Why Extending The Runway Centerline & Cleaning Up The Flight Plan is Important! | A320 in MSFS 2020 

Hey buddy, Typed 320 pilot here. Great video on a topic not often discussed in the simulator world but is absolutely crucial! Allow me to help flesh out a couple things: 1) We call this “sequencing the box” to make sure, as you said, the plane knows where we want it to go. The upper right corner of the ND we call “checkride corner” because during our check rides (and always, really) you need to ensure the proper information is displayed. On type rides we do a lot of approaches and it’s easy to screw up the sequence, hence the name. 2) A third option you missed was “clearing from the top” So additionally you can clear points from the flight plan until your intended point is in your check corner. This sequences the box also, you will not see an extended centerline, but see my next point. To do this, you press CLR > L1 until you’re properly sequenced 3) The flight plan will sequence to the next waypoint if you are within 5 NM of the current to waypoint. So if you clear from above and you’re within 5 NM of the fix, it will sequence properly. This is important to know because it could be faster to clear from the top instead of typing in the Direct To page 4) You mentioned it, but just to reiterate, all this is doing is sequencing the flight plan so in the event of a go around, the navigation is set up right. With an approach mode engaged, that takes precedence over the navigation. You can also use the extended centerline to “track” a loc inbound if you’re outside of its service volume or if the signal is weak and causes the nose to “hunt” for the signal. Sometimes that’s a problem in real life.

One of the best tutorial for managing the FMGS in final vectors on A320 and never sawn before for MSFS. Congrats !

Does this work on the Flybywire A32Nx?

Neat little trick, thanks :) I assume you could also just delete the upcoming waypoints individually?

Sorry I hadn't watched this video a long time ago 😅

Can you add distance rings to the landing runway and at which point should you activate the approach phase if you are vectored off before the decell point?

Thanks for this tutorial. Did you set TOGA thrust when you initiated the go-around?

Do a missed approach at Innsbruck at minimums on 26 where you flew past RTT and didn’t sequence the flight plan correctly…….. 🛫🗻💥 🤕

Youre the best mentor

PERFICK Gav, spot on to what i need to practice. I can now feel confident when ATC vector me off the STAR and to find the LOC intercept point. Now i am going to search your previous Vids for the 'Go-Around setup & procedure'. Thank you Sir.

Gav, are these systems representative of the physical aircraft?

Thank you :D

Very nice. Thanks for this, I learn something new everyday 😊. Will have a go at the weekend!

Awesome

Very useful when atc giving vectors. Thanks Gavin !

Fantastic video, excellent information and adds great quality to the flight.

Thank you sir for this nice tutorial. You gave meaning to at least a few of my next flights, experimenting the new approach.

Nice!! Thank you for showing this and I will try it on my next flight!

Thank You Gavin that has helped me out a lot as I tend to do exactly what you said and on a go around head off in the opposite direction.

Very helpful information! Thank you!

This is extremely interesting. Thank you very much for your tutorials and very clear instructions. One question by the way : which airbus A320 version are you flying (so many possibilities a320 neo, nx, developper x'y'z...) ?

Cool never used this option before. In the Manchester case I would have I used abeam option to leave that waypoint in case of some constraints might be even able to stay in nav mode.

Obviously you are right to pull 'heading' again after creating the extended centerline but (!) what you said in the video (..." because you dont want to go directly to that waypiont ...") isn't quiet correct or a bit misleading - the ac will not turn towards the runway waypoint (which you used to create -and clean-up your nav track) but as you can see in your video this will create an intercept point of your current heading and the extended centerline ! So you do not want to forget to switch back to heading, correct, but you do not have to rush it either, because nothing "weird or crazy" will happen

I did this all every time.😁

Nice! Do you know if it works on the FBW yet as well as similarly on the ATR? Not able to check at the moment...

thanks once again

Thanks !! Great content

Top Video and very clear explanation.

Thank you !!!!