1 minute ago, Victoroos said:

As in have to press altitude on the mcp? 

You can't just select a lower altitude on the FCU and wait for the aircraft to overfly the T/D point like you can in Boeings. You need to set a lower altitude AND press in the ALT select knob to put the aircraft into a managed VNAV descent. You can do this before the T/D point if you so wish (I generally started my decent 5 to 10 miles before the computed T/D point to make the aircraft easier to slow down later). 

4 hours ago, Adrian123 said:

That said FBW still has a long way to go.

Nope not long way to go, the complexity of vnav is something you can't underestimate, just by looking at this vnav code , it is hugely complex. The fact that it works now like this on the first pass (yes first pass, it didn't go yet through many iterations of fixes and improvement), it is very impressive. Just don't look further, some top add-ons like PMDG are still and always tweaking their vnav code since years and yet, they still can't perfect it. That shows you how complex vnav is. 

I am pretty sure it will get improved anyway. 

1 hour ago, omarsmak30 said:

just by looking at this vnav code , it is hugely complex

This just blows my mind. The dedication and complexity to do something so challenging is truly inspiring. I'm not a programmer or developer, so all that code just goes right over my head, but you don't have to be Bill Gates to know that all that code is complex and takes a lot of work to understand and write. Thank you a million times over FBW team. I have donated before and I'll make sure I do again as soon as I can. 

Just got done with a beautiful flight up the Peruvian coast from SPJC to SPRU with the latest experimental build. VNAV performed FLAWLESSLY! I can't begin to express my gratitude to the FBW team - this is an AMAZING piece of software from an even more amazing dev team! I'm absolutely giddy!

Edited March 23, 20224 yr by liamp51

2 minutes ago, liamp51 said:

VNAV performed FLAWLESSLY!

Ummm. I must have got a different version. To qualify, 100's of hours in FSlabs A320.

1 hour ago, Adrian123 said:

Ummm. I must have got a different version. To qualify, 100's of hours in FSlabs A320.

In exactly the same position. Was pretty much unusable for me.

1 hour ago, abennett said:

In exactly the same position. Was pretty much unusable for me.

The whole idea of beta is to share problems with the FBW team. That’s how “unuseable”quickly becomes “useable”. Please do share your observations with them in detail. We all benefit from that. 😉

2 hours ago, Adrian123 said:

Ummm. I must have got a different version. To qualify, 100's of hours in FSlabs A320.

Please note, there are some fundamental differences to be expected between the FMS variant we model (Honeywell rel. H3) vs the variant FSL has.

Even otherwise, as mentioned previously, there are a significant number of bugs to be expected in the current experimental. You're most welcome to the VNAV-error discussion thread on our Discord to share your experiences with the experimental, some of those issues may be unknown to the devs working on it and in the end, it'll simply benefit the entire community with faster bug resolution

Hoping we get a VNAV YouTube video from “Real Airbus Pilot” soon. His videos give great in-depth insight into systems and real world procedures. 

Yes a video would be great.  I've been flying the FBW A320 since it first debuted (and what an amazing effort on the part of the team I'd like to add) but I've never flown another in any other sim.  I never learned proper VNAV use / procedures, etc.  Any links would be great if you have them for learning this aspect of this and other modern airliners.

Same here . I flew 767/747 in previous sim but have never got to grips with VNAV.

 

I used to dial in the airport frequencies, switch off AP

and land using the IFR instruments and ATC instructions.

Just did a flight from Tunis to Naples ... All sorts of Awesomeness going on. Imported my plan ... set up my departure sid and star then realized the plan was a touch outdated mid flight set up a new star mid flight and the box and the lnav/vnav handled it all beautifully.. Hats off to you guys this is some real nice work. Didn't even touch the descent calculator.. just pick your target alt and engage at the TOD marker .. the system just took over from that .. adjusting as needed. Where prior to this it was open descent playing impostor for managed descent lol.

Edited March 23, 20224 yr by Maxis

32 minutes ago, badgenes said:

Yes a video would be great.  I've been flying the FBW A320 since it first debuted (and what an amazing effort on the part of the team I'd like to add) but I've never flown another in any other sim.  I never learned proper VNAV use / procedures, etc.  Any links would be great if you have them for learning this aspect of this and other modern airliners.

I was expecting easyjetsimpilot or A320 pilot to do a video as those two are usually very quick on releasing videos on new FBW features but not today i guess.

5 hours ago, Adrian123 said:

Ummm. I must have got a different version. To qualify, 100's of hours in FSlabs A320.

Well you will do them good if you share the issues on their discord instead of trying to compare it to "FSLabs" with a negative vibe

I find it hard to believe that it was flawless for some and unusable for others. Maybe some context would be great (how many speed and altitude restrictions? What exactly did not work?). Also I want to make sure you really downloaded the EXPERIMENTAL version, and not the development version. If you saw a white hockey stick showing downwards on the ND (at the TOD), you got the right version.

(I am not affiliated with FBW)

Edited March 23, 20224 yr by Fiorentoni