2 hours ago, V1ROTA7E said:

They are Fly By Wire, but it means something different when flying Boeing. With Boeing, the controls operate as they would if the plane was a C172. Pitch up to climb and hold it...then trim out the back pressure. It's supposed to give the feeling of normal, cable actuated flight controls.

With Airbus, it's a bit different, which is why using a yoke can be troublesome. Fly By Wire in this sense is much more hands off. You put in some stick (left, right, up, down) and go back to neutral. The plane will maintain what you were doing previously. With a yoke, you sorta hold it where you want it, especially in a bank. If you do that with an Airbus, you'll just keep rolling until you go back to neutral. Having a Joystick for the Airbus will give you a much more intuitive sense of control.

Yes, I am very aware of the difference between the two.  Hence, my comment about it being different. But my point to the OP, was that you can fly it with a yoke. But as you pointed out, it will be different. 

Noel, did you try the Salty B748? It has made some good progress and is a pleasure to fly. Download it with the FlyByWire platform and select the Development version preferably. The FMC is rather complete, much more than the 787 HD.

I wonder which version of the 787 HD you fly, I just completed two flights this week with the Dev version and everything was fine, except for this SID and STAR programming that never seems to get accepted by the AP. I also avoid using my Aivlasoft EFB otherwise the plane will go into an unending right turn! By the way an update was released yesterday.

Otherwise, I can only echo the numerous favorable opinions regarding the FBW A320, it is for me the best freeware ever developed, and still being refined that has reached a long time ago a status as good as a payware.

Edited December 24, 20223 yr by Bernard Ducret

This guide you can pull good stuff from

https://www.mudspike.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FSX-FSLabs-A320-Guide.pdf

6 hours ago, btacon said:

Noel a yoke is all I fly with and the FBW works just fine with it. The other good news is there is a plethora of training videos for the Airbus. FSLabs for one and a host of others. You’ll pick it up just fine. 
-B

Agreed on the plethora of videos.

320 Sim Pilots content on YouTube is excellent, a real 320 Pilot I believe.

 

 

9 hours ago, Bernard Ducret said:

Noel, did you try the Salty B748? It has made some good progress and is a pleasure to fly. Download it with the FlyByWire platform and select the Development version preferably. The FMC is rather complete, much more than the 787 HD.

I wonder which version of the 787 HD you fly, I just completed two flights this week with the Dev version and everything was fine

No I haven't thanks I will check it out.  I am using the current Dev version and the Stable version before that resulted in a massive degradation in performance an hour or two into the flight, twice,. so tried the Dev version.  I did have a successful flight in it however had some weird issues I never had before and was unable to get autothrottle working again in fact nothing I could do w/ autopilot would make the plane climb very strange I have done a lot of flights in it with no troubles.