This is what I needed! Very informative, was always struggling for where my TOD was and didn't really know how to use the TOD calculator on the EFB. So I always just "eyeballed" my descent and would always be super high when coming near my final waypoint. Thanks for this!
Your flight plan actually tells you when to start TOD. Check your OFP in the EFB. Under your flight plan and just below the Captain Signature area is the detailed part of flight plan. If you scroll down just a bit you will see TOC and below that TOD. Just to the right of that will be your TOD DTG(Distance To Go) figure when to start your descent.
Hi there. If you’re using Simbrief for your flight planning (which a lot of people do), the TOD calculation is not always accurate (even if using an up to date airframe). Simbrief doesn’t always take high altitude STAR restrictions into account. If you rely on the TOD to be accurate, you could easily bust the restriction. The best pilots always calculate the descent. 👍🏼
@@11clarkm Hi there. I use it perhaps up to 6 times per day for the past 3 or 4months. Works for me. Every time. Good enough so i don't have to calculate every TOD, every flight.
"Wellcome to Venice Commander!" This is the video i needed!! Just this afternoon, flying from CUGY to GGOV i start descent ... where i Thought it was right ... now i know exactly when and where start descent. Thank You.
Wish I'd seen this before my last 'flight' in the 32nx....I flew over HKMO...by miles. Very helpful. This is the last part of the puzzle of flying this aircraft for me. hanks
Thank you very much for the informational video. this is a huge help for piloting the speed bird correctly. You and V1 simulations are a big help real world pilots helping us simmers do things right
Verry useful the rule of thumb to calculate the top of descend distance. Also great that you can display this as a radius around the entry way point. Great tutorial, thanks !!
I used this as a refresher. The current FBW a320 does NOT use the default ATC/Descent instructions, , so I found myself at FL 330 being asked to descent to 3,000 when I'm only 30 NM from the runway!! Or, I'd start my descent too early and be at 5000 with still about 90 nm to go. Thanks again!
I knew straight away it wasn't a VNAV thing, but you probably should specify that as some people might get confused looking at the title thinking it's VNAV when it isn't. Either way, great video!
I must try this again as I could not get the jet to descend fast enough so going to give it another go. At least I got to the destination lined up ok - just too high
So, I'm guessing one should make sure that there is no ATC on while doing all of this. Because of course the ATC in the sim has a pilot descending rapidly. I'm trying to figure out what to do in ALL planes though. Not just in a commercial one. That's been challenging too. Regardless, this video did shed some light on how I can plan things. Is there a place though where one can find flight plans? As well as, what about the random trips we create within the sim? I'm guessing just do the calculator part. Thank you for the video!!!
also another thing, I was planning my descent and I set the target altitude - the altitude selector doesn't have a manage descent option and I can't push it in...
I can find the fix info in the latest FBW. I remember doing this years ago in the Aerosoft A320 for P3D but they've changed the MCDU again and I can't find it.
You have to divide your altitude by 3 and this would a TD distance to destination. Example. FL370 will become a 123 nm to destination. Then you have to divide your Ground Speed by 2 and this would a Vertical Speed of your descend to stay in profile. Example GS is a 440 knots, then VS is a -2200 😅
Thanks for the tutorial man, I'm a beginner, so please bear with me. I have managed to learn to do a F-Plan, now, I my radar doesn't show where is the TOD arrow, nor it shows me what speed at should be at a certain time/altitude. I signed up for SimBrief and Navigraph. Can you guide ? Thank you
I have a problem where i cannot do managed mode on the altitude when i am below 10000. When on vatsim i get told from 8000 to 2000 i cannot click on managed. Do you have a solution?
Hi, me again, I have newly installed the FBW experimental version and now I have seen the "fix" waypoint function, but the calculation is not correct and far more slow, then I have to use the "VS" to do manually the descent to catch?
Hi, does managed decent work in the stable version of FBW? When I click that ALT button it dosnt start a decent. I have to use verticals speed to get the 3000 decent
Are you the FBW representative to do FBW tutorials or are you do this from personal interesting? The reason I asking it, bcuz fbw made only 3 tutorials and personally I want to see the 4th tutorial which is could be covering ILS landing, taxi, parking n back to cold (corretly shot down the aircraft). Please let me know, if you don't mind,
What happens if atc gives you your decent clearance like 50 miles out and there are speed restrictions at the waypoint you need to meet how can you meet the altitude restrictions and the speed restrictions?
