OUT NOW for MSFS, exclusively on Orbx. Marketplace coming soon.

https://orbxdirect.com/product/fsacademy-jetliner

Jetliner is an all-new, study-level mission package to introduce you to airline operations and jet aircraft.

Brought to you by a real A320 captain, Jetliner provides an authentic and realistic environment to learn how to handle the big jets, using genuine Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and techniques used by the professionals.

Commence your journey into airline flying first by joining us on a full sector from London Gatwick to Barcelona. The trip is divided into dedicated missions to discuss and demonstrate each phase of flight, from Taxi-Out to Taxi-In. We then move on to explore abnormals and more complex scenarios.

Guided step-by-step by your Airbus Captain, learn how to handle a passenger jet authentically so you can go forwards and apply real procedures to your airline flights, knowing you’re doing it as realistically as possible.

Each mission has accompanying theory, found in the comprehensive ground school manual. Learn the theory before you take to the skies and practice it for yourself by performing a complex departure from one of the world’s most challenging airports.

Learn all about it here: www.fsacademy.co.uk/jetliner

Nice.  I own the VFR and IFR tutorials from FS Academy.  I hope you guys  make a tutorial for handling emergencies (for GA planes is fine) in MSFS.

Is this only applicable to the A320? 

Quote from the manual:

"Jetliner is designed around the use of the default MSFS A320"

 

42 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Quote from the manual:

"Jetliner is designed around the use of the default MSFS A320"

 

Not sure why they couldn't have just named it something like that then, very misleading. Ohhh well, the wait for 737 continues anyway....

"Study level" mission pack for a default MSFS A320. ? Right!

Looks like a good product for those wanting to recreate air transport SOPs, bearing in mind many of them are not type specific. Bit surprising they didn't base it on the free FBW A320 expansion though.

So I’m guessing it won’t work with the A320NX?

Manual is free, worth checking out

https://68a63b15-7172-4b49-949e-50ed166e39b9.filesusr.com/ugd/41777f_69af0bb0694f440591b959df2a30b10a.pdf

They say couldn't use the FBW because it's constantly developing and any change could break the mission integration, ditto for any other mod. And I'm sure most potential customers use the default A320 (as opposed to the minority that use mods).

 

Edited May 19, 20215 yr by keithb77

1 hour ago, nyfirefly11 said:

So I’m guessing it won’t work with the A320NX?

33 minutes ago, keithb77 said:

They say couldn't use the FBW because it's constantly developing and any change could break the mission integration, ditto for any other mod. And I'm sure most potential customers use the default A320 (as opposed to the minority that use mods).

 

LOL. Who still flies the default A320 when we have the brilliant, free FBW mod!?

More than that, who flies the default A320 and yet will pay for a realistic airline SOP. That would be a contradiction if ever there was one. Most potential customers (those looking for accurate SOP's) are not using the default A320.

So in order to use this product, we need to dumb down the A320 back to Asobo default. Absolutely no.

 

 

Sorry, I just dont get this business sense.  Brought to you by a real A320 Captain,  with genuine SOP.  I dont know how any real world captain would be attracted to using the default A320 with so many things not working properly, let alone trying to do SOPs with it. The default should be titled "How not to fly the A320 Neo".  Because when they get to something actually worthy like the FBW or FsLabs aircraft, they will have learned all the bad habits from a word not allowed default. Besides theres a good number of videos on youtube with real world airbus pilots, and theres no way they would show off with the default.  Perhaps its still appealing to the real newbies joining the hobby.  

2 hours ago, HighTowers said:

Sorry, I just dont get this business sense.  Brought to you by a real A320 Captain,  with genuine SOP.  I dont know how any real world captain would be attracted to using the default A320 with so many things not working properly, let alone trying to do SOPs with it. The default should be titled "How not to fly the A320 Neo".  Because when they get to something actually worthy like the FBW or FsLabs aircraft, they will have learned all the bad habits from a word not allowed default. Besides theres a good number of videos on youtube with real world airbus pilots, and theres no way they would show off with the default.  Perhaps its still appealing to the real newbies joining the hobby.  

Personally I'd take this over YT videos any day and as explained above they have very good reason for using the default A320 over the FBW mod.

 

I'm likely to pick this up for next time I have a week or two off on the strength of the IFR and VFR packs they've previously done.

2 hours ago, HighTowers said:

Sorry, I just dont get this business sense.  Brought to you by a real A320 Captain,  with genuine SOP.  I dont know how any real world captain would be attracted to using the default A320 with so many things not working properly, let alone trying to do SOPs with it. The default should be titled "How not to fly the A320 Neo".  Because when they get to something actually worthy like the FBW or FsLabs aircraft, they will have learned all the bad habits from a word not allowed default. Besides theres a good number of videos on youtube with real world airbus pilots, and theres no way they would show off with the default.  Perhaps its still appealing to the real newbies joining the hobby.  

I agree, there are a number of real life Airbus pilots on YT and Twitch for that matter that can help you. There are nice and friendly fellows too! 

Like many MSFS products the target market is the million or so people who bought MSFS and aren't long-term simmers, don't follow the forums or youtube channels. Will sound good to them...

I will tell you this much. I had a pleasure of testing this product to find any potential issues before it was announced/released. It's not an easy answer. Would I recommend the product? Absolutely. There IS a lot to learn even using default Asobo 320. It WAS a bit jarring switching from FBW back to that elementary one at first, but the product does pretty good dancing around deficiencies of the default aircraft by structuring the lessons to focus on the things it CAN do rather than the things it CAN'T... You CAN still learn a bunch about flying airliners from this package. For example, on climb  approach, it DOES have you selecting speeds that make sense. It does teach you to maximize climb performance if you need to get through some bumpy weather quickly. It does teach you how to hand-fly the thing cause despite what some people tell you, you DO need to know how to handle it without autopilot. It also teaches you some procedures on abnormals - aborted takeoffs, cabin depressurization, engine failure on takeoff, etc... 

The downside IS that you have to nuke both your FBW A320 install AND Navigraph AIRACs in order to use it... But, those things are re-installed/re-enabled rather quickly once you are done with the course, so that you can apply the concepts in a higher fidelity aircraft. 

That's my 2 cents.