Fenix was always No.1 ever since it came out last year, but! Because V2 has now came out, it absolutely earned its rights in being the most detailed aircraft in a sim and realism as well. I found a way to decrease the lagging cuz this plane made my computer lag so much in the game to where I couldn’t control it or anything, click on CPU setting in the Fenix App under displays, for those that experience bad lagging/slow performance. The plane flies so much better now to where I can actually enjoy it, I absolutely needed to get the GSX Pro enable to complete the Fenix update 😅, but absolutely worth it! The plane is so damn good! Theres not much to complain at all
unny how you say that. did you attend fsweekend? where literally every youtuber etc said the FBW flies miles better than the fenix, but that they're not allowed/shouldn't say that on youtube?
The Fenix was never sh*t to begin with. Even B1 was already by far the best addon aircraft developed for MSFS, way ahead of everything else including the PMDG 73s. Now with B2, they have raised the bar so high with every aspect of the aircraft, I don't see anyone else ever catching up to them. Aamir and his team are such a breath of fresh air, all us simmers are truly blessed to have them.
"was never shit" Yeah, climbing nearly 15 degrees on 1 engine, so realistic, and RNP-AR on a very old IRS panel, also realistic, isn' t it? 1600Kg/hr in cruise, etc etc, we must pray to them to never leave and think we are blessed by them, lol
For real though. As a Boeing fan I am so jealous of the Fenix, it's such a labor of love and boy does it show. Even though I won't fly them much I will buy the A319/A321 as soon as they come out, just to support the team, they deserve every cent (or penny, I believe they are a UK team?) that they get. Hopefully one day they may decide to do a 757, a simmer can dream right?
Would love to see PMDG make a better version of the 737 given the possibilities of sim aircraft shown by Fenix. For two similarly priced A/C (pmdg being slightly more) I expect it to be better or at least on par with Fenix.
@A330Driver confused by your comment here. How does pmdg having no rf legs, outdated sound and modelling/textures make it better than a fenix level aircraft??
Very unfortunate title... It's very disrespectful to speak in those terms about the Fenix in a context where prior to this update, it was already by far one of the best airliners in the market.
funny how you say that. did you attend fsweekend? where literally every youtuber etc said the FBW flies miles better than the fenix, but that they're not allowed/shouldn't say that on youtube?
@@Deezorz Perhaps if you paid more attention, you would understand that my complaint is more about the language used than the substance. Anyway, I couldn't care less about how FBW is handled as long as it doesn't even allow you to use both MCDUs, program alternate destinations or secondary routes, perform basic performance calculations, etc., etc. Many people get totally overexcited about handling in their PC sims (specially XP and P3D players) when in no case are remotely close to achieving the sensations of a real pilot flying the real thing, no matter the software used or having the most expensive and advanced peripherals. And all this madness and hype about “feeling” while flying IFR, literally handling the aircraft manually for just a couple of minutes at most per flight. Surreal.
@@FlyingMartinowhich is literally real life too. You handle it for a couple of minutes, so that argument doesn't work for me. Those couple of minutes should be as accurate as it can be. And so far FBW does that better. And actually, certain sims get very close. now I'm not an xp player but it's FAA certified. MSFS could be too, but they don't focus on the realism aspect to achieve that. In stead they focus on arcade shit like a stupid Dune expansion. I have used flight sim for my MPL (shortcut to ATPL) and it has helped more than you can imagine. Specifically in the actual flying part. This was also recommended by my flight instructor. My CFI claimed xp11 was the closest (at the time) to real life. Except at stalls. BUT, he said none of the sims, even level D sims get close to realistic stalls. There are just way too many calculations to make it actually accurate. Anyway, the sim should feel better overall imo.
Thx for the video hope you feel better soon. It’s been nice flying the B2 but I need practice a bit more. Thx to the devs too for the plane and effort they clearly put into it
Hi Emi, if you don’t like the detents on the TCA Airbus throttle, I’d suggest ordering one of those custom 3D-printed detents that move the FLX and CLB detents further up. I did that and they worked perfect, plus replacing them is super easy!
