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@@VonycBln if the ATC isn’t online though it is just uncontrolled airspace which would just be class G. I get they might get funny but they weren’t there to control you. So as long as you are monitoring something like a VatSim map I see no issue. IRL I can count on probably 1 hand how many times I have fully followed a SID from LGW

@@My320Sim But it happens on vatsim when they come online that they advise you to maintain the constraints :)

@@VonycBln I guess it can be a risk. Personally I rarely continue the SID on MSFS if there are no controllers online because to me it’s uncontrolled airspace, once handed from tower to Unicom I will do my own thing, ie climb to cruise unrestricted and take a shortcut if possible, being aware of other passing traffic to not cause issues. If ATC then choose to come online I will just advise them what I am doing. I find VatSim takes itself way too seriously. More seriously than real life, which sadly ruins the experience at times. Don’t let the flight simulator ATC bully you out of flying the aircraft when you’re perfectly right to fly where and how you like in uncontrolled airspace! Remember that you are the pilot flying the aircraft and ATC is there to help you. Ultimately it is up to you what and where you fly ;) if they want something different when they log on, they should advise you after you tell them your current intentions. In the case of the LAM6M SID shortcut I would advise ATC when they log on, on initial contact “XYZ climbing FL120 direct BPK” and let them issue you a different clearance if needed. I hope this helps, wishing you blue skies and happy landings! Cheers, Sam

@@CarlosGarcia-be4td Hi, thanks for your comment. There are plenty of tutorials online about how to create simple mobiflight/flight sim circuitry and hardware, I used these tutorials to build this sim, so feel no need explain in depth what others have already covered. That said, I do have a video on my channel about wiring in pushbuttons and switches like the ones used in this overhead. Please also bare in mind this is an old video. I also have plenty of comments who have asked about how I make these things, to which I have given detailed replies. I’d recommend to check them out!

@@mr.airspace hi! Thanks for the comment. For the LGW speeds etc, it varies I guess with what aircraft you are flying but director will generally get you back to 220 knots and then 180 until established on final, at which point it’s 160 to 4. I see in the Airfield AOI that it says speed between 180-160 knots. There was a NOTAM enforced late last year though requiring 160 knots by 7DME and maintained til 4. I can’t vouch if this is still current - not yet at least. Gatwick does vary a bit from other places. The AOIs for some airports demand speed management and the ATC will just expect it, places like Barcelona or Amsterdam for example, but other airports like Pisa or other smaller places, they don’t tend to have published speed management so it comes down to pilot preference. You may find going into these places that one crew may wish to do an ILS at 160 to 4 or they may wish to do 180 to 6, or just fly it fully speed managed on the Airbus and decelerate with it. I personally prefer 160 to 4 but it’s not something you can always do. For Gatwick though and especially in the Airbus 319/320 you would be looking to fly clean at the 220, then decelerate to 180 taking flaps 1, if your S speed is just above 180 then you can select 180 and fly just under S speed but if managed in terms of speed it won’t go below S speed. Anyway, I digress. Then they keep you 180 to turn final, so to plan ahead you take flap 2 when the Glideslope indicator is 1 dot above, then take 160 when told. For straight in, I have only had it once or twice but they say to keep high speed, so we ended up doing 250 knots down to an established base leg to like 3000’, speed brakes out and it still wasn’t enough, so we dropped the speed off and got to flaps 2, took the gear and it was all good all before even turning localiser, sometimes they will push it when they try to give you a quicker arrival, but it’s key to remember that if it isn’t something you feel is going well then fly the plane first and relay it to ATC. After all we are the ones flying it and not them! That said it’s always been a well run and efficient experience into LGW and the same can be said on VatSim, they do a great job of controlling it and it’s very close to reality!

@@My320Sim Super thanks a lot! Love your comprehensive answer ☺

@@Xein42 Thanks Zein, 6 axis would be pretty sweet. Not sure my woodworking skills would hold up to motion though and all the joints would come crumbling down 😂

@@Xein42 maybe CAE can give me a job with their sims if it comes to that point😬👀

@@buzzzudemd hello, thanks for the comment. My hardware works with the FBW A32NX and the Fenix Airbuses. The only thing that has issues is the CPFlight FCU. It doesn’t work with the Fenix airbuses. They might be releasing an update soon though I hope. It works with the FlyByWire but with limitations. I plan to change to the WinWing FCU and glareshield. Otherwise all works with the FBW, though the RMP was a nightmare to set up

@@ustyboy_11 hello, I use under cabinet led lighting. They come as small round light disks which plug into the mains, I then cut a circle of cardboard out and in that I cut out a small triangle to allow the light through. The cardboard was then stuck over the light fixture to create the effect. It works fairly well but doesn’t dim - at least yet - I might fit a dimmer one day

