5 minutes ago, tup61 said:

Er... the entire RNAV part? You can't do an RNAV approach as you can in real life. Of course you can load an RNAV approach and fly it manually or by 'aiding' the AP but you can't do a proper RNAV approach (using APPR mode and such). At this moment only VNAV is (being) implemented.

To be fair, for a long time you couldn't do an RNAV approach in a real B737 MAX either. 🤣

5 minutes ago, Maxis said:

.. I highly suggest you educate yourself as to how exactly an RNAV approach is carried out on the A320. As Tup61 stated .. in Managed mode.. Im not talking about using the bird and manually setting your descent angle either.  Im talking full RNAV capability.

Or at worse .. confirm your assertion that the FBWA320NX has this feature.

Like I said, what am I missing here?

The aircraft flew the rnav approach and hold perfectly.

I then exited the hold and executed the approach all in managed mode.

 

 

 

 

15 minutes ago, skully said:

Like I said, what am I missing here?

The aircraft flew the rnav approach and hold perfectly.

I then exited the hold and executed the approach all in managed mode.

 

 

 

 

What are you missing ? The final fully automatic RNAV approach .. You may have had VNAV bring you to a lower altitude .. but thats not a proper RNAV approach. The hold aspect is irrelevant to the discussion. That is a wholly separate feature they added.

Until you start seeing FINAL APP | V/DEV and the aircraft automatically descending along the glideslope after pressing the appr button as demonstrated in the latter stages of the enclosed Video . We don't have Full RNAV as yet

 

 

Edited April 21, 20224 yr by Maxis

Not being a real world A320 pilot, I can tell you I was lucky that day boys!

22 hours ago, BerndB said:

Autopilot is turned on as you do, or at least at an altitunde above 700 feet

You can engage AP above 200AGL

5 hours ago, Bdub22 said:

You can engage AP above 200AGL

well, in a real A320 you even can engage the AP at 100 ft AGL. There is no concrete rule, when exactly the AP has to be engaged, because it depends on several situational parameters. But it is recommended and trained to engage the AP as soon as possible, without get into a hurry. The order is usually after liftoff, 1. LDG Gear up at positive climb 2. AP ON. At that point you have usually reached already 500 or even 1000 ft AGL if you TO with TOGA. 

On 4/20/2022 at 9:34 PM, NZAA said:

 

Just an additional quicktip, because i´ve seen it on your screenshot: For safety reasons in real world the decent or climb in V/S mode has not to be used. Use managed mode or open decent/climb instead, only. 😉