Thank you for this video 🙂 If you haven't done a video on it, I would love to see how you get the model matching (I don't know if it is live traffic or AI), at the beginning of the video. I commented a couple of videos back saying my Sim kept crashing. I reinstalled it (which took about 5 days), but it continued to crash. I changed FBY from Dev to Stable, and that seemed to fix the crashing.
@@JonathanPeel very nice. Wish SA could get more traffic. I joined vatsim uk for my controller training.. Had to give up due to time constraints though.
Managed picks its own vertical speed to get down to the selected alt. In the real airplane (and coming soon in the FBW airplane) there is VNAV associated with this. That means it will time your descent to hit a waypoint at a certain ALT. In open descent, you pick your vertical speed, and have to control that on the way down. Autothrottle will continue to manage your speed.
Sorry to bother you again, but hoping you can shed some light on my little issue i am having trying to implement this great feature. Following your video to the letter, i do NOT have a 'FIX' option in my MCDU?? The button is there, but no Fix text next to it, when i press the button where the fix should be nothing happens. I am using FBW Stable edition, moved up to Dev edition to use the remote MCDU feature, but found that my aircraft steering was all over the place, so moved back to Stable edition. Can you point any light at why i do not see the 'Fix' option? Huge thanks.
It's not available in the stable version as yet. By steering for the development version do you mean the nosewheel steering? You may want to setup the recently added tiller function.
@@RealSimPilot Ah, Right, thank you. Yes, my nose wheel steering is all over the damn place, steer left and initially it goes right, then abruptly sharp Left, and vica versa the opposite way, makes Taxi-ing a challenge and landing impossible. I'll look at the 'Tiller' function, where is that exactly. Huge thanks again. EDIT:....Found it on FBW Site....
Great Tutorial Real Sim, and one I am gonna learn and take with me as i Try to learn the A320. Coming from an avid user of X-Plane 11 and fairly used to flying the Zibo 737, do you know why the A320 does not have a completely managed (Auto) desent like the 737 (Also known as i think VNAV? Seems strange that Airbus did not implement this to the 320. Are all Airbus's like this? Thanks and keep up the Great Tutorials, (Now Subscribed).
@@RealSimPilot Exactly!! you can pick any waypoint in the toliss for the Fix info page so I really don't think you can blame me from assuming i was just transferring my knowledge but anyways Nice Video it's very entertaining
This is what I needed! Very informative, was always struggling for where my TOD was and didn't really know how to use the TOD calculator on the EFB. So I always just "eyeballed" my descent and would always be super high when coming near my final waypoint. Thanks for this!
This was perfect. I always struggled with my descent. After this I nailed it my first time out.
me too best tutorials there are for the a320 and general aviation
Your flight plan actually tells you when to start TOD. Check your OFP in the EFB. Under your flight plan and just below the Captain Signature area is the detailed part of flight plan. If you scroll down just a bit you will see TOC and below that TOD. Just to the right of that will be your TOD DTG(Distance To Go) figure when to start your descent.
Hi there. If you’re using Simbrief for your flight planning (which a lot of people do), the TOD calculation is not always accurate (even if using an up to date airframe). Simbrief doesn’t always take high altitude STAR restrictions into account. If you rely on the TOD to be accurate, you could easily bust the restriction. The best pilots always calculate the descent. 👍🏼
@@11clarkm Hi there. I use it perhaps up to 6 times per day for the past 3 or 4months. Works for me. Every time. Good enough so i don't have to calculate every TOD, every flight.
@@mickg0756 ignorance is bliss 😃
I've been using simbrief for a lot. I never had any problems w toc nor tod. Ur set after entering perf data that's it@@11clarkm
In my opinion, you are one of the most under-rated msfs2020 youtubers; you have a new subscriber!
"Wellcome to Venice Commander!" This is the video i needed!! Just this afternoon, flying from CUGY to GGOV i start descent ... where i Thought it was right ... now i know exactly when and where start descent. Thank You.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I’ve watched dozens of videos on this subject and I had never seen the progress button distance to waypoint.