@@Mkvy hi thank you for the comment. I also wish to say thank you for such an amazing Gatwick airport addon! It really captures the feel of Gatwick, I love your work! I cannot comment on the air bridges as I haven’t been at work for the past 6 months but I did notice when heading on holiday a couple of months ago that south terminal had all been blanked out and freshly painted grey. I guess the HSBC era is coming to an end. Either way, it’s great seeing all the updates you provide. From someone who flies out of LGW for work, I can whole heartedly say it is very very accurate, a perfect rendition! I wasn’t aware of the Uber branding coming but look forward to your future updates :)

@@marvinbrooks2601 I might make a captains side one day but it’s on the back burner for now - space for it is the main limitation

@@sgiuello just MSFS pop outs with Pop Out Panel Manager

@@DenverCenterSim hi thank you for the comment. I use Pop Out Panel Manager to get the screens in the right place and like you I also get a big FPS hit. I have set basically minimal settings and use an AutoFPS tool that affects the LOD based on Altitude, on top of that I have DX12 running which helps a bit and then have tweaked the Nvidia control panel settings, but also run Lossless Scaling. Lossless Scaling makes the biggest difference. I go from between 15 to 20fps on the ground to as high as 60 to 80 with it. It makes a huge difference. I hope this helps. I run off an old i7-6700k and GTX1080 8GB

@@My320Sim I also used lossless scaling, but it was quite unreliable, and caused many CTDs! I am now using the insim frame gen, with AutoFPS 🙂

Awesome, sounds good! Should be a lot easier if it isn’t needing any lights to work!

Hi Alex. I am glad you enjoyed the video. I agree, nothing like wood, switches and arduinos! Making it yourself is a lot more satisfying than buying I think, cheaper too. But at the same time it’s a long long process. Anyway, I think we are all on our quest for more realism and any kind of physical switch and button helps with that! :) cheers!

@@saytoga Hi, the displays in the Main Panels are 2x 13.3” displays off Amazon. The main display is a 49” Electriq ultrawide curved monitor. All displays are HDMI with the exception of the 49” which is a DP cable

@@ToxinuousTT A lot of stutters. The sim runs pretty bad on my PC. I have to use lossless scaling but with VatSim traffic I get low stutters frames on approaches. I run old hardware though; an i7-6700k and GTX1080

​@My320Sim oh I got worse i5 7600k with 1060 6gb😂

@@My320Sim Do you use the Dynamic LOD application?

@@ToxinuousTT Thank you for the comment! Lol perhaps, but I have actually been doing the build on the cheap. As cheap as I can. Switches were imported in bulk from china and the wood for the panels was actually the backing panels to some IKEA furniture. I have tried to keep costs as low as possible :)

Pls make me one hahaha

@@My320Sim how'd u create the overhead panel

@@ToxinuousTT it’s all scratch built with wood. The wood was cut into the individual panels using real dimensions and then holes drilled for buttons and switches. Then painted and all wired in, then mounted to a frame. After that it was just a case of building a framework to hold it over the pedestal area

​@My320Sim how much did it cost you on average and I could be asking to much but could you also link all the ovhd parts u bought ❤

@@mr.airspace hi, thank you! The FCU was one I bought a while ago, it’s a second hand CP Flight unit which I got back in 2019. I used to have a 737 MCP and EFIS which I traded in against the FCU and glareshield. In all honesty I cannot recommend the unit from CP Flight, the push-pull functions aren’t like the real thing and the unit itself relies on the CP Flight driver. The driver works for the FBW A32NX but with a lot of limitations, eg the chrono button will crash FSUIPC, the Master Warning lights have the issues mentioned in the video. The company said a few months ago that they now support the Fenix Airbus with it too. It doesn’t work at all with that aircraft, I uploaded a video with the issues on my channel for them to address and a month ago they said they would look into it after their holidays. Nothing has happened yet though so their support isn’t good either. I saw on Facebook other people with the same issues. I’m looking forward to the WinWing units. I plan to replace the whole glareshield with them as they work out of the box. Plus, the WinWing stuff has mobiflight support, which (for me) means that it will work with the panels I have built, not requiring another software to run. Sorry it’s a long answer but no I didn’t build the FCU, although I’m sure if I had it would work much better than this one! 🤣 The WingFlex unit does look incredible though but sadly it is very expensive!

