This series on Aerosoft's A320 is quite educational as you know your stuff both as a simmer and a video editor. Please note that we are grateful for your time and effort to feed us with these tutorials. I personally look forward to seeing some companies like PMDG or iFly to sponsor you. Best wishes.
Awesome video once again - thanks for that. I do have a remark regarding the transition altitude though. Transition altitude is only for climbing. If you're descending, you use a so called transition level (makes sense, because you're in STD and therefore flying flight levels and not altitudes). That transition level depends on the QNH but it is at least 1,000 ft above the transition altitude at all times for safety reasons. When I got the airbus and saw the APPR page, I was confused why it wants a TA. I looked it up on the forums and the common answer to that question is that it's misslabled and actually wants you to enter the transition layer. The calculations for the TRL are as follows: QNH below 977: TA + 3,000ft QNH 978-1,013: TA + 2,000ft QNH 1,014-1,050: TA + 1,000ft QNH above 1,051: TA + 0ft (source: Wikipedia) For this flight (TA = 4,000ft, QNH = 1,013) the TRL is therefore FL060, so the "Transition Altitude" setting in the CDU should actually be 6,000. Greetings from Germany, Moritz
Who else is using these videos to help with MSFS2020? I've been watching almost all of your videos on the FSX tutorial playlist and the A320 playlist. The amount of time and consideration put into these videos is remarkable. Thank you!!
I missed my top of descent so spent a while trying to manage my speed while the aircraft descended to FL100. By the time I realized that I could turn the autothrottle on to take care of the speed, it was time to land. I didn't have time to do anything more, I was less than 10nm from the runway so I turned off the AP and brought her in manually. Not the smoothest of landings being that I was too high and too fast but I managed it without a crash. First time ever in this aircraft so I'm well thrilled with myself. Thanks for the tutorials!
I'm not an expert in flying or whatsoever, but I can safely say that you seem to have a good understanding of what the many details on the displays have. I'm glad I found your videos so I can improve on my flight simming, at least on the aerosoft airbus series.
Thanks for these tutorials doofer911, really helped. I copied the route you took from Luton too Inverness. Amazed by the automation of the Airbus as I'm used to Boeings and smaller planes. I set it up as you showed for an auto landing at Inverness and switched off Autopilot at 300 ft to land myself when to be honest the autopilot was doing a great job only for me to botch the landing as wind pushed me to far to the left. Got it down but as Ras said 'Long landing'. This really is a wonderful addon. Thanks again.
It just takes practice. With time, you'll be able to ace every landing. RAAS is a very cool little add on. The full version gives you even more functionality but you need to buy it directly from the developer.
I basically followed your entire flight and followed your steps one by one and now I love flying this plane all the time😀😀 before it used to stress me out 😔
Very helpful and effective series, I've done my first Aerosoft flight following every single one of the steps you've did and everything was going alright! Just a question though, is it possible to implement the steps on the BlackBox A330 & A340?
I don't know I'm afraid, the procedures I used are slightly modified from the ones in Aerosoft's documentation for this plane. I imagine they'll be slightly different based on the fact that it's a different aircraft. Many similarities in the cockpits of each one, but they are different aircraft.
Hi Doofer911 many many thanks for the tutorials very much in details i always love to watch your tutorial video, thank you very much for your efforts i know its not very easy task, please could you do some tutorials for PMDG 747.
Man you're a legend. You don't know how much this helps people like me, I know you get this a lot but like wow. You're actually a legend man. You've helped me learn a lot of stuff about the A320 my favorite plane that I wish to get Type Rated on :D..and this surely helps me understand. My goal was that I get as much information about planes by 2019 and or August 2018 cause that's when I'll get on my flight to turkey, and I want to know everything then haha. Thanks man! Appreciate it. I always wondered how pilots know the time predictions and I never knew what the things near the Flight Plan meant..(The UTC one's..thanks you helped me a lot man!)
Why the speed is very near of overspeed ? Because when wind change quickly I'm in overspeed. I must to insert cost index 1 if I put 30 or 50 cost index I'm in overspeed. Other question about icing:is there a warning message when there is icing ?
