It´s waaay better to have a “glorified bitmap generator” than having every radar, weather radar etc. another handful of years 100% INOP 
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Newbie question…
I’m flying here in the US, and when I load the Fenix 320, on the glareshield it defaults to hpa for the barometric pressure unit. I can toggle it over to inhg there but, is there a default setting for this somewhere so for me, it loads with inhg all the time?
Done my first LSZS landing, but still I struggle to strike the balance between a smooth touchdown and floating down the runway.. any suggestions?
Helped me a lot to check the YouTube from A320pilot about the joystick settings.
I believe it’s minus 30% for lateral and minus 9% for vertical. The Fenix really flies a lot better ever since.
I think you’re flaring a bit early. Usually floating like this is due to going too fast and/or flaring too soon. Set the throttle to idle at 30 ft (or at the 40 ft callout to transition), pull up to flare, and don’t apply any downward pressure once flaring. If you try to correct the pitch during the flare, you’re just going to float more and risk running out of runway.
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Pretty sure you flared a touch early. Landing looked pretty good otherwise. Wait till the end of the 30’ RA call-out to begin the flare.
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Calling it a radar may make people think that there’s an antena radiating the ground for you to see the terrain depiction on the screen. It’s not like that. The terrain map is a 3D image stored in the airplane’s database that changes color depending on airplane’s altitude. It does not use an antenna. It’s not radar.
Yes it’s a game, of course, but people use this game to learn how real airplanes work and to fly them as closely as possible to how the real airplane is flown (especially at the level of PMDG and Fenix).
There are considerations regarding operating anything radar, that is, don’t use it on the ground when humans are near the airplane to prevent giving them cancer and reproductive problems. This it not an issue with the terrain map because… it’s a map, a bitmap, not a radar.
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This is not a game. It´s a Simulator
otherwise you will make me feel like a gamer and not a pilot!
What happens when a pilot takes out his laptop and begins to play Doom2016? Is it a gamer-pilot in this case? 
Well i play on my ipad while flying so i guess SimGamer would be a nice nickname.
To confirm - the MCDU cannot play the original doom…
Mainly as we haven’t tried to code it in yet.
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But the A320 has a printer… Everything can become an instrument of Doom.
I personally love the RNAV 03 approach more if you are still looking for a good scenery there is LSZS as freeware
https://flightsim.to/file/3361/saint-moritz-samedan-airport-lszs-v1-0
Greetings from LSZS
Just did another go, this time coming a bit low and the touchdown spot seems acceptable with ok fpm. downloading the addon and will try another go. I mainly enjoy the challenge of manual descend
Does anyone else have an issue with the Fenix app that launches, while loading a flight? In my case, if it’s the first time, flying in the sim for the day, the Fenix app freezes at the “processing data” step when it launches. Now the flight will load and all, but the Fenix app is frozen at “processing data”. If I close the sim, relaunch, and start a flight, the Fenix app launches again and works. It’s literally on first launch of the sim, with the Fenix, it freezes up…
Hello.
Weather Radar is still not available or is it me who does not activate it well?
Only available Terrain Radar?
Thank you.
Yes, I have that issue since the last Fenix update. I find that opening the Fenix program before starting the sim, then closing helps. Sometimes it’ll do what you described, other times it’ll work normal.
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it’s not available yet as there’s no interface for the addon to fetch the weather data.
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It’s more a game than a simulator really. If you, as a non pilot, bought a full 40 million dollar level-D simulator and had it installed in your house, it’d be a game. For them to be simulators the realism would have to be orders of magnitude higher to the point where you wouldn’t need the real airplane to test something you’re wondering about.
It’s a very realistic game. And I’m speaking as someone who grew up obsessed with MSFS since FS5.0 and pretty much went on to become an airline pilot BECAUSE of it. I also wanted it to be a simulator and not a game badly but I realized how far off that statement was as soon as I set foot in a real simulator and understood how useless I was in the real thing after decades of simming only because there was no structured training system behind how I used it. Nothing wrong with calling it a game though.
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After the next update the Fenix will achieve such perfection that everyone will nod in agreement when considering it as the holy grail of simming
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