Airbus A320: Auto Landing Tutorial 

Using this tutorial for FSX lol. Update: 4 years later using this for MSFS 2020 lol.

finally a simple, precise and clear explanation.

Im flying an A320 tomorrow for the first time. Don't know how id manage without this great youtube tutorial. THANK YOU!!

Who is watching this for Flight Sim 2020? xD

when did Michael Cera become a pilot?

There is a goof: When setting the flaps you can see on the ECAM that the FOB is 3480kg. But a second later the FOB is 2100kg. Anyway this is a very cool video. Thank you for uploading!

Great series of videos to use with Aerosoft's A320 series for FSX and P3D

Thanks Pranas - I've always wondered how they do that. One of the best instructor videos

Fantastic tutorials! You're a good instructor, Pranas! First rate simulators and demonstrations!

I want an autopilot that allows me to sleep until the plane has stopped.

Wow. It's just so magical and beautiful that this massive hunk of metal and composites can labs itself so gracefully! Thank you for uploading!

These videos from Baltic are the best! Pranis is a excellent instructor, controlled and measured... It would be a pleasure to learn to fly heavies from him... BTW, my father taught commercial helicopter pilot training for years, so I know competent instructors... Thank you!

Always wondered how to do this on Microsoft Flight Simulator-now I know! Great job.

Excellent introduction Pranas, although I've the PPL the step into heavy AC is not as easy

Pranas drulis sir u are explaining very good..your videos are very interesting. I wish baltic aviation would hire you permanently for explaining us.

This is great. I never knew you could learn piloting on RU-vid. Thank you Baltic Aviation Academy

It's only used when conditions warrant, or depending on local rules. Also, most pilots will perform a full autoland just once in awhile to practice. It's always up to the pilot to make the final decision.

You are the Master Pranas.

Excellent, Pranas! Thanks for the truly outstanding instructions.

The thing I love about watching these videos is that the guy explains very clearly and it is so interesting the way he does!

I'd like to see Pranas do a full flight in his Airbus 320.. From gate to gate... Mostly because I want to see if I'm doing some of the setup of FMS right especially for arrival.. For all departure.. I understand how to do the route that's no issue there.. I just find I can learn a lot from watching others do it & Pranas is pretty darn good with the Airbus.. :)

Very well explained. For me it has been very useful since I fly the Airbus family planes in "Flight Simulator" and there were some things I still didn´t understand. Thank you so much :)

Not a pilot but still I love to watch it. I'm a Cabin Crew. You're absolutely stunning with your details about everything. Thank you

Superb presentation. Clear, concise and accurate, and not in your first language...respect, sir, respect.

I’m jealous of these sophisticated autopilots. When I was flying, my ‘78 C172 didn’t even have a wing leveler. No GPS then. LORAN-C was the hot thing....didn’t have that either! 😆

It is easier than driving a car in Romania :)

I've been following this channel for quite a while, and I really like Pronas! He is very cool and he can explain things really well!

An excellent EIS1 Airbus simulator you have there. Lovely!

I have two questions : - 07:18 what is idle reverse? - In order to taxi to the gate you apply thrust as soon as you disengaged the autopilot on the ground right? Excellent video thank you

Another great vid by the drooling Prawn!

Captain it was a pleasure flying with you.

Depends on the weight. I can see the outer wing tank are transferring so it's probably not carrying much fuel. 122 sounds fine for an empty aircraft on Flaps 4. The speed is reduced in a segmented manner to each flap setting, which is exactly what Pranas did. The autothrust is fully capable of reducing the speed in a controlled fashion to any selected value within VMO and VLS.

He Flies Bombardier Dash Q400 now! What a change 😁

Thanks, love your vid's

Pranas, you are gonna be a great pilot. Anybody who will have you as an instructor, is lucky.

Wonderful video. Thank you for telling us these complicated-looking things in a such easy way.

Funny that he said "We are FIFTY MILES to the rwy" and he was at 2200 feet and getting the ILS signals.

"Does anybody know how to fly a plane?!" Ah.. Yes.

Pranas you are the best! hugs from Brazil! ✈

Just a wonderful clip that makes it all sound so easy when in fact it isn't. When something goes wrong is when they earn not near enough for all the skill they have.

...do pilots learn how to fly planes off of youtube?

I love Pranas, no homo, but you can see that he loves what he is doing. He is the star of baa

A great video from a great Pranas!

Is there anyway you could attempt to show a full flight video of you flying the plane with a step by step walkthrough of everything you do? You can break up the flight into different videos too! I would love to see something like this in an A320

Pranas, why do the Boeing equivalents have so many flaps positions compared to the seemingly small number on the Airbus aircraft? In any case, Airbus avionics always seem to make it look so easy...

Just watching this in case I’m flying as a passenger one day and something happens to the captains and I need to find a way to get it on the ground 🤣

Thank you for your videos they're very educational. I been watching them for a long time. Where are you guys located?

@m7mad95 AP2 is autopilot 2. You press it when the copilot is flying. Autopilot 1 is engaged when the captain is flying. When on approach you press them both to make the autopilot more accurate. BRK FAN stands for brake fan. It does what the name states. It cools the brakes down.

One question...why Reverse Thrust under 60knts though?

beautiful! i cant wait to be a pilot :)

Excellent videos Pranas... keep up the good work mate. :)

Very nice tutorials. Go on posting some !

