Hi,

I watched several videos about setting up the A320 for a IFR flight.

Problem is, they allways start at the apron and I don t know what to do before.

Everytime I fly the A320 there is allready an automatically generated flightplan in the FMC (because I choose IFR) How can I put in a custom flightplan - i.e. made by simbrief - from the scratch?
 

Do I have to chosse „VFR“ or something else before loading the plane at the departure airport - to provide an empty FMC  without the automatic Flightplan?
 

How do I start an IFR Flight in the A320 with an empty FMC - so that I can insert all waypoints and airways in the old fashioned way?

Thanks in advance!
Mike

You can enter a flight plan into the FMC. I seem to recall that Squirrel did it in one of his Autobus A-320 videos.

 

off the top of my head:  if you load a flightplan from the main screen, it will already enter the waypoints into the cdu for you.  If you just choose a departure airport instead of a full plan you can enter the flight plan manually, but the ATC will have no idea what your flight plan is.  You can plan the flight in simbrief, and export that to MSFS and load it in the planner.  I haven't tried that yet, so I don't know how well it works, and then the ATC should be able to deal, but it would already be loaded in the cdu when you load in.

Thanks very much, that were very helpful informations. So just start the flight without a destination and then building the flightplan in the FMC - I ll try it tomorrow.

I did not yet notice an option to import an external flt. File - maybe I have to have a closer look.

 

Simbrief can now feed its flight plan to the save game folder directly and you can then load it easily into the game from that folder. It is pretty awesome and once setup the save from Simbrief is automatic. Then once you have loaded the flightplan on the screen where you normally chose your start and end points you will see the flight plan. It does a nice altitude profile too. It is possible to then change the start point to one of the gates rather than the end of the runway but I am not sure then if the plane gets the flight plan automatically loaded or not. I will have to try that.

Here is a YouTube tutorial on how to do it:

CJ

Edited September 5, 20205 yr by CJ1045

44 minutes ago, CJ1045 said:

Simbrief can now feed its flight plan to the save game folder directly and you can then load it easily into the game from that folder. It is pretty awesome and once setup the save from Simbrief is automatic.

The tutorial you attached has the user manually moving the flight plan to the correct folder which is not what you stated. Did you misinterpret the video?

Sorry, there is an app on the simbrief site now that does that move automatically,

CJ

When you enter the departure/destination in the init page, and you get the comp route page with "none" - if you save a route by simbrief "somewhere in the sim", can you actually load a flightplan directly in the fmc without going through the main menu?

Edited September 5, 20205 yr by Andreas Stangenes

1 hour ago, ShawnG said:

If you just choose a departure airport instead of a full plan you can enter the flight plan manually, but the ATC will have no idea what your flight plan is. 

But you can clear an IFR flight plan that you have manually entered in the cockpit with ATC in the other MSFS planes. Doesn't that work with the A320, too?

3 hours ago, Der Zeitgeist said:

But you can clear an IFR flight plan that you have manually entered in the cockpit with ATC in the other MSFS planes. Doesn't that work with the A320, too?

I didn't think so, but that's why I prefaced with "off the top of my head" If it does, that's good, and I'll happily be wrong.  didn't realize the other planes did that either.

I hope when Asobo sorts out the Nav Data,we will then have the correct altitude and airspeed constraints for sids and stars.

i hope Navigraph sorts it out. They are the Navdata pros!