3 hours ago, specisk said:

Nevermind.

I uninstalled Norton which is a very broken and shameless product. After deactivating and uninstalling Norton my update process is working fine. I will be switching to a new AV....finally.

AV products are a thing of the past. These days they are more harm than good for your system. You don't need any AV software installed.

On 5/21/2022 at 4:23 PM, icewater5 said:

These 'false positives/flags' are not that unusual. Whilst they can be a bit annoying at least it means the program is doing its job 🙂 

I use Webroot, no false positives, and it doesn't slow your system either. 

5 minutes ago, captain420 said:

AV products are a thing of the past. These days they are more harm than good for your system. You don't need any AV software installed.

Agreed. Though it won't hurt to have Windows 11 build in protection enabled. But AV payware? Nah! 

Edited May 22, 20224 yr by tup61

1 hour ago, martinboehme said:

From your description, I'm not sure: Are you trying to do a straight-in landing from that approach? That's not going to work, and the approach is not designed to be flown that way. Note that:

• The approach is labeled as a "cloud-break procedure"
• The minima say "landing rwy 15/33", not "straight-in landing" to a single runway as you would see on a straight-in approach
• At PR816, you're still at 13,800 feet, almost 6,500 feet above field elevation, but only nine track miles to the threshold. That would equate to a descent angle of about 7 degrees if you wanted to make a straight-in approach.
• Anyhow, the missed approach point at PR808 is right above the airport, and your MDA for category C is 10,320 feet, still almost 3,000 feet above the airport. (This equals an altitude loss of about 3500 feet from PR816, which corresponds to the 3.5 degree angle noted on the chart.)

I believe the way this is flown in real life is that after PR808, they visually fly a series of descending turns in the valleys to lose altitude and bring them back to the airport. I don't think there's any official information on this available on the web -- in the real world, I'd assume it's taught as part of a course you need to get the "authorization required" noted on the chart. Here's some relevant sim-focused discussion however:

https://community.infiniteflight.com/t/a-guide-to-the-paro-approach/500927

https://simfest.co.uk/paro-special-briefing

As to your question on why you weren't able to descend below 13,800 feet, I'm honestly not sure. If you were in FINAL APPR mode (i.e. you pressed the "APPR" button), I _think_ that should take you down the glide path depicted on the chart. Maybe this is an issue with how the approach is coded in the navdata? Flying it in FPA mode is of course an alternative, but in any case, you'll have to do the visual approach after PR808.

Thanks a lot for your explanation. I realized I misread the approach plate. I since then have descended down to MDA then visually flown a circuit to land. Which is of course easier said than done with all the surrounding terrain. A nerve-wrecking approach for sure, but I managed to do it successfully in both the 737 and the 320.

In the 320 I didn’t get a glide path below 13,800 though, even though I was in FINAL APPR mode.

I found the RNP approach into SBRJ Santos Dumont RW02R much easier than Faro. And the circling to land into Bolzano rwy 19, which has a visual approach track on the chart.

The update is giving excellent performance on my 2016- vintage 4-core 4790K CPU (o/c at 4GHz) with 32GB RAM and a GTX1080Ti GPU.

I enabled the onboard GPU and have offloaded the displays to that in “balanced” mode. I run at locked 30FPS, and the sim is maintaining that well with only slight stuttering on the ground, and none in the air.

The A320 is working both my CPU and GPU hard. CPU is ranging between 65 and 90 percent and the GPU between 90 and 100 percent, but in the original release version both were 100% almost all the time and performance was not as good, so the folks at Fenix definitely found some good optimizations in this new version.

I am acquiring a new 12900K / 3080Ti system in about 2 weeks - being built by Jetline Systems - and of course I expect a major performance boost with the new PC, but in the meantime, I am perfectly happy with how the Fenix is now running on my almost 7-year-old FS system.

17 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Are you in the Fenix in the sim? Did you enter your IP address correctly?

It seems my IPad is too old to use this feature...it has IOS 9.3.6 and it is updated....If I use my laptop EFB works fine!

Thanks

2 hours ago, ega said:

It seems my IPad is too old to use this feature...it has IOS 9.3.6 and it is updated....If I use my laptop EFB works fine!

Thanks

Shouldn’t make any difference as you just need any browser to type in the IP address. 

On 5/21/2022 at 10:24 PM, Bobsk8 said:

On the flap setting, after the setting there us a box that says Flaps/THS     what the heck is THS? 

On 5/21/2022 at 10:37 PM, Ridvan Celik said:

Hey guys just a question, if we input the FLAP / THS setting do we then need to manually adjust the trim also or is it one or the other ?

You do not have to populate the THS field, many operators do not. THS is Trimble Horizontal Stabiliser, it's your takeoff elevator trim setting. You must manually set the trim using the wheels next to the thrust levers. The loadsheet should give you your takeoff Centre of Gravity, there's then a scale on the wheel (you may need to move your camera position) that tells you what trim setting this approximates too (or you use the THS value given to you by the calculators).

 

On 5/22/2022 at 2:48 PM, Treetops45 said:

I think one of the reasons I have struggled to adapt to the A320 is that I am used to GA GPS/AP, & the Boeing 'Flight Control Unit' layout.

So when I get in the A320 I am looking for square push buttons, such as  LNAV  & VNAV, V/S.

An easy way to remember: if you push an FCU knob in, you "push" control away from you for the aircraft to manage. If you pull an FCU knob out, you are pulling control back to you and you set the values. You'll need to push or pull the altitude knob every time you dial in a new figure. The FMA (top line of the PFD) will tell you what modes are active.

 

23 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

I used speed brake from FAP, and I was at approach speed and flaps 3. But still I run into overspeed issues, leaving me too fast and too high... According to the approach plate the approach is certified for category C aircraft.

Spoiler deployment is limited when flaps are extended, at some flap settings it is entirely prohibited. You are not suppose to use spoilers during the approach on most aircraft types unless it is specifically certified for that use because of the risk of stall in a low energy situation (for example BA's A318s and E175s at London City, they have a special steep approach button that automates operation of spoiler panels).

EDIT: I also forgot on the A320 only (not A319 or A321) spoilers are limited to half full extension whenever the autopilot is engaged. I suspect this is something to do with the now deprecated Load Alleviation Function (LAF) that early A320s had.

Edited May 23, 20224 yr by ckyliu

On 5/22/2022 at 10:08 AM, Cpt_Piett said:

Are you in the Fenix in the sim? Did you enter your IP address correctly?

Thanks for the very helpful instructions, unfortunately I only get a "google" icon placed on my ipad desktop. Do I have to be in-sim for this to work? I was not.

Regards

2 hours ago, ckyliu said:

An easy way to remember: if you push an FCU knob in, you "push" control away from you for the aircraft to manage. If you pull an FCU knob out, you are pulling control back to you and you set the values. You'll need to push or pull the altitude knob every time you dial in a new figure. The FMA (top line of the PFD) will tell you what modes are active.

I LOVE that thinking behind the design. It's purely innovative and practical, just like the lights-off-overhead philosophy.

22 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Good to hear you sorted it out. I'm using F-secure, pretty happy with that. 

For simmers where you want max performance, Webroot is a great AV.