Will MSFS ever figure out why you lose a ton of FPS as soon as your wheels are on the ground? If they figured that out, this Fenix wouldn’t be so bad. I can get “locked” 30 FPS as soon as my wheels are off the ground. Touch down and I’m down to 20 FPS. So dumb!
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You have to delete the discontinuity. The only one you cannot delete are those following a MANUAL pseudo waypoint.
It’s a lovely aircraft and one of the top simulations on any platform. Right out the box, this aircraft is ready to go. One minor annoyance I’ve noticed is the start sequence and display of N1. With the Felix, N1 tops out at 20% whilst EGT is still rising, indicating that the start is still underway. The “AVAIL” is also delayed. You can actually hear the engine still spooling up while the N1 sits pegged at about 20% N1. The N1 value wouldn’t stabilize while the fire is still building in the combustion chamber. That’s what accelerates N1 and N2. It’s the first time I’ve seen this on any other sim platform or RW Airbus videos.
Need some help please. Is there any Pitot heat selector somewhere in the overhead panel? Couldn`t find it.
Probe heat I think - centre/front of the overhead
Thanks a lot my friend.
After i have flown about 25 hours in the fenix, i Yesterday had my first CTD.
Bit i guess it is more of a MSFS thing, then a Fenix one.
Will try the same flight today and see if there will bw a CTD at the same point
That’s what few of us said: it’s a great aircraft, but unfinished yet.
Itt’s the PROBE/WINDOW Heat pushbutton just above the APU Master.
I got a failed-to-start Engine #1 the other day there (Engine #2 was fine).
Turns out I was a little too quick in switching off APU Bleed (or maybe even the APU) before the engine had started to fire by itself.
I restarted the APU, got the Bleed on and tried again, and all was well.
Totally my fault, as I’m an inept captain.
That is very interesting, and I am currently researching if this is a bug or reality in the older CEO Airbusses.
A real NEO Airbus, there is no N1 at all untill 33% N2, and the EGT temperature is going down -120°C after N1 is stabilized:
Here we see the Fenix Airbus, N1 stabilized at 18,5% while the Eject Gas Temperature keeps rising to +140°C more temperature, to 520°C:
Here is an Airbus of unknown engine type having the Eject Gas Temp rising +42°C after N1 is stabilized:
Another Airbus NEO startup, again EGT begins to drop significantly after N1 is stabilized:
(Bonus Video, see the beautyful glass TFT screens no matte desk computer screen but glass with beautyful reflections:)
But here is a Boeing 737 with the same CFM56 turbines the Airbus A320 CEO has, with EGT significant rising after N1 is stabilized, from 375°C to 435°C:
Hm the start-ups look very different, but an EGT rise of +140° seems a little bit off, because most engines have N1 stable at 430°C in all these real cockpits and real simulators, and not EGT 540°C at idle.
Well unfortunately I don´t have the Fenix Airbus yet but this EGT bug is indeed interesting; I am going to check other Fenix Youtube videos with engine starts (but the strange thing is, none of all these real pilots have mentioned anything strange or wrong or even hot-start who have tested the Fenix Airbus.)
Yes a new video from two days ago also shows the Fenix Airbus still having the EGT slowly rising from 340°C to almost 500°C while N1 is stable.
This is a bug and should be fixed 
but these Fenix guys are such perfectionists, I am sure they will fix it with the next patch.
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Wow thanks for taking the time to check some videos on this. I’ve watched a few and also recounted my experiences with simulated A320s on other platforms. I witnessed it again last night that N1 stabilized at 18.3%, N2 around 60% and fuel-flow was stable as well yet EGT continued to rise to above 500 C. Looking at a real A320 CFM start from a training video, it shows a smooth transition of all values until AVAIL shows - what I’m used to seeing.
I recall reading that a good engine start would show a “2-4-6-8” reading: approx 20% N1, 400 C EGT, 60% N2, 800 lb/hr fuel flow.
It feels something may be a bit off. I’ve also posted on the Fenix Discord.
Have you been able to fix this? I also have this problem all the time after pushback and both engines are on!
