Airbus Type Rating: FULL MCDU Setup Tutorial | Real Airline Pilot 

Thanks!

My pleasure!

Thanks! The Airbus really is a great airplane, so complex, yet so simple to fly. The French really had some great pilot minded designers!

Glad to hear that!

Yes, absolutely! Thanks!

Thanks! If such data is available you would enter it, but since it's flight specific it's not part of the basic setup from the Airbus manuals. Of course, in a real flight, if you had any such data planned, you would enter it when you do your inputs on the associated pages. Winds would be uplinked together with the flightplan, step climbs entered when you do the F-PLN page. Alternate route is usually uplinked together with your flightplan as well.

​@@A330Driverthanks! I really appreciate you answering, it makes my day! When I do the f-pls page I usually insert everything before moving on to the secondary but I know it depends on SOP and everyone does it differently, I just wanted to know how you do it :)

It should impact a bit your performance due to the temperatures being constant or increasing above the Tropo-altitude. This means it shouldn’t change anything if the TROPO is above your crusing altitude. But perhaps 737NG-Driver can confirm that 😊

Frank is quite spot on here, the option matters because the temperatures change with the tropopause level (or rather: They stop changing with it). On a long haul flight that can make quite some performance difference. Overall it'll increase the accuracy of your predictions if you enter it. But it won't kill you if you don't, especially when you're using an uplinked flightplan and winds which also includes temperatures information.

I haven't decided that yet, but any channel name would be announced well it advance. It won't happen that one day there is no more 737NG Driver.

@@A330Driver Maybe create an Airbus playlist, or change your channel name to include A320 & 737NG in the description.

Hi, "CM1" is Airbus language for "Crew Member 1", or the pilot in the left seat. CM2 would be the pilot in the right seat. They're not using the terms captain and first officer here because you might also have different crew compositions, such as a captain on the left seat, but a training captain on the right seat. Or a first officer on the left seat and a training captain on the right during the FOs command upgrade course. Or a senior first officer left and a first officer right during cruise in a long haul while the captain takes his rest.

Thanks! There's two ways to do this: If the ATC assigned speed is close to the green dot, F or S speed and you're in approach simply activate the approach phase and fly it managed. If you're not on approach or the speed differs by more than about 5 knots from green dot, S or F speeds, then use selected mode.

Hi, it's really a leftover of the old days of IRS input. No special use for those nowadays anymore.

He says at the beginning that it's the Fenix A320 (payware version). I agree it's hard to tell given his accent and diction. I had to put the captions on to understand as I hear 'MX A320'. RU-vid interpreted what he said as "Phoenix A320" which Google search then gave me 'Fenix A320'. It would be helpful if these details were in the video text details. Use Simbrief for flight planning.

haha, I'm thinking about it ;-)

Hi, I'll have a more detailed video on it in the future, but for now: You need constant back pressure on the stick.

@@A330Driver cool! Thanks for the tip.

Thanks! I'm working on a full tutorial series now. We enter everything with the data we have during preflight as it gives the most accurate predictions. You can always change it later if things change in flight.

@@A330Driver Good to know - Thank you!

I like your idea, I'll put it on my list. As for control sensitivities, mine are all set to the default values.

@@A330Driver is that 0% on the sidestick? Mine flight stick by default came -50 on msfs sensitivity.

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No, start of the runway to the intersection in m.

As Jan said, it's start of runway to intersection used

Hi, I'll check the Commanche out over the next couple of days. Quite busy with my Airbus rating at the moment.

@@A330Driver For the training with the Airbus, do you use a level D simulator or the real aircraft?

Have you tried to contact the developers support?

Hi, it's SimToolKitPro. Great freeware!

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What is the problem exactly? You cannot enter the flex temp? You have to select a departure runway first.

It worked fine for me so far.

Hi! Yes it's indeed a custom pilot waypoint, with a track of 247 at 25nm from the runway 25c. So if you look at blackbox711 at airport information you'll see the EOSID which tells you to climb straight ahead till 25 and hold. Instead of doing a custom waypoint you can just put "eddf25c/247/25" and create an EDP instead. You probably already knew this but it was just to give some context and answer your question and provide alternate methods. :)

Hi, it's exactly as anslucas said. Nothing to add ;)

@@anslucasi0980 What is EDP?

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@@A330Driver thanks!

Hi, the type rating is a three month course, theory takes about one month, then two month of sim training. The MCDU setup you should learn from the manuals during the self study phase, then you've got four sim sessions to put it to practice together with the rest of the normal proceudres, after which you're expected to know those.

I really think both are about equal, it's just a different philosophy. You need to study for both and master both. Once done both provide about the same capability.

havent watched the video yet but CM1 probably means crew member 1, aka the captain. CM2 would be the FO

@@mlx39996 thx for answer makes sense.

I just explained it in more detail under another comment, let me copy and paste it here: "CM1" is Airbus language for "Crew Member 1", or the pilot in the left seat. CM2 would be the pilot in the right seat. They're not using the terms captain and first officer here because you might also have different crew compositions, such as a captain on the left seat, but a training captain on the right seat. Or a first officer on the left seat and a training captain on the right during the FOs command upgrade course. Or a senior first officer left and a first officer right during cruise in a long haul while the captain takes his rest.

@@A330Driver thx for the info, many combinations are possible so it makes sense. It’s a good way to write procedures/documentation without having worry about the combinations. Hope the sim sessions went well

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@@JeffJrxx thnx

It'll say that in your takeoff performance calculator. However that's info you only get in the real world, in flight simulation there are typically no engine out SIDs defined. I'm simply using the naming convention my airline is using (my past airline used the same even!).

@@A330Driver thank you for explaining

Coming up ;-)

New company, new lifestyle. The aircraft just comes with it. I would have flown any other type as well if it fitted my desired lifestyle better. It just so happened to become the A330, even though it actually is one of my favorite aircraft.