Right, I know you've posted that a long time ago, but here's a few comments anyway: - 04:16 You only turn the beacon on (this is valid for all aircraft) just before engine start, and you keep it on until engine shutdown. What you needed in this case were the Nav/Position lights, which should remain on pretty much anytime the aircraft is electrically powered up. - 04:28 On recent Airbuses (32X, 330, 340, 380) the Probe & Window Heat is a fully automated function. The button which you activated only is used as an override function. By default, probe & window heat will always be on when the craft is powered up - flying without window heat will crack the cockpit windows because of the temperature difference at cruise altitude; flying with probe heat on will give block, amongst other things, your pitot tubes which basically will give you erroneous speed and attitude indications (see AF447 crash, which is a perfect example of that). Notice during the checklist is says "Auto" not "On". - 05:11 You're right, they're called FMGS's (Flight Management and Guidance Systems) - 06:24 You would normally only arm the speedbrakes when configuring for take-off (Flaps 1 or 2 + Speedbrakes ARM + Autobrakes MAX and T/O config check button) - 09:35 Parking brake pressure - What the copilot did in that case was turn the PTU, Power Transfer Unit, which transfers hydraulic power from one system to another; in order to pressurize the brakes. The PTU makes that barking noise you here, which isn't actually accurately modeled as you wouldn't hear it from the cockpit. - 15:29 With your flight plan, finding a SID is very easy: you know your first waypoint is MAY (Mayfield), and SID's (most commonly) are named after their exit point : you then know right away you have to choose the MAY2K SID. Your flight plan will usually take you from the exit waypoint of a SID to the entry waypoint of a STAR. Right, I'm not going to do the whole video ahah. But there's more to that Airbus than you would first believe ! (shit looking at the size of this post; I realise I don't necessarily have a life. Hope it was interesting anyway) Cheers
It's a whole bunch of addons. The ground crew is an add on called GSX. The air traffic control in this is another one called Radar Contact. The aircraft is an addon from Aerosoft called Airbus Extended X. The scenery on the ground at Gatwick is UK2000's Gatwick Extreme scenery.
It comes with an installer. When you buy it, you get a download link. Click it, download the installer and then run the installer. The rest is all documented in the UK2000's documentation.
Dunno if you have resolved it, but the "Accu Brake Pressure" gauge is adjacent to the landing gear lever. Prior to engine start they should be pressurized into the green bands on the gauge. If they are below you can re-pressurize by manually running the relevant hydraulic pump (G/Y or B as applicable for A320 family) and checking satisfactory pressure level by selecting the HYD "system display". that should get you your manually achieved "check".. great review by the way and thanks for leaving your comfort zone to review the dark side that is Airbus :-P
someone else answered point 1. POint 2- Left and RIght click move you between Selected and Managed. You need to read the manual on how that works as it's kind of key to mastering the Airbus, and very different to Boeings etc. 3. Same as 2. I would suggest you run through the tutorial flight included with this aircraft - you'll have it all down within an hour.
This is my first Airbus in years. Last one I flew was about 8 or so years ago - the PSS one I think. Incidentally those guys are back and working on a new one under the name of Black Box Simulations.
Im very sorry but I just don't have enough spare time to deal with individual support requests - that's not really the focus of what I do either to be honest. I would strongly recommend you join Aerosoft's forums and ask your question there - they will get you up and running in no time.
When I spoke with Robert Randazzo a while back he actually wouldn't comment on PMDG building an airbus. That's interesting because he was quite open about saying yes or no to other aircraft, but the airbus was "no comment".
accu brake pressure is the small indication over of the FMGS2 Displays the brake accumulator pressure. you must test the pressure of this staff in case of fire and mullfaction just put Electrical Pump just below ENG2 fire switch in the overhead - Turn it on check the pressure indicates below and then turn in off again. Nice video!
Not sure if anyone told you but on the checklist when they ask for brake accumulator pressure you have to turn on the electric hycraulic pump. It's called the yellow system I think and it is on the far right side of the hydraulic panel
I hear a lot of people talking about that one. Personally I don't care too much. I don't tend to look at the wings when I'm flying, and if I do then I have EZDOC running that can simulate the sorts of camera resonance that make it appear the wings are flexing (hold a pencil between thumb and forefinger and wiggle it up and down - Flex ;) )
You don't. Radar contact doesn't support them - you would need to set up the flight with a SID in the Radar contact setup window, and then request a full instrument approach closer to the airport.