Another good vid, really helpful for new players like me. What are some of the best planes (base game no mods) in your opinion, so far I like the cesner and crj700
Hi Doofer911, Keep doing it as always! Im really grateful to learn with you. Have a question, when you start the descent, there are two options: "Des" and "OpDes". What is the difference? Take care bud, thank you. Gonzalo
"Des" = Managed Descent Mode, where the flight management system will keep you on the correct vertical path and obey any Altitude constrains/restrictions along the way. "OpDes" = Open Descent Mode where the aircraft will simply Descend to the selected Altitude.
The difference between Des and OpDes - if I remember correctly - is that the first one performs according to the Vertical Speed settings and is also called Managed Descend, and the latter is the Open Descend, meaning to get the plane down as quickly as suitable.
thanks for your explanation. I used to fly Boeing and there the plane descents automatically when it reaches T/D. So I´m getting it right that at the Airbus you need initiate the descent always manually?
Your videos are brilliant. Despite following your tutorials, I'm struggling with coming to grips with the A320. I'm using SimBrief for the FP's, . The T/C and T/D appear listed in the FP on the MCDU. but for some reason the last few flights I've done, the T/C and T/D arrow markers haven't appeared on the ND screen - they used to appear Ok but have now disappeared. Any thoughts about what I might be missing? Another issue also on the same flights the plane isn't lining up with the ILS, though the markers on the Attitude Display appear to say everything is lined up. Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure what could be causing those problems I'm afraid, your best bet is to go to the Aerosoft forums and see if anyone there has had a similar issue.
hey man, love the tutorial. I was just wondering how the aircraft knows where you want to reach a certain inputted altitude (eg. 2000 for a loc intercept)... this has always confused me
Sir, I must say that you have made an excellent video.Each and every step has been explained very nicely. However, I have a doubt and I shall be highly obliged if the same is cleared. Pilots listen to ATIS message broadcast by the destination airport which apart from other information,also tells us which runway/runways are active for arrival. Say, the arrival airport has runway 11/29.While loading the flight plan at beginning, I configured Runway 11 for arrival.However, the ATIS message says Runway 29 is active for arrivals. How do I make necessary changes in the flight plan now? Sir please help in clearing my doubt.
By pushing the control, that will tell the plane to follow the ideal descent path calculated by the Flight Management System. If you pull the Altitude Control, then the plane will descend to the selected altitude as quickly as possible and disregard any altitude constraints along the arrival path.
hey, if i change my heading manually and then try to enable nav hold again the plane just turns in a random direction and continues going straight there
Just a quick question, at 17:28 i cant seem to find the value of the Baro on the ILS chart. Can you please help me out? For reference, im looking at LSZH ILS runway 16. Thank you sir for these amazing videos.
You are an epic youtuber! Answering comments within hours with a perfect video like that :P Was about to quit FSX until i found your videos. Thanks DOOFER911. Subscribed
I'm not sure, Aerosoft's documentation and procedures weren't the clearest and the Aerosoft Airbus isn't the most comprehensive A320 add on available so I'm not sure if these procedures would apply to a more complex simulation of the plane.
Great video, but i have a couple of questions. How do i find out which altitude i should initially descend to, and when i try to descend, the aircraft is always too high once i get on final approach. How can I sort this out? Thanks.
You'll need to look up aviation charts for the airport and runway you're landing on. Just search the airport's ICAO code on google. For example at London Heathrow, search "EGLL charts"
I have a question. When I set the crew level 30000 ft and it kept claiming and claiming and also master alarm kept sound every times. Did you know what that is?
Hey, Doofer, many thanks for your videos, I really appreciate the precision and time that you take for making these impeccable tutorials. However, I was wondering if you could help me with a problem, particularly concerning the climbing process of the A340 (freeware available at Rikooo). I try to reach the cruise altitude for a long-range flight plan (410FL, from Philadelphia Intl. to Doha Intl.) but the autothrottle will keep reducing the speed until the aircraft stalls. I try to speed up manually, but from about 330FL the aircraft won’t gain speed and I will keep the throttle to 100% without exceeding the 260 KIAS. I don’t know if it is normal to cruise at that speed and with my nose sloped 5° to 10° as well. I have checked the pitot for these flights, the fuel, and weather conditions, and still I get the same results. Any idea of what I am doing wrong? Thank you very much in advance!
The plane's too heavy to cruise that high early into the flight. Generally for a long haul flight, a plane will take off and cruise at a relatively low cruising altitude to begin with (FL330 for example). Then as the flight and the plane burns off more fuel and becomes lighter, it then allows the plane to climb a little higher to FL350 for example. Then after a couple more hours of flying, the plane burns off more fuel and climbs to FL370. It's called a Step Climb and all long range flights do it.
