Just now, cavaricooper said:

 

Yep- BOX STOCK- nothing added...

C

Was a beautiful flight Carl!

 

2 hours ago, mjw8899 said:

Since I have been unable to fly the airbus virtually anywhere on a flight plan,  I am curious about how you flew IFR using ATC and live traffic because I would love to replicate it. What was your route? Did you use ATC the  whole way or selectively to avoid being vectored into Mt Rainer? Which STAR, and did ATC vector you correctly along it? When you say you were “sequenced” how did you know this and with all this traffic was there a threat of GA?  Did all this traffic appear on your TCAS? 

How did you land? Did the AP capture the Localizer and GS or hand fly it since from your description you were IMC at capture? Did you have to hand fly it down given some of the cross wind issues?

I'll see if I can answer for ya. 

Yes, it was IFR all the way and used ATC in doing so. I flew auto pilot the entire way until the 100ft callout in which I took control.

I used the high altitude airways which had me departing KGEG runway 8 using the Alpha and Charlie taxiways. Because of weather planes were landing on runway 8 and  for some reason 3 as well? The flightpath then had me turn right while climbing in order to grab the airway.

ATC controlled all of my altitudes the entire flight. They also called all traffic around me. I could see every one they called.

The landing was not the "automatic" approach the MS defaults with. I chose 16L and the used the default star given for that runway. ATC gave me all altitudes during my decent, and the plan followed the star perfectly grabbing the loc and glideslope.

As for the traffic, that star comes in to 16l and has you left turn North of the field. As i broke out of the clouds there were 3 planes i could clearly see in front of me (unknown distance). As I approached the left turn to grab the localizer I counted 9 planes on the glideslope for both 16c and 16l (I counted NAV lights as it was a night flight. No tcas). It was the coolest thing I ever saw. 

Hope it helps some.

Edited October 13, 20205 yr by dfanucci

It does help, and I am dying to try it out, but when I launch MSFS nearly all my airplanes are gone. Is this a thing?

2 minutes ago, mjw8899 said:

It does help, and I am dying to try it out, but when I launch MSFS nearly all my airplanes are gone. Is this a thing?

Go to Marketplace content and see if you need to download them.

@Steve Dra it was a great way to wind down Steve- TNCM, TFFJ, SABA- I’ve done it a hundred times in the Twotter and can’t wait for that one from Aerosoft... hopefully they will complete the squawk list with this release. It’s been an amazing plane for decades now! Thanks again!

@psolk Paul- how nice to see you here! Will have to go to Israel soon. The Panama Canal Zone too.

C

4 minutes ago, mjw8899 said:

It does help, and I am dying to try it out, but when I launch MSFS nearly all my airplanes are gone. Is this a thing?

Make sure you download the Livery pack for the 320. I was getting proper liveries for Horizon, Frontier, Delta, and American callouts from ATC.

3 hours ago, mjw8899 said:

It does help, and I am dying to try it out, but when I launch MSFS nearly all my airplanes are gone. Is this a thing?

just deluxe ones or default missing as well ?

I've just left Traffic off since launch because I've heard it was a real frame killer. 

 

Is it not a barrier anymore?  Should I turn real world Traffic on if I have no other FPS issues? 

7 hours ago, JughedJones said:

I've just left Traffic off since launch because I've heard it was a real frame killer. 

 

Is it not a barrier anymore?  Should I turn real world Traffic on if I have no other FPS issues? 

For me, it no longer makes a discernable difference.