I don’t generally buy scenery, but I’ll be making an exception for EGNX, when it comes out. FSLTL should place plenty of Ryanair aircraft there I’d wager. It’ll be my base for sure. 
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BHX, EMA, LGW (Charter for cruises) mainly winter last year maybe same this year not sure yet MAN, BFS, STN and others
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Ah, you should buy scenery, really makes a difference to the immersion. But yeah it can be expensive. It just depends on how much time you spend in the sim and what value you place on it. A great place to start is like you say getting a base. Then fly out from there. For me, I look at it like this, if I spend £15 on a scenery and I fly there a couple of times, I will have had more lasting enjoyment then going for a few drinks and spending the same that is over in an hour or so. I can keep returning to these sceneries over and over again, and I do! Much more value for money than other aspects of life.
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Its actually quite startling when researching on wiki for real 737 liveries and reading in brakets on alot of airliners wiki page (A32… to replace entite 737 fleet by 202…) for basically all of the 737 airline operators outside Jet2 and Ryan…
My OCD definitely is making me feel like buying the Fenix A320, if im ever going to beable to fly “factually” in Europe, let alone, being able to fly out of EGLL 
I might have to just “buy” another “$10” plane
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TUI UK is still flying the Boeing flag.
Friendly reminder (before a moderator comes calling) that this is a topic on the Fenix A320, so let’s not go elsewhere.
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Totally forgot about them mate, cheers
That´s why no one should get too fixated on specific by-the-textbook-procedures, because in real life every pilot is flying an airplane a little bit different 
Like for example who holds the steering wheel in that highly uncomfortable position a driving instructor tells when driving daily?
Who brakes as cumbersome as instructed which means gradually switching gears back when rolling to a red traffic light before braking, no one I am sure everyone just presses the clutch pedal and let the car roll to the light without any gear, and brakes.
The same goes for flying, some “by the book” procedures are cumbersome, outdated, and just nonsense in the real world flying, especially GA.
But in airliners I guess it´s a bit more strict…
Is there a way to deactivate random failures? I play with random and high. After I have a failure, it is not shown in the failure list in the mcdu menu. I can see what is nor working when I go in the manual failure menue. There the fault is in amber but I can’t reset it with clr
ACTIVATE APP PHASE can be used manually if for any reason the DECEL point is not created or just miles before because… YOU CAN and have to manage your flight. If you keep descending without Approach Phase activated it will just accelerate to 250Kts a few miles before the airfield. No issues exist to be claiming there.
FL100/250 speed constraint… ADD the winds (for the descend phase at least) to make it easier for the FMC to calculate more accurately your LIM point.
I’ve never encounter such an issue where you exceed the LIM waypoint way over 250Kts or overshoot it by miles. Any limitation can be exceeded for around 2 or 4Kts without problems, that’s normal, airplanes do not flight over rails, physics exists and they have inertia. You can use ALWAYS selected speed or v/s.
If you don’t add winds or calculate it properly, CHECK winds for the descend and use V/S to descend.
MANAGE your energy, ALWAYS. You don’t have to let the aircraft do all automatically if you see that it wont do it on time. For example you have hard tailwind. You are a pilot and can calculate that maybe you will need to start your descend a little bit earlier to catch the vertical path with a little less energy (inertia). That’s your job as a pilot, is not a Cessna.
Some flights can be more busy than others but people tent to think that pilots just drink coffee and talk about last night tv show in the CRZ phase. (That’s also for those asking to increase the sim x4… let me use a simulator and not simulate 80% of a flight).
I used the Fenix’s a320 since it was released, reinstalled some times due to sim reinstall or a few acknowledged issues (rudder law and flaps 3 drag effect) that they had and solved with a hotfix in less than a week.
Never encountered any issues with the aircraft itself. It is very well developed even until the minimal detail. Why on earth would you want GPS accuracy deviation simulation? You have it.
It always behaves as expected and enjoyed many many hours on it.
-If you go to their discord 70% of the issues people claim in forums are user fault, more clearly lack of knowledge. They don’t know how to use it, which is fine, but shouldn’t claim issues when everything works as intended.
-The 20% is people using a weak pc (yes for the sim plus study level aircraft an i7 9700 is weak) and claim that it’s Fenix’s fault to have stutters party for daily basics. Although yes, MSFS is way away from perfect and performance friendly atm. It would be awesome that everyone had a entry high level or top tier GPU / CPU but sadly it is not.