"the information I give may be incorrect or inaccurate and should NOT be used as a reference for real world flying." -- strange thing becuz it works well on my 180kts approach in my Cessna xD
Hello Doofer911, I wanted to ask a question: does the plane automatically calculate the top of descent while the flight plan is being inserted into the MCDU? Thanks!
I have a crazy issue. When I'm climbing, everything is fine in the plane. But as soon as I level off, my speed suddenly increases past max speed and my plane begins to go up then down. I made sure all systems on the FCU that needed Dashes * Balls was done. But it's frustrating as it happens every time.
270 knots indicated airspeed, at high altitude the air density is lower so it's the "equivalent" of 270 knots of air hitting the plane. But at Altitude, planes use a fraction of a Mach for speed
Just the steady winds but if there were reports of gusts, you would make a note of those somewhere just so they're expected during approach and landing.
Depends, If you're flying under VFR conditions or flying in uncontrolled airspace then you can... however if you're in controlled airspace then you can't, although a pilot is well within their right to ask ATC if they can change heading to avoid weather.
Well, I am no expert but that does happen to me sometimes as well I think hit could be turbulence or your aircraft is not coping with the altitude bear in mind I might be wrong:)
Was it constant or intermittent? If intermittent, It's most likely turbulence. Even with the weather set to something nice like "Fair Weather", the aircraft will sometimes jolt because of how weather is loaded into the simulator. It kind of draws weather in large "boxes" over the land. When you pass from one "box" into another, it can sometimes jolt the plane.
As mentioned above, it could be turbulence. Or if you overspeed, the aircraft will automatically nose-up and gain some altitude. Once the speed drops below the "overspeed" level, it'll pitch down and begin descending to the altitude set into the autopilot. During this process, it gains speed once again, and the process repeats over and over again. The first time it happened to me, I didn't know what to do so I just rage quit. Spoilers can come in handy during these situations.
Doofer911 HELP!!!! I SET IT TO FAIR WEATHER DID EVERYTHING RIGHT THE PROBLEM IS AS SOON AS I REACH MY CRUSING ALTITUDE MASTER WARNING COMES UP SHORTLY THE AIRBUS A320 STARTS TO VIBRATE RAPIDLY AND STARTS TO CLIMB AND WHEN IT DESENDEDS TO THE CRUISING ALT THE OVERSPEED WARNING COMES UP AND STARTS TO CLIMB AGAIN HELP ME AS SOON AS YOU CAN PLEASE!!!!!!!!
I have the problem that when i start the Descent i don't have the 2 pink lines for my speed and the Airplane don't hold the pink dot right i Descent to fast or sometimes to slow... Have anyone a idea ?
I may look into it but it's a complex topic. Airlines normally have a dedicated team of people who plan flights and those people calculate the Cost Index based on many factors, such as flight time, whether the aircraft has been delayed and needs to make up time, weather, route, cost of fuel etc. For simplicity, some airlines just use the same Cost Index across every single flight. I may look into it though because it's an interesting subject to learn about
Help me please .my plane does not pull down so much and it crosses runway so I need to do it with hand as and when to turn parallel to runway pls help me I can't land a plane perfectly
Is it normal every plane that I fly to go up and down around 300m over and over again while on autopilot? After i have already reached my crushing altitude.
@@Doofer911 I really adore you. Complex machines..you make so simple. I have already joined your fan club. You are one of the best instructors out there.
When I start my descent (I change the altitude of the autopilot to the final altitude before landing) the aircraft overspeeds and the master caution warns me...then the autopilot pitches the nose up to lower the speed again...so eventually I always end up at the same altitude and can't land at the destination airport. I don't know what I'm doing wrong...can somebody help me?
That’s an Airbus problem in the real world as well. If you pass the top of descent and push for managed descent the aircraft will chase the descent profile and disregard the speed. Instead of using managed descent, pull (right click) for open descent.
This got my first flight smoothly running, but for some reason when I try installing new liveries onto the A320X it won't show up and the livery manager crashes.
Hey! I hope someone can help me: When i am in a flight (crz altitude) i have a problem, the airplane goes at the speed that HE (the airplane) wants, not mine, and during all the flight, the a/thr only accelerates and desacelerates the airplane, I'm going to become crazy, i don't know if i'm doing something wrong with the MCDU or something, please, help.
