When using a low resolution the rudder pedals of the Fenix show a strong moire effect. That´s why a higher resolution is recommended when flying this beauty 
1st time trying the Fenix.
Oof. There is much I still have to learn.
But, I had a blast trying and failing to get her started (and I blame in part the tutorial I chose to follow).
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And you will love every second of learning the best and most sophisticated simulated aircraft ever made 
My understanding is, it basically spreads out the display and updating of the cockpit displays to multiple cores of your CPU. This way, one core isn’t burdened with trying to update and display all of them, all the time…
You overestimate my love of learning. 
Really though, for a night of learning to configure my Bravo to the A320, SimBrief integration, the Fenix iPad, and the MCDU, it was FAR more enjoyable than it had any right to be.
The sounds are brilliant. The cockpit is amazing. And features like control calibration within the cockpit, and loading fuel and passengers… and of course the helpful tips Fenix provides while loading are a step above what I have come to expect in a payware plane.
This is the first commercial jet I have chosen to learn, so the difficulty jump from GA to THIS is rather steep.
And for still being stuck at the gate, it is more fun than it has any right to be.
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Yes, if i dont have enough time for a flight in the evenings i simply enjoy spending half an hour programming the mcdu and starting the thing. Sitting in the Cockpit in VR is a thing you cant really describe to anyone who has not seen it with his own eyes.
I have a good Friend who is an Airbus Pilot (350 though) and he helped me a lot with the fenix. He was in Shock when he saw the SIM for the first time.
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How to pushback with EFB by Fenix? For me there is always written “no pushback tug available” even if it stands right in front of me!?
Not ideal i know, but the pushback controls still work, even without a tug.
Yeah they do but aircraft moves directly even without released parking breaks?!
Then it sounds like we’ll both need to await either a fix from Fenix or a more stable and fully integrated version of GSX Pro.
Finally did another trial of manual landing with manual throttle, this time it seems the landing spot is quite spot on (~500 ft from target mark) and single digit fpm touch down flaring, somehow the flaring seems to be quite floaty, is that the overdo ground effect of MSFS?
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I did not meant it sarcastic, it´s an absolute honour and joy to learn this beyond awesome and hyper-realistic Fenix, accurately rendered to the last screw nut and bolt, with all electric systems and circuits and quirks
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I was mostly joking. But I do prefer to learn in the air so this learning curve is high for me. Any first airliner is a bit of a curve I imagine.
But, most enjoyable time I have spent at the gate in MSFS!
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Everyone has their own idea and preference of how to learn to fly.
For example in FS2004 and FSX times when no YouTube was available, I was never able to learn how to fly with some dry and boring PDF documents. (So please, you can link me another tenthousand pages aviation rules manuals - for me that´s as stupid and boring as letting every school desk one pupil reading one sentence from a school book written in 1940 for the whole class, the most stupid form of “teaching” by lazy teachers… *ggg I read only true crime and Stephen King.)
But now thanks to YouTube we have REAL PILOTS showing how things inside the cockpit are done!
That´s my style of learning things, having an awesome REAL AIRBUS / BOEING PILOT in some awesome 30 minutes to two hours full HD videos telling endless details about the airplane the technology behind it, and how stuff is done on the FMC the MCDU, how landings are done what an ILS is.
And I write these awesome infos down in my own sketchbook, and write my own checklists.
Two months ago I did not even know what an ILS even is, now I ask “3° or 3,5°? frequency please, in Boeing frequency + course please! Should I activate some thunderstorm in the weather settings to make it more exciting?”
So thank you YouTube and all you real pilots out there taking their time and making all the efforts to make all these awesome tutorial videos: Thank you for teaching me how to really fly!
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I think this is what so many of us, who have been in flight simulation through all it’s platforms over the past 25 years, love to see. I will admit most of us were sceptical that MSFS 2020, because of it’s XBox connection, would flood our “hobby” with gamers more interested in shooting games than learning (as we continually do) how to fly “study level” aircraft like the Fenix A320. This discussions shows how in fact it has brought us many new “flight simmers” wanting to learn more about aviation and the aircraft we fly.
Most of us have been flying the A320 in various forms from Aerosoft through now to the Fenix. The same for the Boeings and even the GA aircraft have become realistic to the point of being the same as those many of us flew to get our real world PPLs.