I’ve been seeing frozen displays a lot lately. And everything. I think there is a network problem with the launcher.
The Fenix Airbus has the CFM56 turbines, type CFM56-5A1, CFM56-5A3, CFM56-5B4.
Series 3 was for the Boeing 737 classic, and the 5 series was for the Airbus A320.
This video shows that the abnorm high eject gas temp with almost ~600°C during start and idling with 530°C (instead of the 420°C modern turbines have at idle thrust) is correct on a series 3 CFM56 turbine:
But the EGT in none of the videos is rising after N1 has been stabilized, it´s vice versa: The EGT temperature is stable at 600°C while N1 is still rising:
Sorry unfortunately I cannot find any YouTube video with a retro Airbus A320 from the eighties and nineties that´s why I can only compare the 737 engines with the Fenix Airbus engines.
This video is nine years old and therefore an Airbus CEO and not a NEO, but unfortunately I cannot see the engine gauges clearly:
Allright at least now it´s confirmed that these CF56 engines can be some really hot fellows and the “abnormal” 580 or even 600 degrees celsius exhaust temp are normal!
But I just cannot find a proper start-up cockpit video to see if EGT continues to rise when N1 is already at 18,5 or 20% stabilized for almost 10 seconds or more like when doing the Fenix Airbus startup.
Is there any real pilot who has flown the real classic from the eighties and not the modern NEO who can help out a little bit with this question? I just can´t find any video of the old classic Airbus A320 Fenix has made to see if the Fenix start procedure is correct.
The Boeing 737 classic and Airbus A320 CEO Classic CFM56 turbines are of the same type but not exactly of the same specifications, it might be that EGT rises for 10 seconds after N1 is already stabilized… or it might be not not.
Sorry I am absolutely not able to find out because I cannot find any cool retro-Airbus startup video clearly showing the EICAS for the camera. 
Only a real Airbus pilot with Airbus type rating from 15 years ago or so can help with this topic…
AHA! There it is. Found it!
No the eject gas temperature is not rising any higher when N1 is stabilized.
The timing of an already stabilized N1 while EGT still keeps rising for almost ten seconds or more when doing the Fenix Airbus startup is clearly a bug.
FINALLY we found a bug in the otherwise almost PERFECT Airbus!
Can some of you owners of this Airbus please report this bug, I have not bought this Airplane yet and I am not yet registered at Fenix.
I am sure the Fenix guys, known for being absolute perfectionists and aviation lovers, will love to fix this bug to make a perfect virtual Airbus.
The NEO exists since 2014 and is active in the fleets since 2016, this video is from February 2015 and only the CFM56 turbines have such a high EGT temperature during start-up so it´s a CEO in the video.
Great plane, it took me some time to figure a few things out but enjoyed my first flight and even used the auto land.
@HawkMoth9135 I finally made it to Miami
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I’m almost in sight of getting to fly this, now. Was on console, lost patience and realised I would never get the full experience I want from this sim on Xbox, so ditched it and am now in the last stages of buying hardware (CPU and GPU being purchased this week). In about a week, touch wood, I’ll have built my PC.
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Between this and the 737 I am in sim heaven, now all I want is a PC-12.
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Pushback works fine for me but like you, did not.
I would never have thought to blame a freeware grass strip, but when I disabled my add-ons, all of a sudden the pushback tug appeared.
After a 5 hour process of elimination, I found one bush strip (https://flightsim.to/file/2719/lfqd-arras-roclincourt-v1-00) had removed ground services not just from their little strip but for the entire simulator.
Of course there could be a number of other offending add-ons but rest assured, pushback does work from the EFB.
Once that had been found and deleted, pushback for the Fenix A320 works just fine.
I hope this helps.
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Hey, I have a slight issue (I am pretty sure it is TCAS, or the thing that shows the pitch, altitude, speed, etc.). Basically, every time I go to pushback, as soon as I start to move, the “TCAS” just breaks. When I stop moving to fix it / reset it, it will sometimes come back and then when I go to move forward this time, it breaks again. And keep in mind, my failures are turned off in the MCDU. Any ideas on how I can fix this?