The Basics of Flight Plan Programming Using The Airbus MCDU 

This is an excellent tutorial, especially for someone like me who is relatively new in flying the A320 sim. I made the mistake of trying to dive into the A32NX mod, and was quickly overwhelmed by the massive amount of procedures and knowledge required. My plan is to first get up to speed with the stock A320neo sim, gradually taking over more and more functions before moving on to the A32NX mod. Entering the flight plan by hand is a great way to learn the basics.

As someone who just bought the Toliss A340, and I'm only used to the XFMC for Boeing aircraft, you have no idea how much I needed this tutorial. THANK YOU. Simple and clear for an amateur like me!

THANK YOU THANK YOU! I am right about to take off with this Lufthansa A320 in Frankfurt to Buenos Aires, Don´t know what to do, I got this job as pilot lying in my CV. I asked ChatGPT "How fly big plane" and no clue. My mother knows about everything but has no clue either. My checklist so far is: 1) Check that the doors are closed 2) Check that there is nobody in front of me 3) Check that there is food because it is a 14 hours flight. 4) Check in Google Maps where is Buenos Aires, in which direction, left or right or what I am a believer of learning by doing.

Thanks so much! Was able to do my first full msfs flight! I did a330-900neo by headwind from New York - Sint Maarten!

Many many thanks. I have avoided fms until now as my emphasis has been to become a pilot. However there are two more steps -1. to programme fmc,s with the SID/WAYPOINTS /STAR, then having mastered the skills needed, to go to 2. the ATC experience (which still slightly terrifies me). Fortunately you have created all the tutorials I need on my path of discovery, and I will go through these in order until,I can master the full art of being a pilot. AGAIN - MANY THANKS.

I have never had the flight plan explained so thank you for going through that info. Very helpful.

I switched from the 737 to the a320 just now thought it would be the same as the 737 but damm lol it feels like starting over again

I’m pretty late 😂 Buy it helped me out so much, especially When I also fly from Copenhagen many times! Thx

I love your tutorials...good voice volume and good pace...thank you. This is also the first tutorial on the ToLiss which I was able to follow and you are very clear in your instructions...once again, I thank you very much.

Thank you very much. I had been looking forward to this route only today and the flight plans were a bit confusing. You have guided me well to attempt myself at the next oppertunity soon.

Thank you very much for your tutorial!! It helped really much. Im new at flight simming and now I understand how to make a flight plan and load it in MCDU! Thanks

Thanks for this! Been over a year or two since I flew the A320 and this helped a lot

Best Video presentation I have ever seen. It was v. useful and many many thanks to the originator.

Good teacher! You should add a MTO map on EIFIS and explain how to avoid storms without deconnecting FMS as it was made by AF 447 pilots who were badly teached ! The F.M.S protect the aircraft inside a "flight envelope" in order to avoid stall on high altitude.I tell you that because I programmed FMS at AIRBUS in 1982 and I am involved in aeronautical security and ENAC alumni.

Extremely clear and well appreciated.. Would u consider to do a video how you will fly the a320 thru' the flight plan loaded... and potentially how to modify in flight in case of last minute rwy change?

thank you for this video I had been having issues with this I have save it in my favorites for review. Iv'e been looking for a video that could help

9:42 the frantic search for the z key was an unexpectedly suspenseful twist

Well done as always Captain. Nice of you to show the shortcut filling in the flight plan. Neat little trick to know. Take care and happy flying!

I think I should classify you channel as channel as one of the best after Matt Davies :) And Ive been a good subscriber of yours for quite some months now. 😆😆

Hello, what is the difference between this method and the method which you used in the video for vienna to london with the A330? like just inserting the star for departure runway and arrival runway

can you please make a video on executing hold and breaking from hold on automatic or fixed locations and what is involved around holdings with the mcdu? thanks man for your time. your videos are number one

Ugh I wish my MCDU programming went so smooth. Tried programming a flight from Regina Intl to Calgary Intl in Canada and have 2nd time now where the approach final is at a high too steep elevation. Not sure what is happening there.

would you be able to do a video of how to set up your panel for take off and how to set up when in the air? I been having some issues trying to get the plane to climb fly straight and level ect. I can not seem to get it correct. I under stood everything here in this video as I followed along with you on my A320 thank you

You should mention which are the criteria’s behind a specific mcdu runway and star choice, same speech for transitions if required. Reality vs simulation may involve ATC vs simulated ATC or arbitrary choice based upon own criteria. Another difference between Boeing and Airbus fmc is the usage of arrows which acts like a “ touch screen “ direction on the bus while the act “ normally “ on the Boeing fmc.