They wat to waist your time
Wish I'd seen this before my last 'flight' in the 32nx....I flew over HKMO...by miles. Very helpful. This is the last part of the puzzle of flying this aircraft for me. hanks
Thank you very much for the informational video. this is a huge help for piloting the speed bird correctly. You and V1 simulations are a big help real world pilots helping us simmers do things right
Verry useful the rule of thumb to calculate the top of descend distance. Also great that you can display this as a radius around the entry way point. Great tutorial, thanks !!
finally someone to show me how to get VS equivalent for 3 degree descent rate. massive thank you!
An easy to do thing is to divide your flight level by 3.
You are at FL330? Start your descent at 110 nm to destination.
Correct. This was what I was expecting in the video.
I used this as a refresher. The current FBW a320 does NOT use the default ATC/Descent instructions, , so I found myself at FL 330 being asked to descent to 3,000 when I'm only 30 NM from the runway!! Or, I'd start my descent too early and be at 5000 with still about 90 nm to go. Thanks again!
Best A32NX producer from youtube nowadays. Keep up good work, and your speaking speed is perfect now! ✈️
Best produced content for the A32NX, very informative and straight to the point. Very good!
No it's the worst
You're the best. After watching all your vids. I feel much more comfortable flying on the network
Are you using navigraph? Not sure if I should buy it.
@@silly69699 Yes. It’s super helpful for Taxi, SID & STAR
It's a nice addition to have. Very helpful
Very helpful thankyou. I believe you can also calculate your VS for a -3 degree descent by multiplying your ground speed x 5.
I knew straight away it wasn't a VNAV thing, but you probably should specify that as some people might get confused looking at the title thinking it's VNAV when it isn't. Either way, great video!
I must try this again as I could not get the jet to descend fast enough so going to give it another go. At least I got to the destination lined up ok - just too high
You get a Like, a Comment, and a Subscriber! Thanks for this.
Wow...I was looking for such tutorial for the descent procedure and you came up with the perfect one...thank you very much..very useful !!
Wow ! great tips. Have a nice day.
This video was very helpful thank you
Super helpful with the fix ring information, thanks!
Howzit Bru. Thnaks for the Vid
Remember if you are late on your managed descent you can always deploy the spoiler a bit, it will increase the descent rate.
I always make myself or request a vectors to delay the final
Excelente aula, parabéns pelos vídeos, estou dominado o A320 graças aos seus ensinamentos obrigado.
Acho que ele não fala português amigo kkkkk
@@anarkcorp nem eu falo alemão.
Thanks! Great video.
real sim pilot would you make a vat sim tutorial? would love to see you live doing that
Thank you very much!
Thanks from France! Good tuto !
Very good tutorial! But i don’t see altitude and max speed markings in ”navigator”.
So, I'm guessing one should make sure that there is no ATC on while doing all of this. Because of course the ATC in the sim has a pilot descending rapidly. I'm trying to figure out what to do in ALL planes though. Not just in a commercial one. That's been challenging too. Regardless, this video did shed some light on how I can plan things. Is there a place though where one can find flight plans? As well as, what about the random trips we create within the sim? I'm guessing just do the calculator part. Thank you for the video!!!
also another thing, I was planning my descent and I set the target altitude - the altitude selector doesn't have a manage descent option and I can't push it in...
I can find the fix info in the latest FBW. I remember doing this years ago in the Aerosoft A320 for P3D but they've changed the MCDU again and I can't find it.
Newbie here. How do I manually set the angle of decent to 3 degrees? Not sure how to read it , or what instrument to use. Thank you
You have to divide your altitude by 3 and this would a TD distance to destination. Example. FL370 will become a 123 nm to destination. Then you have to divide your Ground Speed by 2 and this would a Vertical Speed of your descend to stay in profile. Example GS is a 440 knots, then VS is a -2200 😅
Very useful trick there.
Great video! I'll have to try fix ring on my next flight :)
Great vid...very helpful.
That was very interesting, thank you for explaining
Thanks for the video. Are you from SA?
Yes I am.
