A32nx Top of Descent marker | When to Descend in the A32nx 

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 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.

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.

This was perfect. I always struggled with my descent. After this I nailed it my first time out.

"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.

In my opinion, you are one of the most under-rated msfs2020 youtubers; you have a new subscriber!

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 !!

These are the videos that need to blow up, really helpful, 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

Best A32NX producer from youtube nowadays. Keep up good work, and your speaking speed is perfect now! ✈️

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.

finally someone to show me how to get VS equivalent for 3 degree descent rate. massive thank you!

Best produced content for the A32NX, very informative and straight to the point. Very good!

The first one - easier - Thanks from Brazil.

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!

You're the best. After watching all your vids. I feel much more comfortable flying on the network

Very helpful thankyou. I believe you can also calculate your VS for a -3 degree descent by multiplying your ground speed x 5.

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 !!

Remember if you are late on your managed descent you can always deploy the spoiler a bit, it will increase the descent rate.

Super helpful with the fix ring information, thanks!

Wow ! great tips. Have a nice day.

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.

Howzit Bru. Thnaks for the Vid

This video was very helpful thank you

Thanks from France! Good tuto !

real sim pilot would you make a vat sim tutorial? would love to see you live doing that

Precisely explained. Great content Thank you!

Thanks! Great video.

Excelente aula, parabéns pelos vídeos, estou dominado o A320 graças aos seus ensinamentos obrigado.

Great video! I'll have to try fix ring on my next flight :)

Thank you very much!

That was very interesting, thank you for explaining

Great vid...very helpful.

This is so helpful, thanks for this

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!!!

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

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...

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 good tutorial! But i don’t see altitude and max speed markings in ”navigator”.

VERY helpful. Thanks!

Very well done! How’s the VNAV coming along?

Thanks again! Can you please make a video on difference between ils and rnav approaches and also weather, qnh etc

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.

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!

Thanks for the video. Are you from SA?

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?

When I click on “Fix info”, nothing happens. Do you have an idea why?

Great video. Thank you for the info. What’s the name of that music at the end did the video? I liked it

Super... so well explained

I don't have the fix page in my a32nx... I want to plan it before takeoff... Is that possible ?

Best video do you can’t make one for approach?

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?

What is the name of the tool Weather disturbance and wing vibration

Shouldnt this be automatically calculated by the fmc? No TOD BOD symbols on the nav display?

i prefer to divide by 3 e.g. delta h = 27000 -> 90 nm

is there a way to get the bottom of decent indicator?? the blue arrrow that moves with the VS??

Very well explained sir. Can't wait for VNAV to be implemented in A32NX

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

how do i individually select altitude for each waypoint just wondering

How do you get the flight levels to display under the different waypoints on the NAV?

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

When I put in my desired altitude my plane wont desent

So, based off this to get from FL380 -> FL030 I would need start 105nm out?

Thank you! 💪💪💪

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,

Here you can use a complete version of FMS and EICAM. Mine have lot of missing pages/functions. Have you got some special addon?

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.

Great video. Thanks. How did you make that magenta FL to appear on the nav computer?

Cool I learned something.

Thx great help

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

New here me, subed already, great video 👍

What if you dont have the Charts and dont have a point ex:ALBET what do you do?

is this actually how the piltos know how to descend in real life or is the TOD marker not simulated in the a32x yet?

Hi which a320nx u using stable or dev?? Thanks

The arrow on decent won’t select

Congratulations, very well explained. Question: does the "green dot" used on the Boeing 737 exist in real life or does it only appear in the simulator?

I’m Not sure what method I need to use for my case. I’m using the default a320 so I don’t have the on board calculator, but I always like to use VSpeed for my descents. So for example if I’m at a FL of 350 and I need to reach an altitude of 6000ft what method would work for me if I want to use v speed as my way of decent? The managed decent mode causes the a320 to decent at a rate of 4500 ft a min which is insane. Also I want to follow the correct speed limits for an rnav approach.

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?

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?

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

The fix page is not there

why VNAV Is not Implement in FBW A320 ? Why Automatic Vertical Descent is Not implement in FBW A320 ? i am Waiting For PMDG B737

does the Xplane offer FlyPad calculator?

Great videos , keep up the good job, can you please clarify the difference between managed descent and open descent? Thank you in advance

Very good and educational movies you make, can I ask what you use of add-on?

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.

Hi...thank you for your tutorials...i can't see the fix info page in my mcdu. I don't know if it is becausr my fbw version...i have the stable version 0.7.4...

Can the descent start automatically? I remember flying boeing on X-Plane 10 and sometimes the plane started to descent just at TOD.

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.

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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).

The question is, why isn't it calculated on the MCDU automatically like it is in Boeing?

i did as u said but it neved did its decent

Thanks for the video, you could improve landing though :)

Do you request descent from atc ?