REAL AIRBUS PILOT | Part 5 - A320 Autopilot Tutorial | Microsoft Flight Simulator
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Part 5: Autopilot and MCDU
In this tutorial series, we cover all the basic steps required to fly the default Airbus A320 from A to B in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Whilst the series is aimed at beginners and people new to the A320, it still aims to follow real-world Airbus procedures where possible.
In Part 5, we discuss some of the modes available to us in the MCDU as well as demonstrating the various autopilot modes available.
Please note this video and all its contents / materials, is for entertainment / simulation purposes only.
PC Specs
ASUS B150M-A
Intel Core i7 6700K 4GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
32GB DDR4 2133MHz
Hardware
Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog
Saitek Pro Flight rudder pedals
HP Reverb WMR headset
TrackIR5
Earthquake Shell Shoxx transducer
Enjoy the flight! 
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This is awesome and the best airbus tutorials. I have watched all the previous 4 episodes, looking forward to the next, and also to flying the Airbus from dark and cold start. You’ve gained a new follower.
Thank you very much! Really happy to hear your enjoying the series. I plan on updating it at some point, but it’s always a question of actually finding the time to do so haha (perhaps I’ll wait until the Fenix A320 releases).
Thank you very much for becoming a subscriber - welcome aboard! : )
All the best!
Love all your videos man I've learned so much from you, thanks for the content
Thanks very much! That’s great to hear. Glad you’re enjoying the content! : )
Fantastic series. I've been messing around in GA for a while but found the big guys a bit overwhelming. This is a perfect first step. Very much appreciated.
I'm an ex B767 simmer and as there isn't yet an equivalent model in fs20 ( xbox s ), I'm transitioning to the A320. Your series is an excellent route for me to learn the differences and I cannot recommend you enough! Thanks for your work on this,
Thanks very much for the kind words Stephen! Welcome to the Airbus haha!
It's always really rewarding to know that someone is getting value out of this series, so I am really glad you've been finding it useful.
I used to very much enjoy the Level D 767 back in the day, but it's been an age since I've flown a 767 in the sim now. I should really get back into it, it's a fun aircraft!
Happy flying and all the best! : )
Thank you very much for these tutorials, it's great they are done by an actual Airbus pilot. I'm currently working on my Instrument Rating and hope to fly one of these birds some day. Great videos, very amazing how far sims have come.
My pleasure, 808! I’m glad you enjoyed the vids.
Best of luck with the rest of the IR etc and hopefully see you in the sky one of these days! : )
Amazing job! Thank you. I know you'll be getting many subscribers very soon. Keep it up!!
Thanks very much Axel, very kind of you to say! : )
Thank you for the excellent RUclips lessons on the Airbus! They really gave me a lot of great tips, as I was making a lot of mistakes before. Thanks for helping me improve! 🙏✈
Nice been looking forward to this one! As always, thanks for the video!
Great, hope it’s of use! You’re most welcome once again : )
so helpful as always i always struggle with this... thank you!
Really great series - thanks for creating
My pleasure, glad you're getting something out of it. Thanks very much Martyn! : )
I watched the entire Autopilot tutorial. I have really enjoyed your tutorials up until now. The problem I am having with your description of how to use the autopilot has more to do with my setup versus yours. I am using a PC with the MSFS2020, and with Honeycomb Throttle quadrant and yoke. When you say in the video to either pull out or push in the knobs depending on if you want to control with the AP, or let the plane control, is that my mouse doesn’t allow me to pull out the knobs (unless I am doing it wrong. When you hover over the knob, it gives you 3 options: 1) turn the wheel to change the value; 2) right click mouse to push button in; but for 3) it just shows pulling knob out, but with no instructions on how to do this with mouse. When I try to hold the knob and slide down, it instead changes the value. I also have a hand showing on the screen and not an arrow as you do. Do you have any thoughts on what I need to do? The Throttle quadrant only allows me to push the autopilot buttons, they don’t go in and out. Thanks for your assistance!
Rick S.
Hi Rick,
I'm afraid, I couldn't say for sure what the problem might be: It sounds as though you're perhaps using the "Lock" setting for your cockpit interactions, whereas I am using the "Legacy" setting (this can be adjusted via the in-sim settings menu), this would probably account for the difference. For me, push / pull is dependent on the location of the click - left-clicking the top of the knob, will give a push command and left-clicking the bottom will give a pull command.