Great video. Thank you for the info. What’s the name of that music at the end did the video? I liked it
This is so helpful, thanks for this
i prefer to divide by 3 e.g. delta h = 27000 -> 90 nm
Thanks for the tutorial man, I'm a beginner, so please bear with me. I have managed to learn to do a F-Plan, now, I my radar doesn't show where is the TOD arrow, nor it shows me what speed at should be at a certain time/altitude. I signed up for SimBrief and Navigraph. Can you guide ? Thank you
Best video do you can’t make one for approach?
I have made one for an ils approach and one for a standard terminal arrival.
Thanks again! Can you please make a video on difference between ils and rnav approaches and also weather, qnh etc
I don't have the fix page in my a32nx... I want to plan it before takeoff... Is that possible ?
Here you can use a complete version of FMS and EICAM. Mine have lot of missing pages/functions.
Have you got some special addon?
is there a way to get the bottom of decent indicator?? the blue arrrow that moves with the VS??
how do i individually select altitude for each waypoint just wondering
VERY helpful. Thanks!
Shouldnt this be automatically calculated by the fmc? No TOD BOD symbols on the nav display?
I have a problem where i cannot do managed mode on the altitude when i am below 10000. When on vatsim i get told from 8000 to 2000 i cannot click on managed. Do you have a solution?
How do you get the flight levels to display under the different waypoints on the NAV?
When I put in my desired altitude my plane wont desent
Great video. Thanks. How did you make that magenta FL to appear on the nav computer?
Press the CSTR button on the efis panel.
When I click on “Fix info”, nothing happens. Do you have an idea why?
So, based off this to get from FL380 -> FL030 I would need start 105nm out?
Amazing! Very helpful
Hi,
me again, I have newly installed the FBW experimental version and now I have seen the "fix" waypoint function, but the calculation is not correct and far more slow, then I have to use the "VS" to do manually the descent to catch?
Very well done! How’s the VNAV coming along?
Super... so well explained
What if you dont have the Charts and dont have a point ex:ALBET what do you do?
Thank you! 💪💪💪
What are called those circles right next of the speed and heading in the flight control? Those when you press the buttons up the circles disappear
Thx great help
New here me, subed already, great video 👍
Hi which a320nx u using stable or dev?? Thanks
It's the latest development version.
Hi, does managed decent work in the stable version of FBW? When I click that ALT button it dosnt start a decent. I have to use verticals speed to get the 3000 decent
Very well explained sir. Can't wait for VNAV to be implemented in A32NX
does the Xplane offer FlyPad calculator?
Are you the FBW representative to do FBW tutorials or are you do this from personal interesting? The reason I asking it, bcuz fbw made only 3 tutorials and personally I want to see the 4th tutorial which is could be covering ILS landing, taxi, parking n back to cold (corretly shot down the aircraft). Please let me know, if you don't mind,
Cool I learned something.
is this actually how the piltos know how to descend in real life or is the TOD marker not simulated in the a32x yet?
Its how we would calculate it in planes that dont have VNAV. It is now avaliable in the A32nx. It wasn't back when this video was made.
The arrow on decent won’t select
What happens if atc gives you your decent clearance like 50 miles out and there are speed restrictions at the waypoint you need to meet how can you meet the altitude restrictions and the speed restrictions?
You don't have to wait for atc to give you descent clearance, you're allowed to request it when you are ready to descend.
Very good video, but when I want to descend I try click the same as you, but it didn’t work, there is no stick up or down, any help please!
What's the rule of the thumb for T/D? Can you set it to like a 5000 ALT etc.? Or if have restrictions it has to be set at that?
You can tell wen someone's south africa.😂😂😂 love it
Hey how do you get the little blue arrow that indicates where your going to level off? Or is that only for the Fenix a320
It is the FlybyWire A32nx
The fix page is not there
Thank you for this video 🙂
If you haven't done a video on it, I would love to see how you get the model matching (I don't know if it is live traffic or AI), at the beginning of the video.
I commented a couple of videos back saying my Sim kept crashing.
I reinstalled it (which took about 5 days), but it continued to crash.
I changed FBY from Dev to Stable, and that seemed to fix the crashing.
Glad you got it sorted. The model matching is called AIG traffic manager.
@@RealSimPilot Thank you, I will check out AIG 🙂
It's a pain to install and setup but once done it works well. For vatsim as well.
@@RealSimPilot Have never flown online, I do OR Tambo ground sometimes though 😝.
