Alan? Spare axis? I only have an MSFF2 joystick, and for all other aircraft including the entire PMDG stable, I just use the Y-axis( i.e. twist the joystick column, left or right)to turn the nosewheel.

Luckily I have a yoke and joystick. For the A320 my yoke becomes the tiller and the joystick becomes the Airbus side stick.   Works great. 

Why am I still getting a flag to remove the [REALISM]/AutoCoord=True from the fsx.cfg when I have already done so. Is there another fsx.cfg other than in AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/FSX?

Just turn it off in your FSX settings (Realism > Autorudder).

1 minute ago, Rafal said:

Just turn it off in your FSX settings (Realism > Autorudder).

Thanks, Rafal. As you seem to be the 'ace of the base', how do I brake this plane, please?

LOL, Rick, I'm no ace whatsoever. 

I don't know about you but I use rudder pedals and generally have no problems with braking using the toe brakes.
I just had to get used to FSL A320 being much more sensitive to braking than other addon aircraft I use in FS.
I just use gentle touches. If I press the brakes too hard, the bus will stop abruptly. We were told by real world A32X drivers it is correctly depicted.
Also remember the FSL A320 has weather influence modelled, so slowing down or stopping on wet surfaces will make a difference.

Generally please read the breaking topics in the FSL A320 forum and I am sure you will find some posts refering to using the same controllers you have.
This is a magnificent addon but it is a top study sim locked in a confined space of desktop sim limitations and as such it requires a lot of love and care.
I have more than 200 flights with it and still learn new things. Each flight is somehow diverse. I had all other reasonable airbuses for FS but this one is so much different.

Rafal, seriously, I have followed your posts over the years and have found you to be one of the most helpful, so in a way, you're an 'ace' in my books!!

I only have a joystick and a keyboard. My budget does not run to rudder pedals I'm afraid. You are not kidding that this aircraft is so sensitive. I had no issues with the Aerosoft Airbus X. Took to that like a duck to water. Anyyway have managed to make my first Tutorial. Got to cruise. Wish there was a way to silence that siren, though!

Yes, I was amazed to see the WXR.

Your last two lines are more or less spot-on. This is indeed a study. Ah, well, just got to keep practising and learning. Thanks for your inputs so far.