That's normal, the flight computers calculate the best speed automatically based on information you typed into the MCDU. If you want to manually control the speed, Pull the Speed controls on the Control Panel so that you get a number displayed, not just dashes.
It depends. If you're directly above the localiser, you'll be 10,000ft away. Depending on your horizontal distance away from the localiser, you'll be looking at relatively simple Pythagorean Theory to calculate your slant distance to the localiser.
I don't have a A330 add on however looking at cockpit pictures, it appears to be a very similar layout to the A320 family so I imagine procedures would be very similar.
As Always Doofer, a great series of videos, very informative and so easy to learn by, be interested to see a Embraer Phenom 300, if you ever get a free couple of hours? Great!!
This series on Aerosoft's A320 is quite educational as you know your stuff both as a simmer and a video editor. Please note that we are grateful for your time and effort to feed us with these tutorials. I personally look forward to seeing some companies like PMDG or iFly to sponsor you. Best wishes.
Thanks Fatih, glad to know my videos are helping someone :)
Awesome video once again - thanks for that. I do have a remark regarding the transition altitude though.
Transition altitude is only for climbing. If you're descending, you use a so called transition level (makes sense, because you're in STD and therefore flying flight levels and not altitudes). That transition level depends on the QNH but it is at least 1,000 ft above the transition altitude at all times for safety reasons. When I got the airbus and saw the APPR page, I was confused why it wants a TA. I looked it up on the forums and the common answer to that question is that it's misslabled and actually wants you to enter the transition layer.
The calculations for the TRL are as follows:
QNH below 977: TA + 3,000ft
QNH 978-1,013: TA + 2,000ft
QNH 1,014-1,050: TA + 1,000ft
QNH above 1,051: TA + 0ft
(source: Wikipedia)
For this flight (TA = 4,000ft, QNH = 1,013) the TRL is therefore FL060, so the "Transition Altitude" setting in the CDU should actually be 6,000.
Greetings from Germany,
Moritz
Who else is using these videos to help with MSFS2020? I've been watching almost all of your videos on the FSX tutorial playlist and the A320 playlist. The amount of time and consideration put into these videos is remarkable. Thank you!!
I missed my top of descent so spent a while trying to manage my speed while the aircraft descended to FL100. By the time I realized that I could turn the autothrottle on to take care of the speed, it was time to land. I didn't have time to do anything more, I was less than 10nm from the runway so I turned off the AP and brought her in manually. Not the smoothest of landings being that I was too high and too fast but I managed it without a crash. First time ever in this aircraft so I'm well thrilled with myself. Thanks for the tutorials!
Congrats! I'm sure you've heard the old saying, "Any landing you can walk away from is a good one." haha
I'm not an expert in flying or whatsoever, but I can safely say that you seem to have a good understanding of what the many details on the displays have. I'm glad I found your videos so I can improve on my flight simming, at least on the aerosoft airbus series.
Simply the best tutorial for the AS 320 family..
Thanks for these tutorials doofer911, really helped. I copied the route you took from Luton too Inverness. Amazed by the automation of the Airbus as I'm used to Boeings and smaller planes. I set it up as you showed for an auto landing at Inverness and switched off Autopilot at 300 ft to land myself when to be honest the autopilot was doing a great job only for me to botch the landing as wind pushed me to far to the left. Got it down but as Ras said 'Long landing'. This really is a wonderful addon. Thanks again.
It just takes practice. With time, you'll be able to ace every landing. RAAS is a very cool little add on. The full version gives you even more functionality but you need to buy it directly from the developer.
Thank you ver much for these tutorials. Always there's a little thing that you don't know!
Probably one of the best set of tutorial video's for any plane on youtube!! Thank you!! Liked and subscribed.
You're welcome, glad you liked the series! Put a lot of time and effort into it! haha
Very nice presentation.👍
How you zoom the cockpit, the way you do in this presentation.?
How I can insert the Map in the cockpit view?
Very good tutorial. I believe that button is the Progress not program page though...22:42
It could very well be, I've not looked at a proper FCOM for the Airbus 320.
I basically followed your entire flight and followed your steps one by one and now I love flying this plane all the time😀😀 before it used to stress me out 😔
Very helpful and effective series, I've done my first Aerosoft flight following every single one of the steps you've did and everything was going alright!
Just a question though, is it possible to implement the steps on the BlackBox A330 & A340?