@@My320Sim Thanks for the detailed reply ☺In fact I ordered the WinWing FCU beginning of May and still waiting. So not sure what is going on there either, but at least their product reviews are indeed great :)

@@NoNameUK hello Alex, thank you for your comment! I am planning to do another update video soon which should cover the latest additions to the sim, things like the CPDLC/DCDU and pedestal box and fittings, I will cover the ECAM switching panel too and will take a look at the AutoBrake panel too for you. Should hopefully get around to it this week sometime. Cheers, Sam

@@My320Sim Thanks Sam, thats much apreciated. Its videos like this that keeps everyone motivated in their build. Great to see another UK builder too (and another Airbus). Thank you👍

@@_PSantos Thank you for the kind words! It’s really appreciated. I will do another update soon as a lot has changed! :)

@@ToxinuousTT haha with a lot of time and effort! 🤣 still a lot left to do though!

@@My320SimDid you half and half with what you bought and what you built? Also about how much did this all cost to build? I’m curious because I wanted to build one similar but for the 737 instead.

@@Delta_310 hi, I say go for it! If you have the time and patience. It’s taken about 4 months to this point and a lot of tedious bits. I had an FCU and glareshield setup from years ago, and I also got the throttle and flaps/spoiler unit from eBay but they are FlightSimPM units which are pre-made. The RMP is OpenCockpits too which is pre-made. As of course is the joystick and rudder pedals. The MCDU is from A320FCU, a 3D printed unit which has an arduino and interfaces with Mobiflight. Aside from that it’s all built from wood and patience. So probably at the moment about 75-80% DIY. The whole overhead was built from scratch, as was the main instrument panel. Cost wise I don’t think it was too bad as finances are a little tight at the moment, it’s probably cost a few hundred across the 4 months to get the materials to build, switches and wire, arduinos etc. but that few hundred doesn’t factor the cost of the throttle, RMP or FCU but really I don’t feel they count as I had them a long time prior to building the thing. But with them items included then yeah it adds up real quick even with them all second hand!

@@dusz9194 check out my other video about how to wire the LED pushbutton switches - it also mentions how to set them up in Mobiflight to interface with the sim :)

@@My320Sim thanks

@@lxnnar1287 Hello, it is an Elecrow screen - 5” 800x480 designed for raspberry pi but works with windows, it’s on offer at £26.99 at the moment on Amazon. It has a HDMI connection and a micro USB connection for power. It’s a good little screen to be honest and yes as you say, the DCDU can pop out and be dragged over to it. Works a charm. I also think, if you had two and a HDMI splitter they would work together like on the real aircraft which has two :)

​@@My320Sim great . Does 5 inch screen seems like the right size to you? Brilliant idea about the splitter . Won't need extra HDMI and it would tax the system. I wanted to do the same with PFD and ND but then one of the pilot's display would be opposite...

@@lxnnar1287 5 inch seems about right to me. I haven’t been to work for a little while though so can’t accurately say, but I feel it’s how I remember the DCDU screen being size wise. As for the PFD ND idea, I thought the same but as you say, one side would be wrong. The only work around is to have separate PFD and ND screens, meaning 4 screens with two HDMI splitters, gets complex then because I don’t know where you can get the right size screens for PFDs and NDs

​@@My320Sim yes or if we find a splitter box with extra functions like mirror flipping, left to right flipping etc. the caveat would be ... Efis modes won't work individually.

@@lxnnar1287 yes but also you would get the PDF speed and Altitude tapes reversed so speed would end up on the right and altitude on the left. Sadly I think there isn’t a way to do them like that off 1 splitter. I think they will always need to be done as a separate display, that said you will remain with separate EFIS controls that way like you mentioned

@@oskarasbilotas1300 Thank you!

@@Ashton89YT thank you for the kind words :)

(Sorry for my English but I’m Italian I’m learning inglish)

@@maurodelia4660 Thank you! I appreciate that!

@@My320Sim when I will buy a powerfull computer I will try to build the upper panel❤️

@@maurodelia4660 definitely give it a go. It’s hard work and tedious but the end result is worth it. My pc is an old 6th Gen i7 with a gtx1080. Just about copes with MSFS. Need to try and upgrade though as the pc performance degrades by the day it seems haha

@@My320Sim 😅

@@mjame71 hi, the app is one from my workplace, however I can recommend SimSmart. It’s a Windows app which can do performance calculations very similarly

@@M3T4Sploits Thank you!

@@matthewking8954 Hi, I really recommend watching some of the tutorials by Captain Bob on RUclips. That is where I started and he goes through everything from assigning LEDs as outputs to working with toggle switches etc and getting everything working with mobiflight

@@Thebeliever808 the PFD, ND, EWD and SD work. The MCDU works too as does 90% of the overhead. The DCDU is in progress and the Standby is for a later date. They all use the pop out panel from the FBW A32NX

@@landingmission2203 surprisingly not as much room as you may imagine, I have it built around a desk which is something I would like to remove and make freestanding some day. That would allow it to sit flush to the wall and take less space, but really it only takes a corner space up

@@My320Simoh really! I think I’m going to start building one

@@nigelmtb Thank you very much! :)