Ground services were provided by GSX. The key in that package is Ctrl f12. ATC was provided by Radar Contact. It puts a menu top left of the screen and I was choosing options from that menu.
As a frequent flyer on this type of aircraft the local airlines in my country use I was always wondering about that familiar sound at 10:00, now I can finally rest in peace!
I'd been thinking of purchasing this add-on for quite a while now, and had a look on RUclips for reviews and info on what to do etc and I must say this answered my call. Definitely purchasing now. A great in depth tutorial of what you were doing and what was happening. Is there any place i can have a look at how to set up a flight plan etc? But thanks froogle for this video!
Best thing to do is to choose the cold and dark configuration in the Aircraft State menu on the right MCDU. After you have obtained power by switching on your batteries or your external power you can press APU master, then the starter and when it reads AVAIL press APU bleed. Now go back to your MCDU and select checklist again, it should work, basically Froogle explains it in the video.
Umm I think this video and the second part clearly show that yes, you can make a full procedural flight from A to B. I understand you are a big fan of FSL and that's great. This is a good alternative until FSL eventually (maybe) release.
The only thing I don't like about the Airbus is it's easy to disengage a AP feature when setting a new heading/speed ect. They just show as light and dark grey which is tricky to see sometimes .
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I don't know if anyone told you, but you don't have to arm the autopilot with the button. If you advance the throttle to FLEX or TOGA detent the autothrottle will arm itself.
Thanks. A few others have pointed that out as well. This was a "first impressions" video so some things are somewhat naturally odd or wrong or ill informed.
I wouldn't say it's "stupid". Like many add-ons soon after launch it has some issues but so far Aerosoft have been very responsive at getting patches out. FSL "sounds" promising, but like a great many people I've yet to see anything at all concrete.
Hi Froogle. My buddy told me about your channel, and I must say, he was spot on. Very cool stuff. How you link your computers to get some of the apps off your main FSX running PC is brilliant. I have never seen two computers hooked up thus. Anyways, I am onboard and a new sub.
I'm sorry but If I answer that question a tenth time I run the risk of filling the comment stream with the same words or phrase over and over which would rapidly get very boring for those people that pay attention. Please look through the comments and see if you can spot one of the other 9 times I have been asked and answered that very question on this video.
Thanks for clearing that up. As I said in the video, I'm not intimately familiar with the Airbus and this was a first impressions set of videos, so things are likely to be wrong. I do appreciate feedback when I get stuff wrong, but as I just said to someone else I also *REALLY* want to build a channel that is mature, warm and friendly for all involved. RUclips being what it is, there's a lot of aggression in comments posted, and I wanted to be sure whether or not you were not going that way.
Make sure you have correctly set the block weight and ZFW from the fuel planner (or Top Cat if you use that). The aerosoft forum has a couple of threads on this.
I once had the honor of sitting in a cockpit from Hamburg to Paris right after takeoff all the way to landing and taxing to the gate, it was amazing! In the cockpit, the towers from diffrent airports gave a direction we should follow (Turn heading 230 degrees etc.). How come it isn't like that in your video, and when i've played with aerosoft, it automaticly follows a line like a GPS. Am I doing something wrong or?
I like this addon more so than any PMDG product I've ever tried. Sure, it's not as involved and as detailed as PMDG, but instead of spending time trying to model every detail, the Aerosoft team created an immersive environment that has a good balance of realism and a few crutches so you don't spend every three seconds ALT + TAB'ing to the manual to see what a button does.
It could be any of a number of things. I would strongly recommend you watch the tutorial series I did on the Airbus - part 1 of that series covers flight planning and how to set up the route correctly.
You would need to look into tweaking FSX itself. Remember that this is a very old sim designed for much different hardware than we have today - where the world went multi-core, FSX is focussed on single core performance. Google Kostas Tweaking Guide or Bojote.
Common Froogle, why did you stop showing programming the FMC at that point! Awwwman! I know it is not an FMC, but , I am a Boeing man. Please make another tutorial more in depth on programing the FMC. Thanks Froogle for your AWSOME tutorials! Cheers!
Great video. It looks like you study a lot to fly this plane. I´m learning the manuals. It takes time to fly the 737 correctly. I will be watching your videos. They look awesome. Congratulations from Argentina.
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Right, I know you've posted that a long time ago, but here's a few comments anyway:
- 04:16 You only turn the beacon on (this is valid for all aircraft) just before engine start, and you keep it on until engine shutdown. What you needed in this case were the Nav/Position lights, which should remain on pretty much anytime the aircraft is electrically powered up.