I hope that helps a little? Cheers and all the best! : )
This was really helpful, as you explain things very clearly. Thanks very much!
Thanks very much Rutch, glad you found it if use!
I think more than any other videos I’ve made, it’s most satisfying to hear people have enjoyed the “educational” series. Nice to think it was of some help in getting you started with “the bus”. If you have any questions, feel free to ask : )
Cheers and all the best!
@@IntotheBlueSimulations thank you. I’ll certainly take you up on that offer!
Any time man. I see you’ve joined the Discord.
If it’s a quick question, better to ask on here, you’ll probably get a reply sooner. If it’s something more in depth, Discord is good also.
All the best! : )
@@IntotheBlueSimulations I have indeed. And yes of course! Sounds great thank you
Keep 'm coming !
Will do! 3 more parts in this series still to come : )
Just started testing out the A320 and these tutorials are great! Cleared up quite a few "Huh, how does this work" and "Why is the plane doing this" or "Why won't the plane do what I want it to" kinda confusions. I'm not at all used to Airbus fly-by-wire stuff and primarily I fly GA's and smaller turboprops, so A320 is a whole new terrain to explore.
Also I see video 6 and 7 is marked as private (still in making?). Just finished this one and see it was uploaded yesterday so figure the descent and landing phases are coming up next?
Thanks for the videos! Great work!
Great, I’m glad they’re proving of use! : )
Unfortunately the A320 is still a bit buggy currently, so it occasionally doesn’t do things as it should etc. Makes it a bit tricky, as you might think you’re doing something wrong when you aren’t. Overall though, there’s enough there to start getting to grips with the Airbus. If you have any questions crop up, feel free to ask!
Yeah exactly. Vids 6,7 and 8 have been uploaded but not released yet. I sometimes do that so that it’s a bit easier to manage the channel around work. They will cover the descent, approach + landing, and taxi-in + shutdown.
Good luck with mastering the bus! The good thing about the Airbus is, once you can fly one, you can pretty much fly them all.
Thank you so much from Mainz, Germany!!!
My pleasure, Elmar! I’m really glad you found the video useful. Cheers and all the best : )
@@IntotheBlueSimulations I do - an eye opener!
Hello, I'm quite confused on how to use the qnh, could you tell me some things to do while having fun with aviation?
Hi Tr3shy,
It’s hard to cover the whole topic in a single RUclips post but, the QNH is is a pressure reference (essentially telling the aircraft what the outside air pressure is). You can find the correct QNH value, by tuning the ATIS in the sim, or using the sim’s METAR function. Below the transition altitude, you need to set the current QNH value (eg, 1008hpa) and above the transition altitude, you set the QNH to “standard” (1013hpa). That’s the basics but, obviously you can find a lot more info by reading around online etc : )
Im afraid I don’t quite understand the second part of your question?
I hope that helps a little. All the best!
Please explain Pwr Lever positions. After either TOGA or Clmb setting do the levers remain in Clmb for the remainder of the flight, or are they reduced to idle for descent and approach? Thanks for your excellent and easy to follow videos for A320 new hires!
Hi jress,
I’m really glad you’ve been finding the series of use and welcome to the Airbus! ; )
Nice and straightforward on that one. The thrust levers stay in the climb detent until landing (when you hear the aircraft calling out “retard, retard”, it’s reminding you to close the thrust levers). In the flare, you can bring the thrust levers back to the idle detent and then on touchdown activate reverse thrust.
You can really think of the thrust levers almost as “thrust limiters”; TOGA will give you maximum power, FLEX / MCT will give you maximum continuous power. CLB will allow the engines to operate anywhere between climb power and idle (with the auto-thrust engaged). If you want to operate the thrust manually, you can take the auto-thrust out and operate the thrust levers between the idle and CLB detents.
I hope that helps! Happy flying : )
what are the CSTR VOR D WPT NDB and ARPT autopilot buttons used for?
When the autopilot is put into managed setting. It shows 3 dashes and 1 dot. When put into a morse code translator it shows as " Ø ". that has a meaning of null.
So when put into managed setting does it mean null or I'm just an idiot.....???
Hi, good video but I have a problem. After turning on the autopilot, the plane starts going in a completely different direction than the road. Can you help me?
Thanks, I tried after writing you and learned that a "mid click" is done via the mouse wheel, which is equivalent to pulling the button. Unfortunately it also activates the "head turning" feature using the mouse, so I have to click again to get out of that before continuing on to program the Autopilot. I'm going to try your suggestion! Thanks! What name should I call you? And can I buy you a coffee using Paypal?