I don't know I'm afraid, the procedures I used are slightly modified from the ones in Aerosoft's documentation for this plane. I imagine they'll be slightly different based on the fact that it's a different aircraft. Many similarities in the cockpits of each one, but they are different aircraft.
Really detailed and useful information. Keep up the good work!
I'm glad you liked the video :)
Hi Doofer911 many many thanks for the tutorials very much in details i always love to watch your tutorial video, thank you very much for your efforts i know its not very easy task, please could you do some tutorials for PMDG 747.
Yeah I will do them in a few months time. Got some other bits and pieces planned in the mean time.
Thanks Doofer911. Looking forward to see the approach and landing.
Excellent video tutorial... thank you!
thank you so much Captain for a good video , relay I learned a lot of information specially the Decent OPERATION
this tutorial series is great, I use it for msfs2020 a32nx and everything works great, especially explanations are very clear :)
please make videos on selected and managed approach and emergency thanks
Man you're a legend.
You don't know how much this helps people like me, I know you get this a lot but like wow. You're actually a legend man.
You've helped me learn a lot of stuff about the A320 my favorite plane that I wish to get Type Rated on :D..and this surely helps me understand. My goal was that I get as much information about planes by 2019 and or August 2018 cause that's when I'll get on my flight to turkey, and I want to know everything then haha. Thanks man! Appreciate it.
I always wondered how pilots know the time predictions and I never knew what the things near the Flight Plan meant..(The UTC one's..thanks you helped me a lot man!)
No problem mate, best of luck in your quest to become an A320 pilot!!
These videos are extremely useful, thank you!
Why the speed is very near of overspeed ? Because when wind change quickly I'm in overspeed.
I must to insert cost index 1 if I put 30 or 50 cost index I'm in overspeed.
Other question about icing:is there a warning message when there is icing ?
Another great video sir! Thanks for sharing your knowledge to help us inexperienced flight simmers.
its nice training.i liked to be a pilot.can you explain the different types of lights and the dangers of flight engines
I've already done a video explaining lights and how an engine works. If you search through my video history, you should be able to find them.
Another good vid, really helpful for new players like me.
What are some of the best planes (base game no mods) in your opinion, so far I like the cesner and crj700
Going to have to go with the Cessna as well. Everyone who's done flight sim has made their name in the Cessna :)
Hi Doofer911,
Keep doing it as always! Im really grateful to learn with you.
Have a question, when you start the descent, there are two options: "Des" and "OpDes". What is the difference?
Take care bud, thank you.
Gonzalo
"Des" = Managed Descent Mode, where the flight management system will keep you on the correct vertical path and obey any Altitude constrains/restrictions along the way. "OpDes" = Open Descent Mode where the aircraft will simply Descend to the selected Altitude.
The difference between Des and OpDes - if I remember correctly - is that the first one performs according to the Vertical Speed settings and is also called Managed Descend, and the latter is the Open Descend, meaning to get the plane down as quickly as suitable.
Thank you very much for helping me understand this great plane.
You're welcome, glad I could help!
thanks for your explanation. I used to fly Boeing and there the plane descents automatically when it reaches T/D. So I´m getting it right that at the Airbus you need initiate the descent always manually?
great video! this is exactly what i wanted to know! subscribed and want more videos like this!
Isn't the minimums your Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA) which is in the approach chart?
MDA or DA, first is barometric, second from radio altimeter.
Really helpful. Exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!!!
can you do a video on your rex settings?
Fantastic, just what i needed. Subscribed.
Really glad this video could help, welcome to the channel :)
Your videos are brilliant. Despite following your tutorials, I'm struggling with coming to grips with the A320. I'm using SimBrief for the FP's, . The T/C and T/D appear listed in the FP on the MCDU. but for some reason the last few flights I've done, the T/C and T/D arrow markers haven't appeared on the ND screen - they used to appear Ok but have now disappeared. Any thoughts about what I might be missing? Another issue also on the same flights the plane isn't lining up with the ILS, though the markers on the Attitude Display appear to say everything is lined up. Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure what could be causing those problems I'm afraid, your best bet is to go to the Aerosoft forums and see if anyone there has had a similar issue.
hey man, love the tutorial. I was just wondering how the aircraft knows where you want to reach a certain inputted altitude (eg. 2000 for a loc intercept)... this has always confused me
How do I set those blue arrows for climb and decent using a default airbus?
