I finally bought it and have taken it for some test drive, and so far I am happy with it.
Nevertheless, the missing sim rate increase is still something I greatly miss, whatever the reason is. Everyone is master of his/hers own free time, and there are many of us who cannot (or do not want to) spent three hours or more for a less than 1000 Nm flight. So, to have the increased sim rate option is nice - in some cases a must.
Sim rate is on a standard Simconnect var, so any external app may be able to read it and to act accordingly.
Of course, I fully respect those who want to have an “as real as it gets feeling”, but for me this is just entertainment (not professional training or career developing) and I maximize my joy by speeding up the cruise phases of flight.
If the Fenix guys are smart, they should cater to all users, not just to purist hard core simmers…
The FBW people realized that and re-introduced the sim rate feature in just two days…
Why don’t you just fly shorter routes then???
Examples: love to fly from US to Caribbean’s/Europe to middle east/Europe to canaries/US coast to coast. Many others. All used the a320. Dont want restrictions. Again, the main point that this is a standard for many many years. PMDG respected that recently and I am very upset I purchased it so quickly without waiting on a feedback. The plane itself is a masterpiece I loved all about besides this one small non-starter
The lack of sim rate increase could be due to possible instabilities in simulation. This is complex aircraft after all. So, probably could be not so easy to implement. Just a guess. Maybe PMDG use some tricks to deal with it which Fenix didn’t use. Don’t know.
Anyway, not a purist, but I still wonder what is a the fascination with long flights if you do not have time for them. A320 is widely utilized on short routes. Heck there are some 20 min flights somewhere in Indonesia. I just don’t see why? With time multiplier you cannot have failures, because no time to react appropriately, no live weather change. Fuel management? Well, it’s just two buttons to shut the pumps.
Yesterday i just circled the airport with my a320 with IFR 
What about plane documentation?
Is there something beyond the 13-page PDF “Manual”?
I was expecting something at least with the level of detail of the FBW guides…
I wanted to learn the missing gaps I have in A320 handling, and I’d rather not to have this by watching hours-long Youtube videos…
The aircraft is so realistic that I guess we are supposed to read real-life SOPs and other manuals 
I think so too. I found the fcom now 
Will have it on my phone while flying. Easy to bring up when needed.
I heard Toolbar pushback decreases performance on Fénix. I will try without as well.
Just I’ve read an FS news article that says after various test wiht the bird is better to keep it balanced with CPU load, but anyway, I will try it by myself.
Regards.
I wonder if this part really is simulated? That requires them to simulate a liquid in the aircraft. Feels like i want to try if it is.
WHEN FUEL IMBALANCE REACHES 1 000 kg (2 200 lb):
BANK ANGLE…2° or 3° WING DOWN ON LIVE ENG SIDE
Use fuel from the opposite wing tank, until fuel imbalance is reduced to 0
I have found the fcom pdf. many pages. i think around 3000 pages
Normally my CPU works at 35-40% load with the latest payware Airliners like PMDG or Maddog. Even with FBW A32nx.
I have a great AIO CPU cooler so my temps with 80% CPU load are not a problem. But my FPS drops to 20 -25 in cruise when romally I have a stable 45 fps.
Thanks to the DX11 pipeline, you’re likely main thread limited with one core pegged at 100%. Offloading some of the rendering to the GPU could help - assuming you have the GPU overhead to do so. A higher single-core speed processor should help you a lot, but I realize that isn’t a very practical solution.
Fenix gives you double the load on the cpu? No i’m kinda worried about my rig.
It would be nice if Fenix could have fps settings for the displays like PMDG did for their 737. If we could set 15 fps to some displays than life could be better.
Would be great if Fenix could find a way to move the rendering to a different core. It’s quite frustrating to have 8 cores and only 1 is running hot.
Does anyone know the correct way to disengage autopilot before touchdown? I always get the master warning bell and an ECAM message about “AUTO FLT something something” is disabled.
This is mostly a limitation of DX11, as it allows only one main thread with the other cores acting in a secondary or supporting method. DX12 is a more efficient multi-core environment, but obviously still needs optimization.
The fact that Fenix allows you to switch display rendering to the GPU is pretty interesting. I think some users with beefy GPUs would benefit from this.
“Autopilot off” should be assigned to the red button (joystick). When you assign controls choose “all” and find it from the list
Thanks I’ll try that.
I actually only fly shorter routes. But even a small hop from Brussels to Hamburg often takes too much time and I need to quit before landing because something came up. I don’t need 8x or 16x fast forward, but 2x or 4x is handy. So a full flight takes 60-75 minutes from cold & dark to shutdown. I currently can’t afford more time than that.
I’ve already said this: this plane is wonderful, but it’s very badly optimized. PMDG wins for that.