2:25 where did you get 1 tonne of fuel in air?? lol

"So where did you get your licence from again?" "Oh, RU-vid"

Nice one!!! What a great job doing these tutorials all the time for us ;-)

Hi, would be nice if you can include the MCDU where you need to confirm the approach and maybe a focus where the localizer is intercepted on the Nav screen...

baltic01, exit runway when able, airbus a380 on final, thank you.

Oh brilliant thanks! Both the pilots in my plane to London have fainted. Lemme handle this emergency landin. Oh wait! Am on a B747!

Wow this worked perfect on Flight Sim 2020!!! Thanks so much! The whole thing landed itself!

Must be nice to be able to see the MDFs in the simulator. In VR (AreoFly FS2) the display texts are a bunch of blurry pixels and i have to take off the headset and look at the screen to see what it reads. Have learned to listen to the sounds so for example i can recognize over-speed without reading. Nice plane to fly though, would be cool to try a real training simulator some day.

Today I'm going to show you how to have a seizure...

120, that not staling the plane even with flaps on?

Plainly spoken both autopilots are the same thing, but they are using different data sources (like air data, flight director, etc). There is more than one basically for redudancy (in normal ops usually when the Captain is PF, they fly on AP1, when the FO is PF - they fly on AP2) and for when performing a CAT III approach (coupled data sources give higher precision)

awesome video. i have sim check in the coming month....so will be required to do circuits...one with 2 eng and one with one eng failure at v1.....i knw its easy stuff...but been out of flying since 3months.. so would be better if get a chance to get to see..when to do what stuff..thanks guys...keep it up u doing grt stuff for aviation community

Do airline pilots have to know how to successfully land a plane manually in a cat 3 approach?

The flickering from the screen gave me a cancer. Great video though.

Great Video!! The aircraft do the flare themself or you need to select it on the Multi-funcion Control Display Unit (MCDU)??

OUTSTANDING video! - If I practice this in FSX on the same model, I wonder how accurate it will be?

I like the video but I don’t see any response or comments from Baltic Aviation.

why ap1 and ap2 ?

Very cool. Thanks, Pranas!

Great instructions, great landing, congratulations!!

123 knots are a bit slow. isn't it?

I've heard it's a fairly hard landing, not quite as smooth as when done manually.

For a student you're a very good teacher. Cool vid !

Terrific video,we want more of this!!!!!!

I am never planning to land a plane. How did I end up here?

after i watch this, without a doubt, i can fly the airbus A320... really

Thanks Pranas, awesome training :)

Very nicely done!

ALWAYS CHECK AUTOLAND FAIL LIGHT BEFORE AUTOLAND! :)

when i think "automatic" i think "push button, automatic land and chill"

Thanks to give us the oprtunity to fly with you! You are the Best!

Nice explanation from you. Great video and amazing. Thank you for sharing. :-)

DH(decision height) and minimums are the same thing. Here it is set to 20 feet meaning the pilot must have the runway in sight at "minimums" callout to continue with the landing. If the pilot does not have a visual on the runway they must execute a go-around.

Hello Baltic Aviarion, I`ve watching your videos for a few months now, and they are so great !, Im an Aviation Enthusiast, Best Regards from Costa Rica, Our Airport Code MROC.

Awesome tutorial! Thanks a lot! Can you suggest where to find optimal approach speeds?

A lot of the time an ILS approach will be used, but then the autopilot is switched off when they have runway in sight, or, when MDA or MDH is reached (minimum descent altitude, or minimum decent height). An MDA is a baro height, an MDH is a radar above ground altitude. Of course, if the A/C reaches minimums on an ILS approach in instrument conditions, and the runway is not in sight at that time, a missed approach is declared. (ICAO Annex 6)

Really informative and interesting tutorials.

Outstanding presentation..

Normally all 3. Using full reverse thrust with just the mains down can get squirrelly, esp when there is a crosswind. It has to do with the sideways component of reverse thrust, which reduces directional stability.

If you'd looked up the published Cat 3 ILS approach to KLAX RWY 25L (the preferred emergency runway there), you'd see they have you intercepting the localizer and glide slope at either 3600' or 5000' when assigned by ATC. Not 10,000.

I dont have an Yoke, i use only Keyboard & Mouse for MS Flight Simulator 2020. manual landing is not feasible. But this video helps me understand this complex plane. Good job!

Very Excellent teaching method.. my brother.. Good

Amazing and very detailed video!

Thanks Pranas great video.

Good auto pilot tutorial of A320. .. I like your video. Thanks.

So I have been landing too fast on FSX 123 mph on touch down is that what I should aim for ? also I have been switching auto pilot off just before touch down, so it seems I can leave AP on until on the runway ?

Hello, thank you for a great video explaining landing procedure. Two questions: 1. Can the a320 do a similar landing to a runway without ils equipment and only rnav routing through the gps. 2. From FS2020, i have tested airports in Honduras (i am Honduran) and teste ILS 22 on MHLM coming from the south MHTG. the auto landing with ILS was not succesful as i believe the plane couldnt handle the tight "uturn" to land on 22 and lost completely the runway. Could this be a bug in FS2020 or in a real landing pilots enter to the f-plan a more northern waypoint to get a smoother transition to ILS?

Hola Cordial Saludo, Lo Felicito, Excelente Vídeo, Muy didáctico, Gracias por compartir tus conocimientos de manera tan generosa. Saludos desde la Ciudad de Ibagué, Colombia.