Sir, I must say that you have made an excellent video.Each and every step has been explained very nicely.
However, I have a doubt and I shall be highly obliged if the same is cleared.
Pilots listen to ATIS message broadcast by the destination airport which apart from other information,also tells us which runway/runways are active for arrival.
Say, the arrival airport has runway 11/29.While loading the flight plan at beginning, I configured Runway 11 for arrival.However, the ATIS message says Runway 29 is active for arrivals.
How do I make necessary changes in the flight plan now?
Sir please help in clearing my doubt.
Yep, you would need to change for the active runway. Simply go to the airport way point on the F-PLN page and re-select the runway and approach.
Thanks for the video
I didn't understand why you need to push the attitude hold and not pull @ 19:48 ? Can you elaborate on that pls?
By pushing the control, that will tell the plane to follow the ideal descent path calculated by the Flight Management System. If you pull the Altitude Control, then the plane will descend to the selected altitude as quickly as possible and disregard any altitude constraints along the arrival path.
Thank you.
hey, if i change my heading manually and then try to enable nav hold again the plane just turns in a random direction and continues going straight there
your vids are great thx they help so much
i accidentally pushed the appr phase mid air and it keeps on decelearting even i set the aircraft to accelerate on the athr
Just a quick question, at 17:28 i cant seem to find the value of the Baro on the ILS chart. Can you please help me out? For reference, im looking at LSZH ILS runway 16. Thank you sir for these amazing videos.
Normally the Baro Minimums are at the bottom of the chart. This video might help you out: ua-cam.com/video/CderHSd3gvQ/v-deo.html
You are an epic youtuber! Answering comments within hours with a perfect video like that :P Was about to quit FSX until i found your videos. Thanks DOOFER911. Subscribed
No problem, speaking to viewers is the most important part for me! I'm glad my videos could help, welcome to the channel! :D
does your series on airbus relate to laminar research airbus? are procedures the same from cold & dark to landing?
I'm not sure, Aerosoft's documentation and procedures weren't the clearest and the Aerosoft Airbus isn't the most comprehensive A320 add on available so I'm not sure if these procedures would apply to a more complex simulation of the plane.
Great video, but i have a couple of questions. How do i find out which altitude i should initially descend to, and when i try to descend, the aircraft is always too high once i get on final approach. How can I sort this out? Thanks.
I normally descend to the altitude you intercept the glideslope at.
Doofer911 sorry to be a pain but how do i find out which altitude to intercept the glideslope? Cheers
You'll need to look up aviation charts for the airport and runway you're landing on. Just search the airport's ICAO code on google. For example at London Heathrow, search "EGLL charts"
Doofer911 thankyou very much
I have a question. When I set the crew level 30000 ft and it kept claiming and claiming and also master alarm kept sound every times. Did you know what that is?
Did you pull the throttles back to the "CLB" position?
Doofer911 which I had joystick and I did but have to try again
Doofer911 it’s working and think you
Why I’m I not getting the top of climb and top of decent?
what if there were clouds on the runway you will be landing in
Depends on the RVR (Runway Visual Range) and whether it's safe for the aircraft to land.
Auto land
Hey, Doofer, many thanks for your videos, I really appreciate the precision and time that you take for making these impeccable tutorials. However, I was wondering if you could help me with a problem, particularly concerning the climbing process of the A340 (freeware available at Rikooo).
I try to reach the cruise altitude for a long-range flight plan (410FL, from Philadelphia Intl. to Doha Intl.) but the autothrottle will keep reducing the speed until the aircraft stalls. I try to speed up manually, but from about 330FL the aircraft won’t gain speed and I will keep the throttle to 100% without exceeding the 260 KIAS. I don’t know if it is normal to cruise at that speed and with my nose sloped 5° to 10° as well. I have checked the pitot for these flights, the fuel, and weather conditions, and still I get the same results. Any idea of what I am doing wrong? Thank you very much in advance!
The plane's too heavy to cruise that high early into the flight. Generally for a long haul flight, a plane will take off and cruise at a relatively low cruising altitude to begin with (FL330 for example). Then as the flight and the plane burns off more fuel and becomes lighter, it then allows the plane to climb a little higher to FL350 for example. Then after a couple more hours of flying, the plane burns off more fuel and climbs to FL370. It's called a Step Climb and all long range flights do it.