@@g_pazzini SL3 Simulations, look him up on youtube. He makes a great detent mod and it also increases the tension on the throttles. He also makes other mods for the airbus TCA Throttles.
Hi, just wanted to point out that you can remove the detents from the TM Airbus throttles if you wish. It's just a few screws or so at the bottom. Sorry for being late to the party!
All the planes in this simulator on ground move as if they were sliding on the ice. And it's been 4 years since the release. Pmdg She is the only one who has managed to improve this horrendous behavior a little, let's hope that the triple 7 behaves well on the ground
Dont really see a lot of people talking about this for some reason, specially in low speeds it´s really weird to control, pmdg does it a lot better comparing with other sims
There's nothing that 3rd party devs can *really* do. They can mask the problem and make it noticeably better, but at the end of the day the wheels are still 2d points with wonky physics. MSFS 2024 has already claimed to address and resolve this with 3d volumetric wheels with proper friction. Until then we just have to live with the weird ground handling. Less than a year of that, hopefully...
@@WestAirAviation I really don't think asobo can get away with better physics on the ground in 2024. We have planes that don't turn at 11/12 knots... I don't even think it's that impossible to solve this problem if they want to...
Definately. The microphone is apparently very close to your mouth, your cold is audible and the mic volume is slightly too high so that it overmudulates slighty.@@A330Driver
I still feel like the flight physics are very strange especially during flare/ground effect. What do you think? (its better than the previous version for sure)
With the lever asym, check the throttle sensitivity curves in MSFS settings, the default ones are not symmetrical. Once I fixed that and recalibrated it has been fine for me. Whoever made the TCA preset did a very lazy job of it.
Ouch!😰 It hurts my soul when you flare at 20ft with flaps 3... unless you want a job with ryanair, I suggest you to start the flare around 40-50ft! (depending on the external factors) The A320 itself is already a bit shit to land in Conf 3 and with a late flare... well, you´ll definitely going to feel it! 🤪(Coming from a real world A32F Pilot). I really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work! 😄
Flying isn't about the soul, but about techniques and numbers. Airbus very clearly states in both FCOM and FCTM that "From stabilized conditions, the flare height is about 30 ft". Using the correct technique will bring you down smoothly and right on the point. Initiating the flare any higher will cause a long landing or an excessive pitch attitude due to too much energy bled, leading to tailstrike risk or increasing the risk of runway excusion. There's a number of conditions in the FCTM for which you should start an earlier flare. Flaps are not among them. Surely you would agree that if a higher flare would be needed due to the flap setting this would be in the manuals?
@@A330Driver I have to disagree on this one. You mentioned correctly a quote from A320 Family FCTM "From stabilized conditions, the flare height is about 30 ft", but if you continue to read bellow you can find the following: "This height varies due to the range of operational conditions that can directly influence the rate of descent", so yes it is clearly written on the book about operational conditions from which Flaps are part of. Furthermore, with flaps 3 your Vapp is higher, hence your rate of descent will be different than from flaps full (slightly higher). Again it is mentioned on that sentence from FCTM. Flying is definitely not about soul, its about techniques, numbers and good judgment.
@@So0odaa The flaps aren't "operational conditions" though. Again just below your quote Airbus lists many examples and airplane configuation isn't among those. Flaps 3 landings are normal operation. If you would be required to flare 20ft higher than what's written in the book under normal operations, then Airbus would surely write that somewhere in the book?
@@A330Driver If to you Flaps isn´t part of Operational Conditions, then I really wonder what is... I strongly suggest you to have a look at the definition of Operational Conditions, because i can assure you that Flaps is one of them as it is the aircraft weight, runway slope, CG, thrust setting... just to name a few) as it is clearly mentioned on the A32F FCOM. As a pilot I´m sure you know that flare height depends on many external factors and every landing is different depending on the different conditions. Aviation is not only numbers and procedures. It´s about good judgment too. I will not spend more time with this pointless discussion. I was just trying to make a friendly joke and you took it too personal. As I mentioned before, I really enjoy your videos and you´re making very good educational content! keep up the good work!🙂
Emanuel, just to make sure. Do you not know about the "no handlebar" addon getting rid of the ridiculous white bar that still plagues this sim or choose deliberately not to use it?