@@maurodelia4660 haha not too much to buy the materials, it’s basically just a small piece of wood, with some holes drilled into it, painted and labelled, then buttons and switches fitted, interfaced by Arduino and Mobiflight :) I reckon you could build one for less than £40

@@DaveJ6515 I agree to some extent, though I do have to say the eye candy to me is what keeps me on MSFS without any desire to go back to Xplane or FSX. I am amazed by what flight simulation offers now and for that I can forgive a few stutters/lower fps here and there. That said if they can ever get rid of stutters and improve frame rates it would be incredible. I do have to declare that I’m running an old pc for this sim, scraping the minimum requirements I think. I use lossless scaling and it works a charm to help overall

@@My320Sim Not your pc's fault. It's the old code running. That's why I am still using Aerowinx PSX: visuals are basic, but instruments are spot on and it is totally stutter free.

@@tuuta123 the overhead was made from scratch so material wise it wasn’t too expensive buying wood and screws, the switches are Chinese imports off eBay. The arduinos are the cheap Elegoo ones off Amazon from when they were in a sale. In all, probably less than £100. That doesn’t include how many hours it took me to cut, drill, paint and then place every letter of every word from a sticker sheet. So although it’s cheaper than your prebuilt units, it took many many tedious hours to get it done, but it’s something I can feel proud of and say I built from scratch, which is more valuable to me than a prebuilt unit - the only bit I miss is the backlighting really :)

@@My320Simmine is a really stupid question, can you make me one of this for 300€

@@OneAviation with the things like FCU/throttles and flaps etc included? Or just the things I had to get to build this? There were a number of bits I got years ago and have just built into the sim so the cost varies over a huge period of time really. For the main panel and overhead etc, it’s all wood construction built this year and probably less than £200 I would say

@@ramjeansakeel8242 Hi, sadly no wiring diagrams but I used 3 of the Elegoo Arduino Mega 2560 R3 cards, and which has something like 56pins, so I wired 56 switches together with a common negative and then wired each switch/LED positive to a pin on the card, once all 56 were done, it was the same process for the next 56 switches to the second card and so on. So far I have used about 2.5 of the arduino cards, each LED was bought with a pre wired resistor for 12v which means the current draw, even when all are illuminated, doesn’t overload the board, yet they are all bright enough still when lit. Beyond that though it was just simply soldering wires onto the positives and soldering the negatives together, then just assigning in Mobiflight :)

@@muddyfunkster77 haha thank you! Maybe one day!

@@aviator_2401 what is FD320Pro?

@@My320Sim my bad , I meant flysmart+

@@maxi962 Hi thank you, yes One Engine Taxi Departure is a very encouraged procedure across both the real airlines and in vEZY virtual airline. It isn’t just for Gatwick either, it can be applied across all airports if the conditions permit. It has large fuel and emissions savings, so although per aircraft (A320) I think it is only something like 40KG of fuel it saves on average, when you times that by the number of aircraft in the company, running multiple flights a day, it adds up to large numbers, which in turn saves a lot of money and of course CO2. That said, there are rules about using it. For example, if the airport is in Low Vis Operations or if there is standing water or heavy rain, or if the aircraft has defects which may affect a OETD, you aren’t supposed to do it, also if it is a training flight the odds are it won’t happen. It is only encouraged when conditions permit and usually an item discussed in the departure brief. The crews also have to bare in mind that the engines need 3 mins of idle power to warm up between engine start (Generator coming online) and takeoff power being applied, so the second engine start is something dynamically applied. For instance, if you depart from the south side of Gatwick’s Pier 6 for RW26L then it’s not a great idea to do a OETD because with the short taxi it’s already a high workload and you have little time to do everything on top of the engine start, but if you are at the very north of Pier 5 then single engine taxi is almost always doable. For 08R too a single engine taxi is a good idea if conditions permit as it’s a long way from any of the gates. It is something I have read in the vEZY manuals as permitted, in fact the virtual airline give you extra points if you do it. For reality I cannot digress too much but for Gatwick and my company, a single engine taxi is generally normal operations (conditions permitting) but it is also something we can apply elsewhere such as Amsterdam when they use 36L for departures There is also one engine taxi arrivals which are normal procedure too, again vEZY give extra points for doing this. In reality it again depends on conditions but is encouraged. I hope this helps, sorry it’s such a long answer :)

@@ZockerBudeVR Thank you!

@@psx747atlas haha yes mate but going to need to get a bigger home before I can create a captains side. That said, I have found myself with 2 MCDUs because the manufacturer messed up initially and sent a dodgy one, I have fixed it but they just sent a replacement without wanting the first one back. Plus I have a side panel already cut which will fit as a Captains MIP, so I’m sure the Captains side will be there one day for you! Maybe on version 2 eh ;)