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Great vid mate. Where abouts in the UK are you based? I’m just getting used to flying the A320 in MSFS and boy it’s a steep learning curve. You get to fly the real deal, good on you! 👍
THXX soo much for the info!! i also like to know how do pilots stay rly on the center line when taxiing toward the runway? like i swear there has to be a camera to see where there going
Student pilot here, the planes I fly are so much smaller (at least for now 🤞) , but the same concept applies. As long as you keep the yellow taxi line relatively within the center of the cockpit while you taxi, you will follow the line pretty accurately. The a320 as far as I know doesn’t have a taxi camera. But the longer and bigger aircraft’s such as the a340 and a380 have taxi cameras (behind the nose gear, the tail camera, and sometimes a main gear camera). That is because in order for the longer aircraft’s body to stay on the yellow line the pilots have to purposely overshoot the turn, similar to how a semi truck driver has to overshoot a turn so the long trailer behind him can clear the curb. Hope this helps.
FMGC in A320 is actually quite crap. The profile is basically every single time below idle profile and deceleration to approach happens way too early, the calculation is more conservative than Donald Trump. In my opinion, it's much easier to go with open descent and selected speed from top of descent to GS capture. Don't know why they can't get it corrected even in 320neo family, because same time A330/340 FMGS is doing much better. And even in the rare case where the FMGC profile calculation would actually make some sense, you need to take into account some shortcut and again open descent is the easiest option. When you know the approximate wind, track miles (or even slant distance from DME), speed, weight and altitude, you don't need FMGC for anything else except some children of the magenta line -stuff (even the line in Airbus is not even magenta but green)...