As I say its great to see you newcomers to this hobby - enjoy!!!
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You are right, it´s so much better going out to hunt these wilderness beasts and Leshens and Wendigos with some good old witcher siver sword, instead of shooting them!
Not every gamer and passionate monster hunter is a bad pilot not willing to learn aviation, I always wanted to have the PPL and the CPL 
I have to admit that for some time this was one of my biggest fears related to the flight sim, suddenly getting some “keep-it-simple” enforced onto this sim; “no real simulated complex planes and study-level allowed here because we MUST cater to EVERYONE and not to flying-enthusiasts! This simulator must not be a SIMULATOR but some accessible game for everyone, from 4 year old child to housewife who doesn´t even know what an artificial horizon is must be able to fly over his/her house!”
I am sure there were some marketing guys out there who seriously thought about doing this to the sim… But really enforcing this mentality would have done serious damage over time to this precious sim, because the target audience of flight simming has always been and will always be young people who want to have the PPL, real middle-aged pilots (and underdogs like me who will never have the money to see a real cockpit from the inside.)
Everyone else who has nothing to do with aviation is finished with this sim after flying some propeller plane over the house for 20 minutes, and that´s it, “that´s soooo booooooring yaaaawn there is nooooothing to do, uninstall, and next game!!!”
A flight sim should therefore never try to cater for this audience, that´s like making some sports game or a football manager game accessible for people who hate sports. That will never work…
A train or flight simulator is living by it´s absolute true to the core challenging realism and feeling of accomplishment and really having learned and mastered something. The same goes for trucking simulators.
And wow the Fenix really showed all other simulators how it´s done, no other sim out there has achieved that level of perfection like the Fenix!
The most sophisticated home simulator ever created. And we have it one mouseclick away!
And this is only possible if a true challenge awaits, leading to the feeling of having accomplished something special by having mastered a real-life-alike Airbus simulator, having learned real stuff and not fake and all the way fully simplified aircraft systems.
This very special aircraft has lured so many real pilots and absolute enthusiasts to this sim, and also newbies who really got excited when thinking of having the chance of flying an almost Level-D quality home airliner simulator with NOTHING* “inop” (*except the weather radar), with nothing in the cockpit simplified dumbed down and left out, and having absolutely everything simulated including the circuit breakers and all deeper MCDU systems. Amazing!
Our Fenix is truly something absolute uniqué and very special
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Absolutely! I have done the flight sim thing since Flight Simulator 5.0 way back in the early 90’s! I know for a fact that flight simulation accelerated the time to took me to acquire my PPL. After 35 odd years of flying GA stuff in simulators, I put myself in the learning zone for a good 2-3 weeks and watched every FENIX Airbus video by 320 Sim Pilot (many more than once). I now feel very comfortable flying the A320 correctly and with confidence! I will likely devote equal time now to GA aircraft and Airbus models. No desire to learn the Boeings. For those who missed my latest Airbus video, here it is celebrating the excellence of Fenix.
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Yes, it is nice! But I get such bad FPS with it… hope for a fix with FPS, then I will use the Fenix more… 
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I have the same FPS as the PMDG 737 has.
The excellence of the Fenix is absolute unrivaled among all other aircraft of any simulator ever made, but there is one thing that annoys me a little bit.
This absolute 100% Fenix radio silance.
Not even a hint about what is coming next, not one single screenshot, pure 101% radio silence.
PMDG is so much more open, they clearly say:
“Well you will get this this and this, after the 737 you will get the cute calf of the big 737-800 the -600, at the top end of the line you will get the 737-800 in several variants, afterwards you will get the 747 and the 777…” and so on.
And every release they bring on new surprises like the cool new fuel gauge of the BBJ and various other new cockpit enhancements.
Fenix released this awesome Airbus several months ago, but that release was followed by absolute 100% radio silence about what will come next. Or if something is planned with that Fenix (like adding some model variants for example an A321, with and without winglets, freighter and passenger, and other goodies…)
And I am such a curious cat - not knowing what cool things will come next from Fenix completely destroys me inside
Think about it this way, any developer will release their product the minute they trust the product. They won’t wait just to sit on it or go on a vacation. That’s costing money. So just be patient and check maybe every once and a while after a SU.
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