Excellent tutorial Doofer
which key uses for elevator and rudder
"the information I give may be incorrect or inaccurate and should NOT be used as a reference for real world flying." -- strange thing becuz it works well on my 180kts approach in my Cessna xD
Can a Cessna even go that fast?!
@@Doofer911 maybe as TAS at FL300 xDDD (kinda hyper long range final)
Excellent work D
Hello Doofer911, I wanted to ask a question: does the plane automatically calculate the top of descent while the flight plan is being inserted into the MCDU? Thanks!
Yes it will do based on the Approach routing that's been programmed in.
I can’t change from climbe into crz mode how do i do this?
can a plane weight it self? like measure how much pressure there is on its wheel's pneumatic while on the ground?
Not to my knowledge but there may be something out there that can do it.
very helpful m8, thank you...
I have a crazy issue. When I'm climbing, everything is fine in the plane. But as soon as I level off, my speed suddenly increases past max speed and my plane begins to go up then down. I made sure all systems on the FCU that needed Dashes * Balls was done. But it's frustrating as it happens every time.
Check your throttle is in the Climb (CL) detent. Also, ensure your autothrottle (A/THR) button is green (on).
9:46 are you sure that's 270 knots and not 270 m/s? Because mach is pretty high for 270 knots
270 knots indicated airspeed, at high altitude the air density is lower so it's the "equivalent" of 270 knots of air hitting the plane. But at Altitude, planes use a fraction of a Mach for speed
@@Doofer911 Thank you! This tutorial series was such a joy to watch and learn!
Where do you get those approach charts?
Is this a program that you can buy or something?
Use Google
do you gusting winds on fmc for approach or the steady winds???
Just the steady winds but if there were reports of gusts, you would make a note of those somewhere just so they're expected during approach and landing.
Excellent... thanks.
Can you change course to avoid any possible weather, without asking permission from ATC?
Depends, If you're flying under VFR conditions or flying in uncontrolled airspace then you can... however if you're in controlled airspace then you can't, although a pilot is well within their right to ask ATC if they can change heading to avoid weather.
when i was cruising the nose kept on going up and down
Well, I am no expert but that does happen to me sometimes as well I think hit could be turbulence or your aircraft is not coping with the altitude bear in mind I might be wrong:)
Was it constant or intermittent? If intermittent, It's most likely turbulence. Even with the weather set to something nice like "Fair Weather", the aircraft will sometimes jolt because of how weather is loaded into the simulator. It kind of draws weather in large "boxes" over the land. When you pass from one "box" into another, it can sometimes jolt the plane.
As mentioned above, it could be turbulence. Or if you overspeed, the aircraft will automatically nose-up and gain some altitude. Once the speed drops below the "overspeed" level, it'll pitch down and begin descending to the altitude set into the autopilot. During this process, it gains speed once again, and the process repeats over and over again. The first time it happened to me, I didn't know what to do so I just rage quit. Spoilers can come in handy during these situations.
I think that is right because the engines also go louder and softer.
Doofer911 HELP!!!! I SET IT TO FAIR WEATHER DID EVERYTHING RIGHT THE PROBLEM IS AS SOON AS I REACH MY CRUSING ALTITUDE MASTER WARNING COMES UP SHORTLY THE AIRBUS A320 STARTS TO VIBRATE RAPIDLY AND STARTS TO CLIMB AND WHEN IT DESENDEDS TO THE CRUISING ALT THE OVERSPEED WARNING COMES UP AND STARTS TO CLIMB AGAIN HELP ME AS SOON AS YOU CAN PLEASE!!!!!!!!
Great video thanks!
You're welcome, glad the video could help :)
Thanks
I have the problem that when i start the Descent i don't have the 2 pink lines for my speed and the Airplane don't hold the pink dot right i Descent to fast or sometimes to slow... Have anyone a idea ?
Are you having A/THR on and managed speed set? (push the Speed knob on FCU)
Great video :)
Hey could you please explain How to calculate the Cost Index?
I may look into it but it's a complex topic. Airlines normally have a dedicated team of people who plan flights and those people calculate the Cost Index based on many factors, such as flight time, whether the aircraft has been delayed and needs to make up time, weather, route, cost of fuel etc. For simplicity, some airlines just use the same Cost Index across every single flight. I may look into it though because it's an interesting subject to learn about
Help me please .my plane does not pull down so much and it crosses runway so I need to do it with hand as and when to turn parallel to runway pls help me I can't land a plane perfectly
Learn the basics of ILS landings in a light aircraft first then progress to a larger plane.
does the a320 have vnav and lnav like the boeing planes thanks
Yes it does :)
Hey doofer911 what video format do you record in? and what editing software do you use?