Rick (Mach2)
Probably a dumb question BUT, how do you pull out the knobs in the autopilot with the mouse? I set the vert speed to descend and adjust the numbers to a neg value but the plane keeps climbing. What am I missing here?
Hi Kelly,
You “pull”, by clicking on the lower section of the rotary and “push”, by clicking on the upper section of the rotary (which in the case of the VS selection, should level the aircraft off). If you select a negative VS value and pull, the aircraft should descend (with the autopilot engaged); if in your case, the aircraft is climbing, that sounds like a bug / programming error (of which, the default A320 had / has quite a few).
I hope that clarifies things a little. All the best! : )
Awesome video. Could you do one on how you would do a visual approach with A320?
Thanks very much Sebastian! : )
It’s a great idea and perhaps I will do such a video at a later date. With the default A320 in its current state, I feel there wouldn’t be all that much I could usefully offer in a video though. The systems and the handling characteristics would need some work before I could effectively demonstrate one.
Often, there isn’t a huge amount of difference between flying a visual approach and instrument approach actually. Usually you’ll be radar vectored or flying an instrument approach until you’re quite close to the runway anyway. For both, profile management is very important, and we’ll be covering that (as best we can in the default 320) in the next lesson : )
Thanks for your suggestion once again! As I say, I will consider it for a future vid, when either the default A320 or the FBW mod have matured a bit. I’ve added it to my list of future topics! : )
@@IntotheBlueSimulations Ah OK fair enough. I've tried to manually land A320 not using instruments and am struggling with it, especially the last portion where I can't seem to be able to control the descent rate using the elevator whilst autothrottle is on. I am using the Flybywire mod for A320. Let's hope we get a better Airbus at some point.
Yes, unfortunately the default 320 behaves very strangely at low speed / alt currently. I have all the same problems. I do have a couple of 320 landing challenges up on the channel, they might help you figure things out a bit. Currently I find the best remedies are flying a very shallow approach (so that the aircraft is already almost trimmed in the flare attitude) and take a bit of extra speed above Vapp (that helps with the wing drop issue). Unfortunately it’s almost impossible to fly like the real thing on a fully manual approach at the moment. As you say, hopefully things will be improved moving forward.
if i go into managed speed it just drops to 220 all the time despite the flight computer saying managed should be 285.
When im flying and turn on ap then it sometimes turns off immediately or it does not do anything i asked it to
My issue is that the plane flies along the flight path on autopilot then decides not to even though the autopilot stayed engaged.
Been doing everything like you said so far but I just got high altitude altimeter wrongly configurated… What happened
Hello Bruno,
What do you mean by “high altitude altimeter” and “wrongly configured”? Are you referring to switching from QNH to STD? “Pulling” the altimeter selection, sets STD (to be used in the cruise / above the transition altitude) and “pushing” will allow you to set the QNH (below transition level). You can also use the “B” key in the sim. If you’re on Xbox, the controls may be somewhat different but, I’m not familiar with them I’m afraid.
I hope that helps a little? All the best : )
Does the exped button work? If so, what does it do?
Hello Bryan,
EXPED is short for “Expedite”. The button can be used to have the aircraft climb / descend at the best achievable vertical gradient. In a climb, once EXPED is pressed, the jet will target a slow speed (green dot) with climb thrust and in a descent, high speed (340kts) at idle thrust. It varies from pilot to pilot and airline to airline, but it’s not a button that gets used very much (if at all) in the real world. As to whether or not it works on the default MSFS A320, I’m afraid I have no idea - I’ve never tried it haha.
I hope that helps? All the best! : )
How do you zoom in on the buttons on Xbox? Any idea?
Hello Matt,
I’m afraid I’m not sure on that one, not owning an Xbox myself. I have tried using the sim with an Xbox controller though and from memory, there are no zoom buttons assigned by default; I think you would have to go into the controls menu and assign some commands yourself.
I hope that helps a little. All the best : )
Hold LB and you can move the camera in the cockpit
Great video once again! Would love to put a name to the content creator ;). Only if you're comfortable:))
Haha, I'd love to get better acquainted for sure, but work and social media often seem to end up not mixing well. I'm trying to keep real life and RUclips as separate as possible, at least for the time being. Really sorry bud.
On a positive note, I've found some free time, so about to catch up a little on your vids! : )
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