What is everyone using for flight planning purposes in conjunction with the A320, particularly when it comes to fuel amounts and weights?  In P3D and FSlabs, I'd use Flightaware for my flightplan (which is what I will use in MSFS) and simbrief for everything else.  I'm having trouble getting accurate and realistic weights within the MSFS menu for a flight. What do you all use?

Also, is there a tutorial on how to launch Vatsimin MSFS?  Is it the same as P3d? 

One more thing, how do you set it up for cold and dark or just with GPU on?

If you start at a gate, you will be cold and dark in the A320, with the option of ground power. APU seems to work instantly and without a functioning EFIS, hard to know if its powering up normally. W&B is kind of hit or miss and simbrief numbers aren’t helpful. I think xpilot works though I am not ready to fly the airbus online, because of its erratic behavior.  I flew the airbus for the first time since the patches, here are my impressions:

*Flew KMIA/KIAH Winco5-Gilco2. Both procedures are missing waypoints that need to be added manually.

*Gilco5 was missing waypoints and constraints..had to add them.

*I was unable to add altitude constraints.

*Aircraft descended unexpectedly from cruise without any warning on moving map or fgms. Also the converse, of starting to climb unexpectedly during the descent.

*Descent had to be done manually, and it would switch out of VS mode without warning, possibly related to constraints that I couldn’t change.

*Gilco 5 feeds into 31R ILS but aircraft didn’t capture localizer, and hand flew the landing. I don’t know if GS capture occurs reliably or not.

*Speed was all over the place, so I had to disable the AT, as the aircraft blew through the alpha floor. I don’t think it can stall, they got that part right, but shouldn’t have gotten to that point. 

I guess you could fly this online, but have to be ready for unexpected things to happen and be comfortable with taking over from the AP.

Edited September 25, 20205 yr by mjw8899
Houston not Dulles duh!

Yeah, I am hesitant to do a Vatsim flight because of the behavior you mention.  I am used to the FSlabs reliability and this doesn't come close yet.  I have found that capturing the localizer with AP doesn't work too well.  There is a lot of cool things that I think can eventually come out of this but at the moment the default jets are pretty bad.