I wanted to specify during the Flight Control Check, the procedure is Full Up, Full Down, Neutral, Full Left, Full Right, Neutral.

During the taxiing, you'll have to brake for "Brake Check, Pressure Zero", to check you'll find next to the landing gear on the right, to verify that its on zero. Don't forget to put the TCAS on TA/RA, landing lights, strobe On and Nose on T/O, press chrono. Once on the runway, increase the thrust to reach 50% of N1 so that the engines are stabilized and release the brakes (no parking brakes) switches to Flex or TOGA, when you reach Vr speed, pull the stick with an angle of rise of 15°.

Ok this is great....  Got her airborne - and I think I'm getting a better feel for it.  Also the startup sounds are wow....  ooooh!

freedom1 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Edited April 20, 20224 yr by ryanbatc

26 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

Ok this is great....  Got her airborne - and I think I'm getting a better feel for it.  Also the startup sounds are wow....  ooooh!

freedom1 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Great! Have fun!! 😉 

U can to use the Flypad for the charts...it gives more realism in the sim!

If you do want to check some Youtube videos 320 Sim Pilot - YouTube is pretty good. Real world A320 pilot. He covers new additions that FBW makes and comments on how they may or may not differ from the real aircraft. He also has some general guides on how to perform specific procedures.

Excellent @ryanbatc - enjoy!

Further down the line you might want to consider the FBW edition from FS2Crew. It really helps in terms of becoming familiar with the checklists - as @Alaska738 mentioned earlier. And it adds to the immersion.

EDIT: I think I was mistanken last night saying that the recorder was not visible in your picture.  

 

4 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

EDIT: I think I was mistanken last night saying that the recorder was not visible in your picture.  

Yup. 😉

  

4 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

And it adds to the immersion.

It does indeed but it also adds to the time spend behind the computer... I myself have trouble enough already finding the time to do a proper airliner flight from A to B (and usually a short hop too, like 300 to 400 nm!) so I simply don't have the time to follow the scripts. And that's another drawback imho: it's the exact same script you follow every single time. Of course you are following certain flows whenever you fly an airliner but (without something like FS2Crew) I often do things a bit different every flight to keep things interesting: FS2Crew limits my freedom (or better said: removes this freedom) and forces me to repeat everything in the exact same order each and every flight. Feels a bit like being in the movie Ground Hog Day. 😉 For me personally that's enough to not use software like that. Even though it can indeed add to the immersion. 😉

1 hour ago, tup61 said:

it's the exact same script you follow every single time

I see your point. However that's part of why I like it. Too many times I've missed an item (or several!) from the checklist. Also it's great having a FO that performs tasks, especially before take-off, on final approach and just after landing.

I also have AI handle radio from holding point before takeoff to taxi to the ramp. Just have to turn off before parking, otherwise it promtly asks for pushback. 

22 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

Ok this is great....  Got her airborne - and I think I'm getting a better feel for it.  Also the startup sounds are wow....  ooooh

Careful! I JUST started flying it last weekend and CAN’T STOP. I did 6 legs last Sat and Sun. 

15 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Further down the line you might want to consider the FBW edition from FS2Crew. It really helps in terms of becoming familiar with the checklists - as @Alaska738 mentioned earlier. And it adds to the immersion.

 

Yeap, it's a great formation A320.

On 4/19/2022 at 12:12 PM, ryanbatc said:

It's hard when all I ever do is battery master and alternator.  Fuel pump for a few secs, mixture idle/or leaned and throttles cracked, mags on, start!

I am such a GA guy too (pretty easy to watch Youtube and get up to speed on this beast)... always dissing the tubeliners... but man some of my best sim flights have been in the FBW Airbus. SO immersive. The sounds... the systems. I love it. And when everything goes well, and you get her back on the ground I feel very accomplished. The Airbus makes it all look easy. GA is still my jam, but the Airbus sure is pulling me over!. 

It's great to see so many trying different elements the sim brings to all. I never flew anything other than tubeliners before MSFS. probably because of the lack of a decent airliner at launch i ended up starting to fly GA, and had so much fun learining along they way, that it remains a firm favourite. as do the classics like the DC-6, Connie.

Don't get me wrong, i still fly airliners daily if i can, but the choices now are fantastic, and just getting better all the time.

Guys I'm still wondering two things

How to increase cruise speed in the computer?  I did a flight today to KBOS at FL230 and I think it only computed 280 kias.  Yuck that's so slow.  

When to activate APPR phase or does it do it automatically when I transition from a STAR to an IAP?

oh: one more thing - if I were to fly this as a maintenance flight where I would perform multiple instrument approaches to the same airport how would I set that up in the computer?

Edited April 23, 20224 yr by ryanbatc

3 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

Guys I'm still wondering two things

How to increase cruise speed in the computer?  I did a flight today to KBOS at FL230 and I think it only computed 280 kias.  Yuck that's so slow.  

When to activate APPR phase or does it do it automatically when I transition from a STAR to an IAP?

I had the longest flight of my life at 280kts! Typically it only happens at "below mach" altitudes.

In the MCDU during setup, put your desired cruise speed or mach in the PRESEL field. (PERF button>NEXT PHASE until CRZ) It will accelerate to that speed at cruise. It will also show in the AP panel and you can adjust it to your liking once you are cruising. I usually start with .72 or 320 kts for a FL230 flight. (you MAY... can't remember... have to put it back in managed mode (dot) for descent if you want it to hold 290 kts then 250 at 10k.)

For APPR PHASE I think it's supposed to do it automatically but I activate it when I wish to reduce speed. Otherwise it keeps you at 250 kts. So once I enter the airspace and need to slow, I activate APPR and it drops down to 200-210 kts. To continue slowing, just drop flaps one notch at a time. It will automatically reduce speed, down to Vref at flaps 4. 

Edited April 23, 20224 yr by haskell

You can manually select a higher speed in the FCU (autopilot).

(I usually arm LOC when the localizer is “alive” ie close to intercepting. Then arm APP when glideslope’s alive. Can also just arm APP as one step. It doesn’t arm automatically.)

Misread your second question. See @haskell above. 

Edited April 23, 20224 yr by Cpt_Piett