@@JonathanPeel very nice. Wish SA could get more traffic. I joined vatsim uk for my controller training.. Had to give up due to time constraints though.
i did as u said but it neved did its decent
Do you request descent from atc ?
Yes if you are using vatsim
Can the descent start automatically? I remember flying boeing on X-Plane 10 and sometimes the plane started to descent just at TOD.
The airbus does not descend automatically.
@@RealSimPilot When you pressed the "Manage desecent" didn't the aircraft changed the V/S and decended by it self?
@@theomer0002 the altitude was selected and then the descent was started by pushing the button so its not really by itself.
@@RealSimPilot Thanks!
How do I update my A32NX as I'm using an older version which doesn't have a 'Fix' operation yet. Loving the video's.
Download the FBW installer from their website.
Thanks Brandon. Sorted! You’re a star!
Thanks for the video, you could improve landing though :)
Very good and educational movies you make, can I ask what you use of add-on?
The flybywire a32nx and AIG traffic manager.
Great videos , keep up the good job, can you please clarify the difference between managed descent and open descent? Thank you in advance
Managed picks its own vertical speed to get down to the selected alt. In the real airplane (and coming soon in the FBW airplane) there is VNAV associated with this. That means it will time your descent to hit a waypoint at a certain ALT. In open descent, you pick your vertical speed, and have to control that on the way down. Autothrottle will continue to manage your speed.
@@CCitis thank you
The question is, why isn't it calculated on the MCDU automatically like it is in Boeing?
In real life it does. Currently, the A32NX does not have it yet.
It's work in progress
Sorry to bother you again, but hoping you can shed some light on my little issue i am having trying to implement this great feature. Following your video to the letter, i do NOT have a 'FIX' option in my MCDU?? The button is there, but no Fix text next to it, when i press the button where the fix should be nothing happens.
I am using FBW Stable edition, moved up to Dev edition to use the remote MCDU feature, but found that my aircraft steering was all over the place, so moved back to Stable edition.
Can you point any light at why i do not see the 'Fix' option? Huge thanks.
It's not available in the stable version as yet. By steering for the development version do you mean the nosewheel steering? You may want to setup the recently added tiller function.
@@RealSimPilot Ah, Right, thank you. Yes, my nose wheel steering is all over the damn place, steer left and initially it goes right, then abruptly sharp Left, and vica versa the opposite way, makes Taxi-ing a challenge and landing impossible. I'll look at the 'Tiller' function, where is that exactly.
Huge thanks again.
EDIT:....Found it on FBW Site....
@@richardswede you can turn it on and off with the flypad. If you're going to use it you need to bind it to an axis or buttons.
Great Tutorial Real Sim, and one I am gonna learn and take with me as i Try to learn the A320. Coming from an avid user of X-Plane 11 and fairly used to flying the Zibo 737, do you know why the A320 does not have a completely managed (Auto) desent like the 737 (Also known as i think VNAV? Seems strange that Airbus did not implement this to the 320. Are all Airbus's like this?
Thanks and keep up the Great Tutorials, (Now Subscribed).
They still working on it.
@@RealSimPilot Ah, so it is a feature in a real A320, but FBW, have not yet implemented it, or indeed Asobo in the default 320.
Many thanks man.
I cant find the fix info in the A32NX
Press fltpln then press the LSK1 key (The top waypoint on your mcdu screen)
@@RealSimPilot is that how it is on the A32NX? I have a different experience while flying the toliss
@@swagicebear1688 yes. Never flown the toliss. Off the top of my head I think you can access it by selecting any waypoint on the fltpln page.
@@RealSimPilot Exactly!! you can pick any waypoint in the toliss for the Fix info page so I really don't think you can blame me from assuming i was just transferring my knowledge but anyways Nice Video it's very entertaining
I’m actually triggered becuz i I don’t know how to add a TOC and TOD
howzit
Howzit
@@RealSimPilot gather you know SAA, hit me up if you want retro SAA livery for fbw.
K33k
Can’t believe they haven’t even implemented the TOD yet, pathetic
i prefer to divide by 3 e.g. delta h = 27000 -> 90 nm
What is the name of the tool Weather disturbance and wing vibration
The first one - easier - Thanks from Brazil.