Record to MP4, use Sony Movie Studio Platinum for editing.
Is it normal every plane that I fly to go up and down around 300m over and over again while on autopilot? After i have already reached my crushing altitude.
If the plane isn't behaving as expected, you may need to contact the developer for tech support.
how do u get the checklist? or is it something u edited into the video?
It was edited in.
Thanks your really helpful!!! 👍🙂
I'm glad, video came out as it was designed :D
@@Doofer911 also on the pmdg 737 I can't figure out why the autopilot would not engage on takeoff.
I want to learn flying from you. Please make my dream come true.
You can certainly learn to fly virtually with me 😄
@@Doofer911 I really adore you. Complex machines..you make so simple. I have already joined your fan club. You are one of the best instructors out there.
When I start my descent (I change the altitude of the autopilot to the final altitude before landing) the aircraft overspeeds and the master caution warns me...then the autopilot pitches the nose up to lower the speed again...so eventually I always end up at the same altitude and can't land at the destination airport. I don't know what I'm doing wrong...can somebody help me?
Best to contact tech support if the plane isn't behaving as expected.
That’s an Airbus problem in the real world as well. If you pass the top of descent and push for managed descent the aircraft will chase the descent profile and disregard the speed. Instead of using managed descent, pull (right click) for open descent.
This got my first flight smoothly running, but for some reason when I try installing new liveries onto the A320X it won't show up and the livery manager crashes.
You'd need to speak to the developer about that.
I found out my issue. Apparently I have to install it twice while the rest is single.
Hey! I hope someone can help me:
When i am in a flight (crz altitude) i have a problem, the airplane goes at the speed that HE (the airplane) wants, not mine, and during all the flight, the a/thr only accelerates and desacelerates the airplane, I'm going to become crazy, i don't know if i'm doing something wrong with the MCDU or something, please, help.
That's normal, the flight computers calculate the best speed automatically based on information you typed into the MCDU. If you want to manually control the speed, Pull the Speed controls on the Control Panel so that you get a number displayed, not just dashes.
You forgot to turn on the fasten seatbelt sign before decent lol jk good vid
What's the distance to the localiser at 10k feet of altitude
It depends. If you're directly above the localiser, you'll be 10,000ft away. Depending on your horizontal distance away from the localiser, you'll be looking at relatively simple Pythagorean Theory to calculate your slant distance to the localiser.
Can you do A330 tutorial
I don't have a A330 add on however looking at cockpit pictures, it appears to be a very similar layout to the A320 family so I imagine procedures would be very similar.
I just this airplane and I cannot use it. It sucks up too much memory.
As Always Doofer, a great series of videos, very informative and so easy to learn by, be interested to see a Embraer Phenom 300, if you ever get a free couple of hours? Great!!
I'll certainly look at Embraer aircraft, a few people have been asking about their aircraft.
who would dislike this?
Boeing guys :p
Parents who don't want their children to be pilots
@@IntellectualHazard well i mean becoming a pilot costs a LOT of money... so I wouldn't judge parents who couldn't afford that
this is flight simulator x right...what's your graphics card, and do you use addons, because your fix looks soo realistic
Graphics card is an Nvidia 780Ti. I use REX Essentials for the weather textures and Ultimate Terrain X to improve some of the land textures.
Graphics card is an Nvidia 780Ti. I use REX Essentials for the weather textures and Ultimate Terrain X to improve some of the land textures.
Thanks!
No problem!
How do u put in ILS frequency?
It's tuned automatically if you have chosen the approach in FMGS.
By the way, excellent videos, like and sub!
Thx for this great Turorial now i can make many safe landings ^^ Greetings from Germany :)
I'm glad my video could help :)
It is necessary to add the Spanish language also in this video. Thanks a lot
I've tried your ways step by step but my aircraft still has it's own mind and does not follow the commands. :(
My plane doesn't follow the flight plan and it doesn't even show up on the radar..
Engage the Autopilot and ensure you have the correct Transponder code entered.
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Hi, enjoyed the video. However, t isn't really flying. Its programming a computer.
Yes, now aviation is more and more automatic.
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