- 04:28 On recent Airbuses (32X, 330, 340, 380) the Probe & Window Heat is a fully automated function. The button which you activated only is used as an override function. By default, probe & window heat will always be on when the craft is powered up - flying without window heat will crack the cockpit windows because of the temperature difference at cruise altitude; flying with probe heat on will give block, amongst other things, your pitot tubes which basically will give you erroneous speed and attitude indications (see AF447 crash, which is a perfect example of that). Notice during the checklist is says "Auto" not "On".
- 05:11 You're right, they're called FMGS's (Flight Management and Guidance Systems)
- 06:24 You would normally only arm the speedbrakes when configuring for take-off (Flaps 1 or 2 + Speedbrakes ARM + Autobrakes MAX and T/O config check button)
- 09:35 Parking brake pressure - What the copilot did in that case was turn the PTU, Power Transfer Unit, which transfers hydraulic power from one system to another; in order to pressurize the brakes. The PTU makes that barking noise you here, which isn't actually accurately modeled as you wouldn't hear it from the cockpit.
- 15:29 With your flight plan, finding a SID is very easy: you know your first waypoint is MAY (Mayfield), and SID's (most commonly) are named after their exit point : you then know right away you have to choose the MAY2K SID. Your flight plan will usually take you from the exit waypoint of a SID to the entry waypoint of a STAR.
Right, I'm not going to do the whole video ahah. But there's more to that Airbus than you would first believe !
(shit looking at the size of this post; I realise I don't necessarily have a life. Hope it was interesting anyway)
Cheers
Right MFCDU - there is a menu option there to set the startup state. THis is also covered in the intro document that comes with the aircraft.
It's a whole bunch of addons. The ground crew is an add on called GSX. The air traffic control in this is another one called Radar Contact. The aircraft is an addon from Aerosoft called Airbus Extended X. The scenery on the ground at Gatwick is UK2000's Gatwick Extreme scenery.
The scenery is UK2000 Heathrow. I checked and Google said they'd promise to help you find it.
It comes with an installer. When you buy it, you get a download link. Click it, download the installer and then run the installer. The rest is all documented in the UK2000's documentation.
Dunno if you have resolved it, but the "Accu Brake Pressure" gauge is adjacent to the landing gear lever. Prior to engine start they should be pressurized into the green bands on the gauge. If they are below you can re-pressurize by manually running the relevant hydraulic pump (G/Y or B as applicable for A320 family) and checking satisfactory pressure level by selecting the HYD "system display". that should get you your manually achieved "check".. great review by the way and thanks for leaving your comfort zone to review the dark side that is Airbus :-P
someone else answered point 1. POint 2- Left and RIght click move you between Selected and Managed. You need to read the manual on how that works as it's kind of key to mastering the Airbus, and very different to Boeings etc. 3. Same as 2. I would suggest you run through the tutorial flight included with this aircraft - you'll have it all down within an hour.
Yes you can set up fixes in the FMC. A few people have asked for videos on this stuff and it's on th elist to be done.
This is the Aerosoft Airbus Extended add on for FSX, not default.
There is a low/high option in the sound options in the right fms - you could try that. Failing that you'll have to mess with your FSX sound settings.
Most complex scenery incurs a performance hit, but the UK2000 stuff isn't as severe as Aerosoft Amsterdam.
It's a good add -on. It's ultimately a captain sim more than a systems sim, but that's just fine.
This is my first Airbus in years. Last one I flew was about 8 or so years ago - the PSS one I think. Incidentally those guys are back and working on a new one under the name of Black Box Simulations.
Im very sorry but I just don't have enough spare time to deal with individual support requests - that's not really the focus of what I do either to be honest. I would strongly recommend you join Aerosoft's forums and ask your question there - they will get you up and running in no time.
Thanks. I think some others pointed that out as well.
braaaah, I so need part 2! Can't wait. Keep up the good work Froogle. You're the man!
It's an ATC add-on for FSX called Radar Contact.
I have not tried the Wilco one but I hear the Aerosoft one is a lot better.
Never had a problem with GSX with this, only with the Dash 8
When I spoke with Robert Randazzo a while back he actually wouldn't comment on PMDG building an airbus. That's interesting because he was quite open about saying yes or no to other aircraft, but the airbus was "no comment".
accu brake pressure is the small indication over of the FMGS2 Displays the brake accumulator pressure. you must test the pressure of this staff in case of fire and mullfaction just put Electrical Pump just below ENG2 fire switch in the overhead - Turn it on check the pressure indicates below and then turn in off again. Nice video!
