1 hour ago, SAS443 said:

Good question. At least visible when inbound the IAF. And you must be in NAV-mode for the "final"-prompt to be displayed in the CDU. It wont show while in HDG select (like if you are receiving terminal vectoring)

Since you are flying a pure RNAV, it should prompt "FINAL X.X" where X is the pseudo glideslope coded for the procedure.

For some reason FINAL APPR mode never activated. Hence, in PROF mode the aircraft never decelerated to the green dot speed, or further to the S-speed. 

Doing an RNAV 29L approach into KFAT, at 1800' before ZUDAP, I was in ALT and NAV mode, gear down and slats/flaps 20/20. When activating PROF mode the aircraft wanted to accelerate to 248kts. Again I did the approach in V/S mode. 

I made another video which I'll upload once it's finished processing. 

EDIT: I may have found the answer. Need to be in a selected mode (not PROF mode) + NAV mode for the FINAL APPR prompt to appear, as per iniBuild's approach tutorial. E.g. can be in V/S, ALT, LVL/CH, but not PROF. 

Edited November 21, 20223 yr by Cpt_Piett

Burbank RNAV approach, details in video description. 4K takes a while longer to process. 

 

Edited November 22, 20223 yr by Cpt_Piett

My second or third impression of the inibuilds A310 is...GET the enhanced version from the marketplace.  It's free.  And it is a much clearer cockpit, much better graphics, and I'm not seeing any performance loss on my hardware.  Someone here at AVSIM said they couldn't tell much difference, well, you must be at 1080p because this kid sees a huge difference in clarity.

Just found some more information on RNAV approaches. Interestingly, the aircraft has to be at platform altitude in ALT HLD with gear down and landing flaps before FAP as per the manual. 

This does not apply to ILS approaches. Also, the autothrust must be disconnected prior to landing unlike an ILS approach. In the latter it's enough to go idle thrust before touchdown. 

Edited November 22, 20223 yr by Cpt_Piett

done coupled rnav with 310 and 300 in XP11 , not tested in MSFS yet

here is a yt video how it done 

 

 

 

Edited November 22, 20223 yr by westman

I have to say that I find the A310 much more satisfying to operate than the PMDG 737. I mean, the PMDG 737 is nice and all, but flying it automated provides almost challenge. Everything
works as expected - which is the point, of course.

In the A310, OTOH, even flying everything under profile and nav provides unique challenges, especially when descending via vnav, which often requires manual intervention, in order to "stay on the profile".

The A310 feels "crunchy" around the edges, which I like.

Visually, of course, the PMDG 737 can't hold a candle to the A310.

Still looking for a decent BizJet livery for the A310, though.

17 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I have to say that I find the A310 much more satisfying to operate than the PMDG 737

I agree. Although I feel like a complete noob in it, it's more of a challenge which is fun. It does "feel" like a heavy aircraft whilst hand flying, and it takes a while for it to slow down. 

1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

The A310 feels "crunchy" around the edges, which I like.

Indeed, that is the beauty of it. Even the vnav is not perfect and shows that is an old plane with older technology. Some people may think the VNav is buggy but is actually buggy as well in the actual aircraft due to its old technology 

53 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

Indeed, that is the beauty of it. Even the vnav is not perfect and shows that is an old plane with older technology. Some people may think the VNav is buggy but is actually buggy as well in the actual aircraft due to its old technology 

In the iniBuild tutorials, the narrator says it's probably too good right now compared to the real thing.

That's saying something.

Edited November 22, 20223 yr by Tuskin38

49 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

In the iniBuild tutorials, the narrator says it's probably too good right now compared to the real thing.

That's saying something.

Yeah, it says that is already a big achievement that has already VNAV given its old technology.  

54 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

In the iniBuild tutorials, the narrator says it's probably too good right now compared to the real thing.

I love that there was a comment from the Devs about VNAV on the real A310 not respecting altitude constraints while climbing on a SID and only “sometimes” respecting them while descending on a STAR lol 

Edited November 22, 20223 yr by regis9

8 minutes ago, regis9 said:

I love that there was a comment from the Devs about VNAV on the real A310 not respecting altitude constraints while climbing on a SID and only “sometimes” respecting them while descending on a STAR lol 

Yeah, they also said real pilots they've talked to rarely use Profile/VNAV mode.

Edited November 22, 20223 yr by Tuskin38

35 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Yeah, they also said real pilots they've talked to rarely use Profile/VNAV mode.

Just have to watch the speed closely in FL/CH and V/S mode, especially through the Mach transition.

Need a bit of help

So I've got a running issue with hydraulics two days in a row. Hopefully someone can identify the potential culprit because while i know for a fact that my former hometown airline had these running tech tech issues with its A310s i wasn't expecting them to happen to me virtually as well with the flight getting completely cancelled.. (It feels almost too real having to disembark cause these A310's loved to go tech)

So I've attempted to do MKJP -KMIA two nights in a row.  Entered everything properly which takes ages and then do the pushback and startup.

First night ... blue hydraulic line shows low pressure but everything on the panel checks out. Needless to say that was a rollback to the gate because some flight controls went inop.

Second night  green line shows a fault after pushback and startup  and the ecam only shows the autobrake would be affected so i switched to alternate and decided to continue. Well that didn't work out too well because there wasn't enough pressure to close up the landing gear. U turn and back to MKJP .. 

So am i doing the engine startup procedure wrong or something ? because my very first two flights were flawless (and i always start cold and dark). Now it looks like i have the very worst of the real Air Jamaica's A310 in my fleet (mind you those cancellation cash vouchers + vouchers for the Pegasus were pretty decent in its day when you complained enough once de boarded and back at checkin when the night flight gets cancelled.)

 

Edited November 22, 20223 yr by Maxis

Been following this thread. To be sure, ini has a few things to sort which we all know they will. I’ve been enjoying the heck out of my SWS Kodiak wheels version as I’ve just gotten into MSFS about a month ago. Currently out in California and working my way up to Alaska before seeing Canada. Got to thinking of which heavy iron to get started on once I’m done with my exclusive GA flying. Was thinking it was going to be Fenix as I spent the last year in P3D exclusively with FSL. But now I’m thinking this A310 (in the awesome new Delta livery I picked up at Flightsim.to) may be the ticket. It reminds me of the size and range of the Level-D 763 we all loved so much back in FSX days.