Thanks for the video! Emi I had to do a double take on the title and your usage of language lol! In the English dialect where I am from. If you say something is "not shit"= no good. If you say "it is the shit" = it's superb.. 😂 I have the update but haven't flown it yet. I'm ready to try it out this weekend!
Hi, the title is a reference to a past livestream where I said „it flies like shit“. V1 Sim made a meme out of it and in the Fenix troll discord that sentence - taken out of context - stuck with the kids.
I recommend setting a deadzone with the TCA throttle quadrant (Airbus or Boeing). I find they’re not really accurate enough to fly without. That should hopefully help with your lever asymmetrical issue.
Hi Captain, during the climb V/S +2000, by activating AP ON I noticed a jerky behavior. In my opinion, the transition from manual to AP should have been smoother. What do you think about?
@@A330Driver Thx for the review, I'd like to see a video where you fail certain things and try to evaluate their implementation of the systems. For example if you fail DC2, some of the valves for the ENG2 like HP are still operational even they should not be. (seems like bad implementation)
hey here, i have a question, for whitch airline are you flying? You have the IAE engines on your a320 and i would like to know which airlines operate them in germany @@A330Driver
I can only directly compare it to the A330 and it would seem okay there. If Blackbox says it needs to much backstick though I’d trust him. He’s got the 320 experience.
Hi, not yet as I’m currently on a six day real world trip down in Africa. When I’m back I’ll take some more detailed looks at many of the new features.
Dear Emanuel, did you change any sensitivity settings of your TM Airbus sidestick after new update? What do you think about Fenix recommendation of it and about new SDS option? In other words - do you have still linear or did you change to curves?
it flys stunning, did a few patterns at LFSB and it was great. Also the brakes (using good old button to brake). Its easyer and smoother to brake and steer on the ground. The Sound of the CFM was like flying last to Mallorca last year from Bale. 😆
@@lt_dreams96 pitch and roll yes. Already worked für me with all my planes. For the Ruder i use - 10 and take the SDS and the rudder damping. Could flying with zwo Fingers. Use the thrustmaster 16000m
I've done a couple of test flights on Block 2 and I really like it, but for some reason, I was getting quite pronounced nose-down pitch on final at 140 kts with flaps full into EGLL 27L. Something like 2 or 3 degrees nose down. I'm not really sure why?
Emmanuel I’ve had now 4 flight in B2 and in 3 of the 4 the planes descent rate is so high it is failing to lose speed causing me to come into approach at high speeds and having to do go arounds do you know what could be causing this ? And what are steps I can take to keep speeds down I don’t want to use spoilers all the way down to maintain speed I don’t know what’s going on
for me the stick feels a little delayed in responce when on final. not as smooth as fbw. for me fbw is much easier to land. but fenix is probably more realistic.
I still feel that the Fenix has too much drag. You can simply calculate your TOD by altitude x 3 + 5 (!) and you‘re not going to have any problems with being high on energy. More like the opposite. There’s no need to take wind or deceleration segments into account. I’ve done my research on this and as far as I know now it should be harder to stay on a 3 degree profile.
Because you don't need a DA or MDA for a visual approach. You already have the runway insight and if you loose it you go around, that's the very nature of a visual approach.
When they are finalized yes. When I bought my laptop lovely MSFS killed my entire settings cloud and ever since I am trying to get the settings right again. It either looks good, not is smooth, but I can’t really get both combined anymore like I had previously. I need to solve that problem before I want to show anything.
Have you had the issues withe autopilot disconnecting? I saw on Fenix's page they have a known issue. I have done three flights and it has disconnected the AP on all three. One of the flights, I couldn't activate the autopilot until 3 hrs into the flight. With that being said, this thing is tame to hand fly.
Seems to primarily happen on the IAEs. When it happened to me I went info the MCDU and failed AP1, cleared the failure, and it worked again immediately.