Not sure if anyone told you but on the checklist when they ask for brake accumulator pressure you have to turn on the electric hycraulic pump. It's called the yellow system I think and it is on the far right side of the hydraulic panel
I hear a lot of people talking about that one. Personally I don't care too much. I don't tend to look at the wings when I'm flying, and if I do then I have EZDOC running that can simulate the sorts of camera resonance that make it appear the wings are flexing (hold a pencil between thumb and forefinger and wiggle it up and down - Flex ;) )
Thanks Peter. I might try one and see how it goes.
Worth a thought sure.
I use Radar Contact. I installed it by running the provided installer.
You replied to a comment about EZDOK asking about SIDs and STARs. EZDOK is a camera addon. Yes this aircraft's nav data does include SIDs and STARs
No not just you - lots of people feel that way and I used to as well.
for accumulator pressure, you need to check if its in the green band, if its not turn on the electrical pump and you will see it rise than off.
Awesome video. Learned a thing or two. Looking forward to part 2.
At 2:30 , If I had watched this before I had gotten into flight simulators, I would have laughed so hard right then.
this is the best A320 addon that I have ever used. Quite happy with it.
Aerosoft's Airbus X Extended is a standalone product. I'm not a big fan of Airbuses, but I'd probably give this an 8. Thanks for the sub.
Thanks for the kind words. Yes GSX is from FSDreamTeam
I don't know how Radar Contact interacts with World of AI, but for normal AI aircraft it does take control of them yes.
You don't. Radar contact doesn't support them - you would need to set up the flight with a SID in the Radar contact setup window, and then request a full instrument approach closer to the airport.
Ground services were provided by GSX. The key in that package is Ctrl f12. ATC was provided by Radar Contact. It puts a menu top left of the screen and I was choosing options from that menu.
Thanks sir - glad you enjoyed it.
As a frequent flyer on this type of aircraft the local airlines in my country use I was always wondering about that familiar sound at 10:00, now I can finally rest in peace!
No it will take a lot more than 3. Sounds like you need to contact Aerosoft support.
Very smooth now.
I dont know why, But I always enjoy your videos.
just keep making them
I'd been thinking of purchasing this add-on for quite a while now, and had a look on RUclips for reviews and info on what to do etc and I must say this answered my call. Definitely purchasing now. A great in depth tutorial of what you were doing and what was happening. Is there any place i can have a look at how to set up a flight plan etc? But thanks froogle for this video!
planning for what? Route planning - I use FSBuild. Engine de-rate? Topcat. But that's all about to change thanks to a new app coming soon called PFPX
Great stuff Pete. Can't wait for part 2 and see how the landing goes!
Absolutely!!!!! Been working on some iRacing stuff for you guys ;)
Best thing to do is to choose the cold and dark configuration in the Aircraft State menu on the right MCDU. After you have obtained power by switching on your batteries or your external power you can press APU master, then the starter and when it reads AVAIL press APU bleed. Now go back to your MCDU and select checklist again, it should work, basically Froogle explains it in the video.
Yes, by clicking on a waypoint and then entering Via/To
Umm I think this video and the second part clearly show that yes, you can make a full procedural flight from A to B. I understand you are a big fan of FSL and that's great. This is a good alternative until FSL eventually (maybe) release.
Yeah I think that's been pointed out a few times in the 6 months that this video has been up. Thanks though.
The only thing I don't like about the Airbus is it's easy to disengage a AP feature when setting a new heading/speed ect. They just show as light and dark grey which is tricky to see sometimes .
I don't know if anyone told you, but you don't have to arm the autopilot with the button. If you advance the throttle to FLEX or TOGA detent the autothrottle will arm itself.
Yes - you can enable autorudder
Press the TO Config button on the center console..
umm ok. Thanks. Little aggressive in getting your point across, but thanks all the same.
He;'s improving each and every day. I think we hit $15.5k in total so it was a great job all round.
Thanks. A few others have pointed that out as well. This was a "first impressions" video so some things are somewhat naturally odd or wrong or ill informed.
At 5:09, those are MCDUs (Multifunction Control Display Units). haven't finished the video, but great work so far. Thanks!
I wouldn't say it's "stupid". Like many add-ons soon after launch it has some issues but so far Aerosoft have been very responsive at getting patches out. FSL "sounds" promising, but like a great many people I've yet to see anything at all concrete.
