Any assistance on creating, inputting and flying a flight plan or even editing a FS plan would be appreciated. 

Also flew the A320 today, all good with ATC till half way through, no further atc instructions received and aircraft did not commence descent as per F/P, any thoughts?

Thanks

Raknal

At its current state not all features are fully implemented on the A320. VNAV does not work as you would expect.

The is a TOD arrow and you can select a managed decent but for me it descends at a crazy rate. Hopefully more/better functionality will be added as the sim matures.

Are your system specs still current that you have in your signature?

1 hour ago, michaelray said:

Are your system specs still current that you have in your signature?

No vastly different, unsure how to change them, however still after help with flight planning

1 hour ago, raknal said:

Any assistance on creating, inputting and flying a flight plan or even editing a FS plan would be appreciated. 

Also flew the A320 today, all good with ATC till half way through, no further atc instructions received and aircraft did not commence descent as per F/P, any thoughts?

Thanks

Raknal

The simplest way would be to use the inbuilt flight planner. Choose departure and arrival airports either directly from the map, or from the search boxes. For a cold and dark start, choose a gate to start from rather than the runway.On the left side of the flight planner window you can choose from a GPS direct route, low level airways, or high level airways. Next to the departure and arrival airport search boxes, you can choose a specific departure and approach or have them automatically assigned.

Click on the airplane that you will be flying and you can choose a call sign, flight number, and other items, including weight and cg information.

ATC is not bug-free and may either forget you or forget to give you clearance to climb to cruise altitude. One potential workaround, if the option is available from your ATC menu, is to refile the flight plan while en route.

While the flight plan you built using the built in flight planner will be entered into the A320 FMGC for you, it is still your responsibility to provide appropriate commands to the autopilot to fly it (or you can fly it manually). For example, the airplane will not commence a climb or descent by itself. You need to put the altitude to climb or descend to and then (don't forget this step) select the "selected altitude" or "managed altitude" mode associated with the altitude knob on the FCU (akin to pushing or pulling the knob)

33 minutes ago, Donstim said:

The simplest way would be to use the inbuilt flight planner. Choose departure and arrival airports either directly from the map, or from the search boxes. For a cold and dark start, choose a gate to start from rather than the runway.On the left side of the flight planner window you can choose from a GPS direct route, low level airways, or high level airways. Next to the departure and arrival airport search boxes, you can choose a specific departure and approach or have them automatically assigned.

Click on the airplane that you will be flying and you can choose a call sign, flight number, and other items, including weight and cg information.

ATC is not bug-free and may either forget you or forget to give you clearance to climb to cruise altitude. One potential workaround, if the option is available from your ATC menu, is to refile the flight plan while en route.

While the flight plan you built using the built in flight planner will be entered into the A320 FMGC for you, it is still your responsibility to provide appropriate commands to the autopilot to fly it (or you can fly it manually). For example, the airplane will not commence a climb or descent by itself. You need to put the altitude to climb or descend to and then (don't forget this step) select the "selected altitude" or "managed altitude" mode associated with the altitude knob on the FCU (akin to pushing or pulling the knob)

Thanks for that info. However I use simbrief or PFPS to build my plans and just trying to figure out how to input a simbrief plan into FS2020 if I dont want to use the built in planner

25 minutes ago, raknal said:

Thanks for that info. However I use simbrief or PFPS to build my plans and just trying to figure out how to input a simbrief plan into FS2020 if I dont want to use the built in planner

Can't yet.  I've tried.  You can enter it yourself if you want into the FMGS.

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by VBHB

24 minutes ago, VBHB said:

Can't yet.  I've tried.  You can enter it yourself if you want into the FMGS.

From the world map screen, you are selecting load/save flight, then trying to load an externally generated flight plan? What happens when you try to load an externally generated flight plan? Do you get an error message, or does it just fail to load?

I thought you were supposed to be able to do that. I just haven't tried it yet.