FENIX A320 - Advanced MCDU Full Setup & Performance Calculations | Tutorial Series Part 2

Welcome to the second video in a new series of tutorial videos taking you on a full flight from Manchester to Prague. Each of these tutorials is designed and based on real world procedures used by A320 pilots around the globe to make your flight simulator experiences as realistic as possible.

***NOTE*** - Due to an error with the audio at the end, the final couple of minutes of this video can be seen at the start of Part 3 of this tutorial series, with the correct audio in place.

Episode 2:- This episode takes you full a full MCDU set up in the A320 for our flight from Manchester to Prague. We go in detail through each stage of the setup including using the Secondary Flight Plan for our Engine Out procedure. We also then look at doing accurate performance calculations for departure.

Flight Route:- EGCC/23R F370 SANBA1R SANBA UN859 HON L15 BIG UL9 KONAN UL607 KOK
DCT MATUG DCT GUBAX DCT KOMIB DCT TONSU Z35 LOMKI LOMKI6P LKPR/12

[dotChuckles]

@Easyjetsimpilot 36:50 You may want to look at your tracks in edit. You've got your sign off audio running under your main audio.

[juliashenandoah]

The Fenix Airbus is an absolute masterpiece and milestone of simming. The best airplane I ever had :) thank you very much for the tutorial video.

[ravelino]

A tip for others like me, that use SIMBRIEF but doesn't have an AIRAC subscription, and uses AIRAC 2103 (or other old), that uses a different type of LatLong coordinates and by that reason is not able to import flightplan for FMC (Fenix returns the message INVALID F-PLN UPLINK.

After a contact with Fenix support, kindly replied by them in short time, I found the soution.
They confirm that they located a bug when importing some formats of LatLong coordinates. They have determined the ARINC 424 shorthand coordinates will import without any issues. As a workaround while we work on fixing this bug, wu must convert LatLong coordinates into this shorthand format as explained below:

Placement of the letter designator (N, S, E, W) in the string of five characters indicates the value of the longitude one-hundredths digit
The letter in the last position indicates longitude is less than 100
The letter in the third position indicates longitude is 100 or greater
Examples:
N 52 00/W 075 00 = 5275N
N 75 00/W 170 00 = 75N70
S 50 00/E 020 00 = 5020S
N 50 00/E 020 00 = 5020E
S 52 00/W 075 00 = 5275W

Gav, please feel free to remove this my comment, if you understand as not appropriate to be included in your channel.

[Yamanotefy]

Love the audio cameo of Gavin @36:49 😂
Fantastic in-depth presentation as always!

[MrNeilRoberts]

At 36:50 there’s an extra audio track crept in somehow ?

Anyways …. This video is exactly what I needed because flying the Fenix A320 based only on 737 knowledge isn’t as easy as I thought it would be lol 😂

[pendolinofan]

I’m planning on watching this series 55 times to get me use to it.

[MrPT]

From 36:50 there are two audio tracks layed over each other and you could not understand what you would like to say.

Otherwise, great tutorial !

[Dannyp]

Thanks for these very informative videos! Especially at 19:45 which helped me alot. I noticed i got confused several times with the Final load figures, the figures on the EFB and what i actually have to put in the MCDU myself, while setting up a flight!

[breezybeats]

This tutorial is gold. Love your work mate 👍

[JohnVanderbeck]

Some questions if anyone can assist:
1. Flight number vs call sign. I understand what was said, but slightly confused because at least on VATSIM it sounds like everyone simply uses their flight as their callsign?
2. What is "tropo" I didn't understand that bit (On Init A)
3. I keep getting entries called "MANUAL" which I seem to need to CLR out. What's the deal with these and why am I getting them? How SHOULD I handle them?
4. I noticed your "greeen speeds" in INIT B were slightly different than the calculations, and this happens to me as well. Why?

Observations:
1. Damn didn't realize the loadsheet had more pages haha.. I was wondering why it didn't seem to show me everything I needed, so glad I caught this!
2. In the past I could never get the alternate fuel to enter, but I was also putting in my planned block fuel first so maybe I had the procedure backwards. Going to try this again. I was also just entering the value from simbrief rather that letting the AC tell me what it wants so I was doing that wrong!
3. I've encountered some airports like TNCA don't have runways in the Departure Perf app so not able to do the calculations at all :(

[georgerodrigue]

Video is fantastic, love it, it's a masterpiece. The only thing for me (83) young, I had to hit the pause button a Zilion times. Adain, thank you so much.

[fernandonunogoncalves]

--great totorial. Very dense but needed. Now we need to practice. Thank you Gavin. Have a fantastic day.

[pigavoo]

Fantastic tuto. I learned more about flight planning that Idi on 2 years of flight sim. Great!!!

[ola.ljungqvist]

Amazing. Pure magic. The flight sim world is becoming more and more realistic. Me like :)

[zcztvls]

Where do you find the TROPO value to input into the MCDU? Also your Simbrief OFP format looks a bit different from the default LIDO one. I like the layout on yours better, could you please share it?

[darrenmcewen]

This is fantastic but the ending starting around 36 minute mark is dubbed over with secondary voiceover :)

[kyle]

I tend to leave the inbound discontinue as it’s a reminder that ATC will vector me in
I’ll delete when close when ATC is offline

[madsib]

The tutorial I've been waiting for! Greatly explained, thank you, Gavin!

Please let me know the two things:

Is the engine out procedure also shown on the navigraph charts?

How do we activate the sec f-pln?

Many thanks!

[christophertaggart]

Always my go to tutorial posts, but when adding the ZFW (CS) weights, I always get ‘invalid entry’, until I change my units on the pad to Metric

[michaelhamilton]

I've recently come across an old training video for American Airlines and apparently, in the real airbus, when you enter the cruise flight level and temp you don't need to press the "minus" key as the system logic recognises the value entered must be a negative and will add the minus itself. I've tried this in the Fenix and it works which shows just how much attention to detail the Fenix team have payed in developing the A320 when even tiny details like that are accurately modelled