Jetstream96

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Yes, let's ban that flappy wing airplane from FAA airspace!

Thanks, that makes sense now. I only knew that on 737 you can enter the airport and gate number to get the position from navigation database. It's very surprising that none of the pilots noticed the issue on the ground. With the wrong input I assume the routes won't even show up on ND, unless it's in plan mode.

Do airbus pilots really need to enter coordinates manually? If that's true then the problem is FMGS being not automated enough.

The approach is not easy since you have to navigate purely visually along the valley. I've flown once in the 738 and it was an intense experience. The missed approach is extra interesting. You have to fly over the airport and turn left into a valley, then make a 180 deg turn back over the airport. Sounds pretty crazy.

Yep I now understand the chart. Thank you.

Thank you for the diagram. But maybe it's max takeoff weight? Because with 20 tons of payload, A320 cannot takeoff with full fuel tank, but it can land with 7+ tons of reserve fuel, which should not be a limiting factor.

I saw the chart below in A320's airport planning manual, and there is one thing I am curious about. The green curve can be divided into 3 segments. The first one is horizontal, which makes sense because there is a max zero fuel weight limit. But why the second and third segments have different slopes? My guess is that with payload less than 16 tons the aircraft's optimum cruising altitude would hit its limit (41000 ft). Therefore the aircraft can no longer cruise at its optimum altitude so fuel savings are less significant. The same chart for other aircraft types are very similar as well. I am wondering what's the correct explanation? (Source: pdf page 150)

Yeah I do agree the price tag for the high quality addons are definitely justified by the time and resource put into the development. But for some people like me the extra features are just so rarely used. I am quite interested in watching some videos of people flying in the FSL A320 to learn some cool stuff, but whether to buy it or not is entirely another thing.

It doesn't have to be expensive. I've been simming for 7 years and a $30 joystick + payware aircrafts is essentially what I ever needed. Don't overlook the amount of freeware created by the community.

So you said this is a recreation of the flight when the location of clouds are so incredibly obviously incorrect?

Are you trying to load a previously saved flight plan into FMC? Maybe the runway identifier got changed so 10C no longer exists. What the airport btw?

I don't use default ATC at all. It gives me more headaches than realism. Maybe addon ATC is a solution for you, but I am not sure since I don't use them either.

Hmmm, never touched anything other than the NGX and Aerosoft Airbus in like 5 years.

Yes it does that in FSX, but only slightly noticeable when close to the runway. Actually it is quite straight forward mathematically. Deviating to the side making you father from the antenna, so you need to be higher in order to stay on the GS. i.e. (GS height) = (distance from antenna) * tan(3°)