Winwing FCU Review - Pros, Cons, is it for you?

The Winwing FCU for the A320 is an amazing piece of hardware for PC flight simulation. This item comes in at a cool $99 for preorder here in the USA and absolutely sets a standard for price and product.

Winwing continues to innovate, bring quality and while they may be taking lots of orders and aren't shipping as quick as some would like, they have assured me they are GRATEFUL for the support and working diligently to fulfill the orders.

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[theVRpilot]

Are you considering this Airbus FCU?

[marshw]

Honestly, my knee-jerk reaction would have been to reject this as something less relevant to VR simmers, but your video has changed my mind a bit. The price is not unreasonable, and although the size is a factor for me and my setup, I think I could make it work. Awesome review as always!

[mdhazeldine]

Watching this after the FSExpo announcement. The Winwing product line is looking really strong now, with a full Airbus setup and now Boeing too. Looks like it'll be a very nice and complete system of products, at a very affordable price. I get that the miniFCU is more accurate in some ways, but at double the price of this, it's not looking such great value as it did a few months ago. I'm quite glad I held off actually.

[slicker]

Pre-ordered 11/04/24, expecting delivery today (UK) .. great review, was looking forward to setting it up but not disturbing all my other USB's as I also have quite a complex rig ... updated firmware (to 1.16) on a redundant computer before connecting FCU to main sim via powered USB hub ... all good :)

[MySim]

Great video! I am seriously considering getting this to replace my CP Flight FCU as I use only MSFS with a DIY home cockpit, but CP Flight still haven’t got theirs working properly with the Fenix. I am a real A320 F/O and I think with the full glareshield setup, this WinWing unit it will be epic! - if nothing else; because it works with the Fenix out of the box. Their up coming pedestal panels look great too

[brianharris]

Well done! Thankyou just received my unit

[alwatt]

I got mine three days ago..Its brilliant...My only suggestion is it would be nice is WinWing did not have an add on case for it to fit a Alpha, Bravo or Logitech unit.

[briancrawley]

Definitely up for the Boeing setup, but I might try the model you just reviewed for the rare times I fly Airbus. From UK here. I wonder if it will eventually be supported by Spad Next as I have my instruments on a secondary PC..

[SparkySven]

I'm a GA pilot only. Do have all commercial airliners jets like the Fenix Simulations A320 but it's just too boring for me personally in comparince of the Dukes of JF so for me personnaly but for all those real A320 fans and real pilots (I do ln know some) they would love it I'm sure. Great review. Yes having only the A320 panel connected is more safe in updating firmware but try to ignore it and wing it? That's Sparky's way lol.

[markmitchell]

Considering it, but am in Europe so we'll see whether it's worth it compared to an Screendesk and cannibalised Akai pad ghetto setup I have.

[casstephens]

"Most of it, in VR" MY MAN! LOL

[claudiufarcas]

14:43 both AP(s) lit whereas in sim only first one? 🤔

[minutetutorial]

When you were flying, why was your auto pilot 1 and 2 both on when on the simulator only auto pilot 1 was on?

[ericksturm]

I ordered a unit a week ago and it was just shipped.

[ronstewtsaw]

Does it only work with Airbuses? Or can I map it to other aircraft?

[belgeode]

Definitely not my cup of tea but the build quality looks good to me. It sounds similar to virpil in set up... Virpil also recommends you unplug all virpil hardware when adding a new one... not ALL USB connections, just the virpil stuff.

Do they plan on daisy chaining the panels as they make it so you do not need like 6 USB slots to get a full dashboard?

[pilotpawanc]

When are you doing a give away of this? 😂

[Mr_Realworld]

Good review. Went to purchase last night and appears out of stock as I got the pre-order email stating they would email again for payment when it was available. Seems it is taking a couple of months to get these so I'm guessing September maybe.

[asdomega]

good review, but video is too long. you mentioned 3x to unplug usb... got it the first time 🙂

[LadanSoodmand]

Does it work with the A330 and Boeing 737? A380?