Very helpful.....did you do a more advanced one? If u did I can't seem to find it. Thanks.

Where did you get the EKCH scenery?

Nice one Osamah. And I'm so glad you picked Sweden - my country - in this one. Would be even nicer if you also did the flight :) And then you only have a short 45 minutes flight to my home airport ESNZ.

Wonderful tutorial. Thank you!

Thank you for the tutorial :-)) Very good demonstration.. Thumps up!

Nice video, thank you! A Q, if I may: I'm no pro pilot but I always thought the flaps setting and flex temp needs to be set before the V speeds are calculated? Cheers.

Love your tutorial. Question: How do you obtain SID/STAR charts? I have a membership with Navigraph, but I can't seem to figure out how or where to grab those.

Thanks for another great video captain.

Thank you so much!!! You are such a great help!!!

Thank you!

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Nice video, question; why you didnt enter the trim settings on the PERF page, I see you only entered the flap setting 1 but no up or down trim settings. This is not really needed or whats the reason please. Thanks.

Thanks for the video! I'm still having issues adding DCT waypoints. I don't have a clue about how to do it. : /

I Am Flying The A321neo In FSX Steam Edition. I Hope This Video Helps Me File The Flight Plan & Use The VPilot Software.

Hi, Q8 Pilot; thank you for your excelent video, one of the best explained I have see about the FMC. One question: making a flight on the A320FF, after loading the FMC with Simbrief, on a flight LEMD-LEBL, I can not insert the first point of the Star said by Simbrief, because the FMC did not find it, so I had to insert another similar show on the FMC. ¿It is really good what I had done or I can do anything else?

Thank you for this nice video !

Great video Thanks!

Great and informative.

Glad to see you get more subscribers everyday .....like I said before.... I learn most from your tutorials ,since your videos are real tutorials and you do not draw the attention towards your personal 'cult status' .I have a request ....right now I am learning the MCDU in Airbus ...will you do a subsequent video on the more sub pages like ,ILS ,phase, radios and more?Please please.

Hi please how do you input your serial number into the MCDU not just me having problems with that lots of people a little video on that will be helpful thanks

Reminder 🤔🤔🤔 since there is very little videos to find on the underlaying features in the Neo MCDU

great job!

Do u have any video that shows how to use sim brief with A320 for x plane 11?

I love the xplane 11 Airbus jar desine

I tried the from/to, but it says "not allowed".

During check back my planning course the descent arrow does not appear. Appears during flight when i pressing descent buton. What's going wrong. Aerosoft A320 V1.0!

Hi, what do purple stars mean in the F-PLN ? thanks

Nice video

How come you cant use inbuilt flight planner in fsx ?? Is that just gps

Thanks!

Great video! What software do you use to simulate the A320?

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Hallo ,wie kann ich beim A 320 neo meine gespeicherten Flüge benutzen ! Ich habe Xplane 11 auf Mac und der Flieger ist von Jar Design

How do you know what u gonna depart through (kema1f) and same for approach how do you know which approach to select?

Can a flight plan be stored on a thumb drive or disk to be used again by uploading the data on to the mcdu at a later date?

How to save this route as a company route?

I have an issue with my MCDU in flight factor A320, it gives me GPS PRIMARY LOST, How can I fix it? any help please

Hello freind, how can I get these charts is there any program do that or you downloaded it from internet

Hi when I just bought jar designs a320. On the MCDU when I try to enter the departure and arrival airports it says: "arr/dep airport not found" I've looked everywhere and can't find help. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Excuse me , what the website or application do you use for planning and find the routes .? And does it work on FSX

How can you tell your cost index is 20?

Is this xplane or prepar3d

mine isnt numbers for the part you said Z226,its letters?

No, I have been consulting simbrief and following your data

hey man, where u make your flight plans? sorry for my english, is really bad

Can you show me how to calculate the cost index?

Getting a 404 error when I try to download the dropbox link

Strangely when I enter NILUG the mcdu says it is not in the database and hence does not proceed further, please help

When i load my simbrief i cant find a sid

I was using this method but My flight plan looks wrong it's have like 2 way points So I just enter the star of departure and arrival runway Maybe because this is not Xplane

It says not in database

Which sim?

Why is your name q8 pilot

Why does this not work on the xbox.

Boeing’s FMS much more understandable then Airbus MCDU ...🤕

Mcdu Haha nice name ;)

Boeing is A LOT easier to use. But nice Video. But please give us more time to see where you're clicking at, the next time.

So difficult.

Whtsands

like the rest poor explaining