Very informative video. Thank you Froogle, keep up the good work!!
Actually no, this video was using Radar Contact i think.
You need to reach out to Aerosoft on their forums for support with their aircraft. Sorry, can't help./
Accu brake pressure is accumulator brake pressure indicated right next to the landing gear
The left FMC doesn't give you door control, only the right one.
Just went and bought the airbus now time to learn it!
I never use default ATC. This is Radar Contact.
I love your videos! :) Especially how you follow each step, use Radar Contact and check-list etc.
Hi Froogle. My buddy told me about your channel, and I must say, he was spot on. Very cool stuff. How you link your computers to get some of the apps off your main FSX running PC is brilliant. I have never seen two computers hooked up thus. Anyways, I am onboard and a new sub.
I'm sorry but If I answer that question a tenth time I run the risk of filling the comment stream with the same words or phrase over and over which would rapidly get very boring for those people that pay attention. Please look through the comments and see if you can spot one of the other 9 times I have been asked and answered that very question on this video.
Yes it does have it's own pushback. I choose not to use it as I don't think it's very realistic.
Thanks for clearing that up. As I said in the video, I'm not intimately familiar with the Airbus and this was a first impressions set of videos, so things are likely to be wrong. I do appreciate feedback when I get stuff wrong, but as I just said to someone else I also *REALLY* want to build a channel that is mature, warm and friendly for all involved. RUclips being what it is, there's a lot of aggression in comments posted, and I wanted to be sure whether or not you were not going that way.
I'm so glad I found your channel :)
Great videos.... THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!
No, it's pretty good with frame rates.
Thanks Guss
As always. Great vid. Nice and easy to follow. thx.
Make sure you have correctly set the block weight and ZFW from the fuel planner (or Top Cat if you use that). The aerosoft forum has a couple of threads on this.
I use Navigraph.
Thank you sir. Will do.
I once had the honor of sitting in a cockpit from Hamburg to Paris right after takeoff all the way to landing and taxing to the gate, it was amazing!
In the cockpit, the towers from diffrent airports gave a direction we should follow (Turn heading 230 degrees etc.). How come it isn't like that in your video, and when i've played with aerosoft, it automaticly follows a line like a GPS. Am I doing something wrong or?
I like this addon more so than any PMDG product I've ever tried. Sure, it's not as involved and as detailed as PMDG, but instead of spending time trying to model every detail, the Aerosoft team created an immersive environment that has a good balance of realism and a few crutches so you don't spend every three seconds ALT + TAB'ing to the manual to see what a button does.
Specs are in the channel description.
The cameras are controlled with an add on called EZDok.
Don't worry. Vatsim is coming. There's no way I'll hit Vatsim with a plane I'm not 200% comfie with though.
Another very professional presentationz
It could be any of a number of things. I would strongly recommend you watch the tutorial series I did on the Airbus - part 1 of that series covers flight planning and how to set up the route correctly.
Thanks.
Yes I do a lot of flying in the 737 NGX.
Have heard of a number of people having that problem. Check out Aerosoft's forums to see if there is a solution.
Please do more videos with the DC9 from Flight1, that thing is awesome.
Love the video! By the way, what ATC are you using? Is it available for FS9?
Awesome! Thanks for the response. I'll have a look at the software right now.
It came with the aircraft
You need a mouse with a wheel on it, hover over the knob (not the display) and the wheel should raise/lower the alt. hope this helps.
You would need to look into tweaking FSX itself. Remember that this is a very old sim designed for much different hardware than we have today - where the world went multi-core, FSX is focussed on single core performance. Google Kostas Tweaking Guide or Bojote.
right seat mcdu has a line select key labled "aircraft state"...select "cold and dark" then save flight and restart with that flight selected
Common Froogle, why did you stop showing programming the FMC at that point! Awwwman! I know it is not an FMC, but , I am a Boeing man. Please make another tutorial more in depth on programing the FMC. Thanks Froogle for your AWSOME tutorials! Cheers!
:) There's a couple of hundred gig of footage and narration sitting in my PC waiting to be edited into part 2. Come on over and edit it for me.
Great video. It looks like you study a lot to fly this plane. I´m learning the manuals. It takes time to fly the 737 correctly. I will be watching your videos. They look awesome. Congratulations from Argentina.
Oh there's a manual?? Yes i should read that - I literally guessed everything in this video.
Hey man awesome video. I think if you want to load route you can use the CO Route thing based on my knowledge of pmdg 777. Give that a try