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.
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 !!
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
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...
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 😅
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.
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?
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?
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
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,
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.
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?
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....
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...
@@RealSimPilot thanks for your answer. I did all that you said in your video . That was why i wrote my first comment. When i select flpn...then the first left key...i can't see the fix info label..
@@RealSimPilot i found the answer in the fbw a320 webpage. I have the stable version and the fix info is not implemented in that version. Thanks again for your help.
@@RealSimPilot Hi Once again great video. I can put in the waypoint I need but I cannot input the miles, because MCDU says this is not yet implemented. I an using the development install and not the V0.9.1 Please can you advise. Thank you very much
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).