-The 15% is people having a horribly maintained systems. Or another 3rd party add-on affecting the Fenix or MSFS. They are everywhere, “Nah is not my side is MSFS fault or another party add-on”.
-Finally a 5% are real issues, faulty installation, minor issues that need or are acknowledged or windows doing its thing with priorities for example. Just wait for V2 for some of them.
They do everything to help people and, in that matter, sometimes things I don’t agree with. For example they disabled pedal disconnect button to please users without different axis for rudder pedals and tiller.
Others 3rd party “study” aircraft don’t even have EFB and fly over rails (“it flies and handles way better, I always land with 0fpm and take off like a rocket”).
I thought this thread was going to be filled with a320 knowledge and be a high technical discussion about the aircraft, but is more like a “release week fenix general discord channel”… years after.
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Your post is very informative and interesting, if a little harsh at times 
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The fact that this thread, and no other either, is not a technical is down to how people are. It’s not an experts forum and none of these threads will be, really. They’re all welcome to all simmers, brand new ‘just out the box’ and seasoned veterans of numerous versions/brands alike. Even FPS chasers and GTA buzzers .
In saying all that, back to the Fenix.
As I said, a little harsh in language but I totally get what you mean. To fly the Fenix is to learn to fly the Fenix, the A320 CEO. I do actually tend to treat the aircraft much like a 152 when required. These big ol’ tubeliners are just long and heavy 152’s anyway - they just wanna fly! 
So, yeah automation is fine, but the FMS needs to be fully configured in order to do so. SID/STAR appropriate Approach, constraints checking, use of the phases of the flight, all of that. Yes winds, absolutely winds! And use the takeoff and landing EFB tools, and get that data in there!
And it should really go without saying for sure, Pilot overriding - and knowing how to do it when necessary.
Totally agree. Great post, mate.
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If it is the lack of wind data that might be causing the “overspeed” behaviour, when crossing to below 10,000ft, at what point should it be entered?
I always request wind data at initial setup, but have to admit to being a little uncertain about whether that is just for the CLB phase and whether I should also be stepping through the flight phases and requesting winds for each? As that might be a little early, particularly for a long flight, should I instead be returning to the winds page, via Init A, towards the end of each phase and requesting wind data for the subsequent phase? So that’d be a request for cruise winds towards the end of climb and descent winds towards the end of cruise?
It is not the lack of wind data. You can test this by A, inputting the wind data. or B, using a weather preset and setting wind to zero. It is because the aircraft does not pitch up in time. If the plane is too fast and below the calculated path means it hasn’t followed the path correctly and is a bug with the aircraft, which hopefully will be fixed in an update.
It still leave a question, that I’ve just asked on the Fenix Discord, about whether the Request Wind button needs to be pressed just once, for the whole flight, or whether it needs to be pressed for each phase of the flight?
No answer there yet.
In the real A320 you just press it once, but you have to activate (confirm) it for each phase individually.
thank you muchly
In the Fenix, sometimes you need to request the wind data twice, in order to get the option to confirm it. Anyone else notice this? Like first time, (from memory) the text goes blue with no conform option, if you request a second time, text is green and gives an option to confirm.
My understanding, partly because of this, and partly speaking to friends who have flown with this FMS system, my other half is an A320 pilot, but slightly different system, is that you don’t need to confirm it. You request once, and it will say WIND DATA UPLINK or something similar, with no need to confirm. The confirm only appears if you have requested again, straight after, or at some other later stage, in order to check whether you want to overwrite the data that is already now in (that required no confirming).
I thought you meant the wind update in flight. On the ground you just have to press it once (the asterix should disappear for a short while) and it should insert the wind for all phases automatically. So hat dectenor says is absolutely correct.
Do the wind data at Fenix have any influence at all? 
In contrast to the PMDG, I got the impression that this is not the case. In my experience, adding the wind data does not change the TOD, the trip duration, or the fuel consumption.
Surprise engine run - when the walkaround goes wrong because of earplugs and a failed APU.
Aaaaah no shut it off shut it off! I can´t hold oo…
(picture based on real events.)
Slats 1. The more slats and flaps the more details.
All three cats miaowing in harmony.
The high alpine marmot in it´s natural habitat.
I have a few Discord channels that will answer you the extreme detailed question about the A320. Fenix Discord is also product support and livery orientated, but you can ask technical or procedure questions there too.
What specific details about the A320 would you like to know?