@danmoretti8898 I was using CFM engines and checked failures and nothing was failed. Showed that everything was working fine...both on the failures page on MCDU and failures page on tablet
@@jasonspiskey4148 Regarding the failures - there were no failures for me either, so *I created one in the MCDU* and subsequently cleared it. That fixed the issue. Regarding the CFMs, I had heard that it was the IAEs causing the issue, but apparently that's not fully true. Thanks for the clarification.
@@danmoretti8898 no problem, the first time it happened, it was like a couple minutes after take off, I engaged AP1, all was fine, then all of a sudden I was getting alarms for the autopilot and I could not get it connect. Figured I did something wrong. It finally engaged several minutes later. The second flight, I was up at cruise, not touching any of my controls or doing anything with my computer and the autopilot just disengaged. I was able to reconnect immediately. The third time, I was doing a 4 hour long flight. It would not engage for the first 3 hours. All three were with CFM engines. I haven't flown the IAE variant yet. I will not lie, I am a Boeing fan, always have been a PMDG fan, but Fenix has made me want to do more flights in the A320. So now, I fly Boeing in the states, and Airbus outside of the states (mostly Europe)
Hi, I only got to do two full flights with it so far as I’m on a six day real world trip right now. Those two were actually the livestream I did. On one of those two the AP failed, yes.
This is what they looked like out of the box for me. I would say you can disregard your blue tint though, Airbus displays are not color calibrated. I was actually quite blown away by the difference between even the differences on the same plane, let alone comparing different aircraft. The one I just flew yesterday also had a quite blue'ish PFD and ND on the right side, but "normal" looks on the left side. Happens.
For the A320 at least I believe the standard flap setting is full, but in gusty conditions or if windshear is expected you'd be advised to do a flap 3 landing. Not quite sure of the exact technical reasons though.
It has ruined all the other planes for me now, except maybe the 737. I tried to fly the 787-9 and it felt like a complete buggy mess even though it's one of the better mods.
i still dont like the flare behaviour, now its uber nose heavy below 30ft, i deflected 50% on the stick and the pitch didn't move, i had to put even more back pressure but then i floated as my peak pitch attitude during the flare was aroung 7° and i ofc bounced after touchdown. the fun fact is that now the only airliner that have a realistic grounf effect if the PMDG NG3, their 738 flares as expected
@@joaobettuTerrible analogy. These are two identical systems trying to simulate the exact same thing. You have to consider which simulator, both module and environment, replicates it best. They are certainly comparable
@@lt_dreams96 wasnt that terrible analogy actually. Toliss isnt simulating the CEO only the NEO variants of the A320 (and the A319, A321 (C)(N)EO). So a much more fair comparisson would have been, "is there a reason to fly the FBW A320Neo rather than Toliss?" OR "is there a reason to fly the Fenix rather than the FlightFactor A320?" first one: no, second one: absolutly yes.
The systems integration was superior from the very first version on. However, the flight model had always some kind of issues. Especially, doing a proper Flare was more luck than anything else. With the new Flight Model the Fenix is finally on a PMDG level - both are now my favorite planes ❤
if you want to measure how accurate the flight model is then use the unreliable airspeed table published by airbus. so far the only addon a320 that comes close to that is the FSlabs a320, coming within +/- 3 knots, which is as good as a thales A320 sim.
I find it awful compared to the previous version. Super sensitive nose wheel steering/rudder, frame rate drops, strange bugs like the pushback tractor not connecting and the elevators returning to neutral even with full back pressure. Gonna fly PMDG until it improves.
Dear Emanuel. you are a gift for community really appreciate your efforts ,just have a question off topic it triggered by observing a cell just in from of your takeoff path ,what is your opinion about weather in MSFS you can enter in a badass CB and nothing Happened, in my opinion an third party weather engine like Activesky is crucial for MSFS obviously for serious simmers
Can someone mention to Fenix that there is graphical error on the IAE engine display reading N2 left and right to the values but correctly N1 in the middle.😢
It seems like the product was rushed to market before it was fully ready, leading to issues with functionality. The testing phase appears to have been inadequate, and the communication about the product's readiness could have been better managed. For now, it might be best to wait for the developers to release a fix or update to address these issues.
