If you just want to get rid of this discontinuity you often need to delete the manual waypoint that is created first and then you can clear the discontinuity line in the FMC.  Just clicking on the discontinuity and trying to clear that will often not work, particularly on arrivals as the FMC will not remove this discontinuity if you have not removed the manual waypoint first.

3 hours ago, Huascar said:

While I  appreciate the video, I don't have the time to find and enter so much information. In the video, the pilot gets into the weeds of configuration. Is it possible to fly Fenix A320 without spending 20-25 minutes entering so much data in the FMC?

Don't care about wind, weight factors etc.  I need a departure and arrival point, routes and ILS selection, and the ability to delete discontinuity.  If I have to load so much stuff, I wont use Fenix. In the PMDG, I am done in 5 minutes. In this video, the workload is daunting.

this  is  the  quick   version  of  setting  up the  fmc  and  how  to clear  discons,  once  you have  done  this  a few  times  you will be  able  to  get  it  down  under  2  minutes

 

Slightly off topic here, but I have always pronounced the company name as FEN-IX (not Phoenix).

5 hours ago, Huascar said:

Sorry, I don't mean to disrespect the real simmers here but I prefer to spend as little time a possible on the flight management computer and more time flying. I just want to go!!

If you know the PMDG then you also know that airliners are not the type of aircraft where you "just go".

 

Just plan a flight in Simbrief, import it into the EFB, go into the Weights Tab on the EFB, round your fuel up to the next 100kg or 200lbs then hit load instant and then send to MCDU. There you have your weights. Then you go to the Flight Performance tab, calculate your vspeeds and trim setting and hit "send to MCDU" once again.

Takes no more than 5 Minutes. Just like in the PMDG 737.

Then after you started your engines set the trim to the cg percentage the aircraft shows you in the Fuel Page of the MCDU. Or to the number (x.xUp or x.xDown) you find in the performance calculation page next to your flaps setting.

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11 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Slightly off topic here, but I have always pronounced the company name as FEN-IX (not Phoenix).

I tend to do the same, but probably because nativa language is Portuguese, the most beautiful language in the whole World! just as the girls and the country ... Even the aircraft turn sexy when overflying Portugal, and words sound better, just like FÉNIX !

Hint: make your sim session over Portuguese territory, and the CFD will even look better, weather effects too, ATC, scenery... 

its all good! once you get it down the workload is more enjoyable. it gets rough when you have a ton of planes and you take a sim hiatus for weeks a time. 🙂

7 hours ago, Huascar said:

I will take the time to watch. I know there is a lot to learn. It took me a long time to learn the PMDG.

The Airbus for normal ops A to B by comparison,  is very simple,  once you get past the MCDU

Once you’ve loaded the simbrief flight plan in the efb, choose instant load and then “send to mcdu”. That sends the weights and fuel information over. Once you use the efb for performance calls you can also send those to the mcdu. 

Once you learn the A320 you should be able to get everything programmed and ready for pushback in 5 to 10 min using Instant fuel and pax load. 

Thank you all for your suggestions. I will spend the morning trying to configure the plane.

Is the A320 more difficult than the PMDG 737 to program?

With the PMDG, I am usually done in 5 minutes.  I enter the position, depature and arrival, select departure/arrival, chooses the runways, then go to performance and enter basic info, then I go to legs and easily delete discontinuity, activate and execute. I am done. 

With Fenix aircraft, I feel it requires so much more information based on my preliminary observation.  Maybe it’ll get easier the more I do it.

28 minutes ago, Huascar said:

Thank you all for your suggestions. I will spend the morning trying to configure the plane.

Is the A320 more difficult than the PMDG 737 to program?

With the PMDG, I am usually done in 5 minutes.  I enter the position, depature and arrival, select departure/arrival, chooses the runways, then go to performance and enter basic info, then I go to legs and easily delete discontinuity, activate and execute. I am done. 

With Fenix aircraft, I feel it requires so much more information based on my preliminary observation.  Maybe it’ll get easier the more I do it.

Which hardware throttle and calibration do you use for PMDG and A320?

41 minutes ago, Huascar said:

Thank you all for your suggestions. I will spend the morning trying to configure the plane.

Is the A320 more difficult than the PMDG 737 to program?

With the PMDG, I am usually done in 5 minutes.  I enter the position, depature and arrival, select departure/arrival, chooses the runways, then go to performance and enter basic info, then I go to legs and easily delete discontinuity, activate and execute. I am done. 

With Fenix aircraft, I feel it requires so much more information based on my preliminary observation.  Maybe it’ll get easier the more I do it.

I think the Boeing is more logical to program, the Airbus to me, was weird until I figured it out. Changing arrivals mid flight  in the Airbus, used to be confusing, but I think somewhere along the line, they fixed that issue. I still prefer the Boeing, and that is what I fly around 90% of the time. . 

1 hour ago, Huascar said:

Is the A320 more difficult than the PMDG 737 to program?

No, it’s easier and faster. Once you get used to it you will be able to go from cold and dark to take off faster than the Boeings. There are fewer things to do as an airbus is more automated.

that said, it’s not a big difference. I can do either plane in 5 min or so, it’s just a question of getting used to it. 

1 minute ago, JonathanC said:

No, it’s easier and faster. Once you get used to it you will be able to go from cold and dark to take off faster than the Boeings. There are fewer things to do as an airbus is more automated.

that said, it’s not a big difference. I can do either plane in 5 min or so, it’s just a question of getting used to it. 

My 2 cents to all of this. I’ve have flown “sim” busses and Boeings for well over a decade myself.  I concur with all you’ve said Jonathan.  Not better worse, just different and basically same.  Good luck to OP and I find myself flying about 60% Bus and 40% Boeing these days.

=B

Managed to program a flight and flying now but when I used author throttle the master caution warning activates and I have to disengage A/T. What am I doing wrong?