MSFS A310 Tutorial with a Real Airbus Pilot!

Quick start guide for a full flight in the Airbus A310 included in MSFS since the 40th anniversary!

I am a real world Airbus pilot with thousands of hours flying the real aircraft and thought it would be fun to have a look at the detailed simulations of the 'bus in MSFS and X Plane. Hopefully you find this useful and it brings another perspective to your simulation. Any thoughts or comments are welcome!

This video is intended for home entertainment only and does not reflect or represent any real world aircraft or airline procedures. It is for home flight simulator enthusiasts only and has no real world application. All views expressed are my own.

0:00 Intro/Exterior
05:15 Cockpit Overview/Controls
13:21 Setup
30:55 Takeoff
45:05 Descent Prep
55:55 Approach
1:02:45 Landing/Replay

[PilotStudd]

Was very much waiting for this! As good as the in-house checklist is (did manage to complete a few full flights), it’s so much better to watch someone actually do it! Thanks for this :)

[billolgaau]

Thanks for the refresher, I flew the A310-300 's 30 years ago with the A300-600R's.
The fuel system is interesting with Up to 5 ton in the tail & automatic fuel transfer back & forward to balance the aircraft above 20, 000ft, plus automatically pumping fuel forward on descent.
More fuel on one side it would balance that too.

[robomatt]

The A310 cockpit is like the A320 and the Boeing 737 got together and had a baby.

[jekanyika]

It is pretty crazy how much new content is in this update. Props to Microsoft.

[ArrRoh]

It’s almost like a hybrid Boeing-airbus. Fascinating!

[PERCYxyz]

Great tutorial - thank you so much!

I'm a complete airline novice but using this guide (with lots pausing and replaying) I was able to execute my first successful A310 flight from take off to landing,

Feeling extremely chuffed with myself 😁

Subscribed.

[XciterD]

I love how proportionally short and chonky it looks :D

[kutyafal]

A quick point on the ALT SEL knob. Pulling it sets the increment to thousands, pushing it to hundreds. It's the same in the XP version. However it also activates profile descent if you pull it. So that's why it switched to hundreds after you pulled and took a while to dial target ALT in. You can push it again after activating PROF DESC to get back to thousands increment. Or, alternately, you can also activate PROF DESC by toggling the PROF button. I'm not sure if this is IRL but it is how it's implemented by iniBuilds.

[polygoat]

Couldn't have come at a better time. Time to enjoy this over a bowl of freshly popped popcorn!

[atistheso]

Lots of useful info in this video =). Btw you can switch between hundred and thousand increment for the altitude by pushing the altitude knob. I know not super intuitive.

[mdhazeldine]

Incredible addon. Can't quite believe this is free. Also, excellent tutorial! Thanks so much for doing these.

[AlphaHotelFlightSimulation]

Very thorough and well explained tutorial, as per usual.

Regarding HDG vs HDG S mode - I'm wondering if "HDG" is actually a heading hold mode, where as "HDG S" is a heading select mode. This is something you'd see in older jets - it was a "feature" on the MD80's. It's not emulated on Leonardo's fly the Maddog X - but on the real jet, pushing the heading select knob puts it in heading hold mode, where as pulling it puts it in heading select mode.

In the heading hold mode, it holds your current heading. You can move the heading bug, but doing so will not change the aircraft's heading - it just holds whatever heading you were on when you engaged that mode. Heading select, of course, will turn to and hold the heading you select with the bug. I guess the philosophy behind the design was that if you were flying a departure that had you fly runway heading out to a certain distance, then turn to a different heading at that point, you could put the system in heading hold mode after takeoff, then bug the next heading, and activate the heading select mode when you reached that DME point. I'm sure there were a few other applications as well. You had to be a bit more creative with navigation procedures when using 1980's technology!😄

[simonargent]

Thank you so much for this tutorial..best one on YouTube by far. Please keep them coming

[srwilliams]

They have a temporary fix for the TCA throttle calibration on the inibuilds forum page. After doing the work around throttle is work so much better

[TheGerudan]

The EFB actually seems to take the airport from the MCDU (which isn't 100% realistic, but it seems to work). All you have to do for the rwy length is press the button left of the "1" button when you want to type in the length. That will give you the full rwy length. Same for the QDM. No charts or additional info needed as long as you don't do a shift.

[erlincoln]

Sorry that I am late to the party. I loved your tutorial. Between you and Jonathan Beckett, you can never go wrong. FYI, the simbrief funtion under ACARS is fully functional for importing flight information. Also, the Atis works as well.

[nineteenzerothree]

Great guidance! Still can’t get it to descend on the glide slope though for some reason!

They’ve acknowledged the fps issue as caused by WASM being in debug mode, which means it’s not compiling on load. It should have taken 10 minutes or more on first load like PMDG / Fenix. Looking into a fix

[LinskaV]

And there’s me looking for a tutorial, thank you sir.

[izzyahmed]

I am delighted to inform you that I a new subscriber to your channel, Captain. I must admit that I faced significant difficulty operating this particular aircraft and, unfortunately, gave up on it just one day after its release, as I couldn't locate any helpful tutorials. Therefore, I am exceedingly grateful that you have created an effortless tutorial for me and others in a similar situation. Thank you immensely for your dedication and time. I completed a flight from KOAK to KIAH.

[نادرالیراحمان]

Saved to my library. Beautiful livery and classic aircraft.