The incredible team at @FlyByWireSim have been hard at work still working on their amazing A32NX - which we all love - in Microsoft Flight Simulator, and a new feature coming soon is TCAS! I'll add that this version used is pre-release so features will have been tweaked and may differ.
To think that this time last year, we had a number of quality of life items and some SimBrief integration - we've now got a working Tiller, and now as I show in this too, we're soon to get TCAS! For a voluntary group of individuals within the community, it's a remarkable achievement.
Ironically, you don't actually want to be in a position where you set it off however it does happen when flying in busy VATSIM events or elsewhere, where everything gets very congested and you have a few near-misses!
This TCAS TA/RA logic will allow us to steer clear of others when it does become a squeeze - providing multiple different announcements and resolutions depending upon the circumstances.
I mention a few of them in this video, and whilst talking about it - end up triggering the TCAS very very quickly indeed so you also get to see it in action!
Don't forget to hit Like and Subscribe, and follow the flybywire social media channels and discord announcements to see exactly when TCAS is incorporated into the development branch of the A32NX. Thanks for watching!
What you can expect within the new TCAS feature:
8 intruders can be displayed at once
Off-scale intruders should stay at the edge of the screen with the correct bearing - indicating the need to increase range. Currently relative altitude may not always be readable, this will be improved in future PRs.
TAs and RAs should be issued.
No Aural TAs below 1000 feet (radio alt)
-No RAs below 1400 feet (radio alt)
No Increase Descend RAs below 1550 feet (radio alt)
No Descend RAs below 1100 feet (radio alt)
No Climb RAs above 39000 feet (std pressure - barometer alt)
No RAs should be issued when (TA ONLY) is displayed on the ND.
Only TAs can be forced by turning the TCAS mode switch to TA from TA/RA.
When the transponder/TCAS is in standby mode, no traffic should be displayed on the ND
Note that nuisance RAs may occur in normal flight, this is a true-to-life "bug" that may occur if your climb or descent rate is too high. Note that there is a currently a bug with MSFS live traffic where traffic will spawn and "slew" into position, which is (correctly) interpreted as a sudden incoming fast moving intruder by TCAS, which may create momentary nuisance RAs. This may slightly improve in future PRs.
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12 окт 2024
