11 hours ago, andyjohnston.net said:

Is there anyone else who hates flying the Airbus as much as me?

Doubt it.

11 hours ago, andyjohnston.net said:

I can never get it to do anything except go out of control

Pilot's error obviously. Don't blame the plane.

7 minutes ago, gb09f said:

Contrary to misinformation, the aircraft doesn't fly itself!

Well, actually it does. I absolutely love the Airbus and the Fenix one is the only airliner I may buy (unless a Dash 8 Q400 comes along) but the plane is extremely easy to fly and it's loved and praised because of its ability to do almost everything itself. Yes, of course you CAN handfly it whenever you want to but it can fly by itself and in that case it only requires a few button turns and switch flicking in order to go from A to B. Great design imho.

1 hour ago, ErichB said:

Trust me when I say I was a hardcore PMDG 737 guys for years.  I bought the FSLabs Airbus years ago but didn't really allow myself time to appreciate it.    I kept flying the 737, which I love(d)

Come MSFS and a year's worth of FBW development, and I don't think I will really ever enjoy flying the 737 again as much as I used to.  

Same here. The 737 (Zibo) was my favourite aircraft in XPlane - by far. At some point I felt I‘d need a new challenge and bought the FF A320. I spent quite some time coming to grips with it an I did enjoy it for a while but eventually I went back to the 737. Now that I‘ve got used to the A320 I’m really enjoying it and if I‘m honest I‘m even more excited about the upcoming Fenix 320 than the PMDG 737.

13 hours ago, andyjohnston.net said:

Is there anyone else who hates flying the Airbus as much as me?  I can never get it to do anything except go out of control/  I tried it again today after having not used it in ages, thinking maybe I'd have better luck figuring it out, but when I couldn't get it to hold an airspeed or a vertical speed, I just turn off the AP and flew visually back to the departure point.  My virtual passengers can get into a Boeing aircraft and we'll go from there.

Huh?

1 hour ago, tup61 said:

Well, actually it does. 

I stand corrected. 

14 hours ago, andyjohnston.net said:

Is there anyone else who hates flying the Airbus as much as me?  I can never get it to do anything except go out of control/  I tried it again today after having not used it in ages, thinking maybe I'd have better luck figuring it out, but when I couldn't get it to hold an airspeed or a vertical speed, I just turn off the AP and flew visually back to the departure point.  My virtual passengers can get into a Boeing aircraft and we'll go from there.

Sometimes I wonder what the heck people are doing with their sim 🙂

1 minute ago, MySound said:

Sometimes I wonder what the heck people are doing with their sim 🙂

???

1 hour ago, andyjohnston.net said:

???

If there are hundreds of people flying the A32NX without problems - and one or two who spin the bird out of control - it may be a Layer 8 Problem mate 🙂

Here are some YouTube streams created by RL Airbus pilots. Only the more recent involve the FBW model, but there's tons of introductory/tutorial information explaining the Airbus system and how it can differ from conventional aircraft including Boeing:

V1-Simulations

320 Sim Pilot

Blackbox711

Some of this material is presented in mods other than the FBW A320 and on other simulators, but there's a lot of great stuff that will make it much easier to learn how to fly the Airbus, whatever the simulator.

Good luck.

Edited February 24, 20224 yr by jrw4
typo

2 hours ago, MySound said:

If there are hundreds of people flying the A32NX without problems - and one or two who spin the bird out of control - it may be a Layer 8 Problem mate 🙂

They weren't using the FBW Neo.

19 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

They weren't using the FBW Neo.

Doesnt matter, also the standard A320 is flying ok 😉