MSFS A320 TYPE RATING - RNP/RNAV

At The Autopilots, our project is to give you more of an idea of how we operate the Airbus A320 in a real life scenario. We are diving into complex subjects and explaining them to you using theoretical explanations and practical demonstrations on Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Today's lesson is on Required Navigation Performance, or RNP. RNP is becoming increasingly popular in aviation, so it's crucial we get to know it, and know it well. In the future, RNP AR approaches will allow us to fly safer, quieter, and more efficient approaches.
Enjoy the video, we hope you learn something, and let us know what you think!

[@fatima.bouchekoua]

Best vids ever

[@Julien-nx5mz]

Banger

[@sukhoy35]

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[@mio2540]

Can you make a video for LDA approaches?

[@Valentin_MeL]

i think good back up in case 2 AP fail will be raw data ILS approach. But i am not sure if this kind of airports have ils capability. Good video by the way.

[@AutoPilotEducation]

Absolutely, if the airport has an ILS then this would be the preferred approach anyway. But a fair few airports which have RNP AR do not have an ILS (for example: Funchal airport). Thanks for your comment!

[@Valentin_MeL]

@@AutoPilotEducation Well in this case Vor or Ndb beacons should help, but in mountain area it can be really hard to follow
radials. But it's better then nothing and with some visability to the ground it can work.
I remember my first time i tried A320 in MSFS 2020 during snow conditions. Back then i didn't know how to use autopilot properly including lls, Rnav, Vor and NDB approaches, i just didn't know what the hell is this mean. I tried to land at London airport
and the only things i had back then is the visability to the ground about 500 - 1000 ft or so and the map on mfd. That was really sweaty flight just like from that sweaty pilot mem.
i founded an airport a couple of times but at the wrong angle, cause back then i didn't know what the final approach course means. So after a few go arounds. i managed to see runway at "exceptable angle", after hard dive and about 20 degrease turn i managed to land, but that was a hard landing, cause i didn't know how to make butter landing back then.
Actually i still don't know how to make them every time on each plane i fly in msfs. It's only easy to make them on B747-8 for some reason.

[@xNYCMarc]

@@Valentin_MeL NDB and VOR are being phased out. In the US, new pilots aren't even taught NDB anymore. By 2030 RNAV/RNP and ILS will be the only approaches available.

[@Valentin_MeL]

@@xNYCMarc I just flown in A320neo to antactic from new zeland in MSFS 2020. And damn i would be so happy to have vor or ndb over there. It so hard to spot runway among white snow when it doesn't have rnav, ils available and when gps stops to work. That was during day with no clouds. At some point, for some reason gps started to show that i been moving away from airport. And ARC and NAV mode of the map started to show me that airport in two different places. I guess it not very effective when ther is not alot of satellites around. I even asked for some headings from dispath. But even with them i coudn't find airport. And eventually I've been forsed to land in the middle of nowhere but somewhere close to airport,
Even if vor and ndb outdated, they can be a good backup in case when rnav and ils not working. And the most important when gps is fucked up,

[@xNYCMarc]

@@Valentin_MeL Well, the satellites are everywhere! Hahaha. It even works through clouds. It isn’t like television satellites that are blocked by moisture.
VOR, NDB and ILS require physical equipment on the ground, sometimes in remote locations, that need to be maintained and replaced regularly. The move to all satellite navigation is less expensive and more accurate. Small airports that don’t make any money can now have ILS-like approaches that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford.

[@slowe7390]

Are you playing with 4K?

[@AllThingsAviation]

what airbus is that? fenix or fbw?

[@AutoPilotEducation]

Fenix :)