Kudos to inibuilds for making default aircraft so good. But for me it is unflyable and sloppy in many areas.. Especially coming from fenix block 2 which is the closest to Nirvana I have ever come. 
 

So here are the inibuilds 320 issues..
 

1. Sounds are extremely poor..no bass at all and non existent in many cases.. Start up shut down sounds etc are just not acceptable when you compare with fenix and fbw..
 

2. Flight model - flex takeoff is completely off.. Better use toga.. And landing is total garbage.. I floated down almost the entire runway at flaps 4 and idle thrust.. Best landing physics are in fenix and fbw.. I can butter them both without floating.. That's the key..anyone can butter when you float way past TDZ..

This doesn't bode well for the A350.. Sure it will be flyable with many compromises and will be enjoyable for casual simmers.. Nothing wrong with that..  But once you taste perfection with fenix and pmdg I'm finding it hard to compromise.. I was tempted to buy lvfr a340 and bravo 788.. Both look good on the outside but I have decided not to get them after my experience with ini 320.. The overall experience matters to me.. Even small thinga like having all my honeycomb controls properly mapped etc which I can't do in ini320.. Or having a remote mcdu like in fenix etc.. I really hope fenix does an A330.. They have spoiled me.. I can't even get aerosoft A330 now.. 😞

Edited May 27, 20242 yr by vin747

I really love the ini320 exterior and cabin model though..

Edited May 27, 20242 yr by vin747

5 hours ago, vin747 said:

This doesn't bode well for the A350.. Sure it will be flyable with many compromises and will be enjoyable for ca-sual simmers.. Nothing wrong with that..  But once you taste perfection with fenix and pmdg I'm finding it hard to compromise..

We should be looking at the fidelity of the iniBuilds' *payware* aircraft like the A300 to get a feel for how their A350 and A380 will be. Yes the A300 had bugs on initial release which have gotten fixed in thru various fixpacks and the latest level is a pretty compelling high fidelity aircraft simulation. One could debate the differences/positives/negatives of payware offerings like Fenix vs PMDG vs iniBuilds etc.. but as iniBuilds themselves have said, the depth of simulation they're aiming for in the A350/A380 is something equal or better to their A300.
 

Edited May 27, 20242 yr by lwt1971

Fbw landings is much better than ini, for me this is enough reason to choose fbw over ini.

1 hour ago, lwt1971 said:

We should be looking at the fidelity of the iniBuilds' *payware* aircraft like the A300 to get a feel for how their A350 and A380 will be. Yes the A300 had bugs on initial release which have gotten fixed in thru various fixpacks and the latest level is a pretty compelling high fidelity aircraft simulation. One could debate the differences/positives/negatives of payware offerings like Fenix vs PMDG vs iniBuilds etc.. but as iniBuilds themselves have said, the depth of simulation they're aiming for in the A350/A380 is something equal or better to their A300.
 

While I largely agree with this, the one thing that does worry me is their seeming universal issues with optimization.  It feels like V1 of everything that IniBuilds does, from planes to scenery, is very heavy on FPS and it's usually a 1.3 or 1.4 update that finally is optimized so that simmers other than those with cutting edge hardware can use it. 

For example, their KJFK was nearly unflyable for me, with all of the options turned off, for, what?  6, 8, 10 months?  All the while, on Discord, Ini was saying there were no performance issues or problems until they finally released an optimization update which brought the FPS of KJFK into the mainstream. 

Let's hope the coming A350 and A380 will be usable by everyone on release.

Edited May 27, 20242 yr by Iiari

I seem to get the same FPS with and without the enhancement package

vin747, this is how you can easily land a plane on Fenix? I can easily fit PMDG and FBW in any wind, I also like the INI landing , but for the life of me I can’t get Fenix to fit the land, especially if the wind is not directly in the forehead

What do you guys feel about the floaty landings in ini320? Wanted to know is it just me or have you felt it too? Saw many users on reddit complain about it but none from avsim so far.. I can easily relearn how to land this properly in spite of the float but then I will be picking up some bad landing techniques  which will ruin my fenix landings.. For example there is no pitch down during flare which an airbus should do.. Also when you go idle at flare, an aircraft that weighs 70 tonnes should drop quickly on the ground.. Strange that I'm not seeing that.. Floats like a glider.

The flex takeoff issue is seen by all and I'm OK with the work around.. I will just dial a lower flex temp like 25 that gives me 80% thrust which should make the aircraft takeoff in the middle of the runway rather than the end of it.. It's a 320, not a 380.. It shouldn't need the whole runway length to take off..

8 hours ago, romaf12008 said:

vin747, this is how you can easily land a plane on Fenix? I can easily fit PMDG and FBW in any wind, I also like the INI landing , but for the life of me I can’t get Fenix to fit the land, especially if the wind is not directly in the forehead

Ya fenix was too hard to land in v1 version.. But in v2b2 it has improved a lot.. Still not that easy to land it in gusty and windy conditions though.. Pmdg have dialed down some ground effects that makes it easy to land even in bad weather..

15 hours ago, lwt1971 said:

We should be looking at the fidelity of the iniBuilds' *payware* aircraft like the A300 to get a feel for how their A350 and A380 will be. Yes the A300 had bugs on initial release which have gotten fixed in thru various fixpacks and the latest level is a pretty compelling high fidelity aircraft simulation. One could debate the differences/positives/negatives of payware offerings like Fenix vs PMDG vs iniBuilds etc.. but as iniBuilds themselves have said, the depth of simulation they're aiming for in the A350/A380 is something equal or better to their A300.
 

Ya I really hope A350 will be a payware so that we can expect great quality and quick support, updates and bug fixes.. Also they should release Lvars so that guensli can make good AAO scripts! 😀

I can't fly without the proper button mapping on my alpha and bravo.. Only then the aircraft feels complete to me.. On the pmdg and fenix I have heavily mapped all the buttons to various functions and it makes life so much easier.. When you land you just flip a switch to turn apu on without moving your head trying to find the switch on overhead panel with your mouse.. 

On 5/26/2024 at 6:36 AM, regis9 said:

I would suggest using Lorby Time Machine instead of the built in pause at TOD.

I use it every flight with the Fenix without issues.

https://www.lorby-si.com/downloads.html

Not to derail the original subject too badly, forgive me - how did you get Fenix to work with Time Machine?  Unfortunately, while it seems to see a flight plan; it simply doesn't do anything when I try to accelerate.

If it's easier, you could PM me what you do perhaps?  I'd appreciate it!

I find myself flying the ini Neo more than the FBW these days, I'm not sure why. It just feels nice.