The manufacturer offers several different weight variants, each with it’s own MTOW, MZFW, and MLW. An operator can purchase any of these variants. Like other devs, Fenix has picked a specific weight variant to model.
Is this plane able to do GLS approach? Or maybe I should ask is GLS implemented in MSFS?
You can repeat it, but it remains wrong, wheras what AwarePlot117729 says is correct.
I’m not wrong, sorry
So is the Fenix worth the $$$ ??? I’ve read that the stock A310 is pretty awesome ???
Definitely. Both are true.
The Fenix is even worth double the price double the $$$ because it actually looks photorealistic AND has perfect system simulation of the MCDU FCU and all other systems, and the most important detail is, it has no dummy or inop panels all over the place.
Everything is perfect functional, there are only three negative aspects in the Fenix:
The ram air inlet (that is somewhere in the area of the main gear, a small inlet to shovel air into the plane) does not visually open when pressing the ram air button inside the cockpit.
The helix cable of the flight attendant / cabin crew phone in the cabin has a very poor 3D model and does not look like the photorealistic high quality spiral cables of the radios and phone inside the cockpit.
And there are no beeping sounds can be heard when listening to VOR, outer middle inner markers, TACANS and all other things that beep in morse codes 
Too bad because I love listening to these when programming the MCDU, these beeps are so calming somehow… It´s like electronics wanting to talk to me in it´s own beeping language. (You don´t need to understand this…)
But maybe these three things will get patched in version 2.0 and woah we will have the PERFECT Fenix, I would love to pay for this upgrade just to show love for the Fenix but the developers want to do it for free.
Some other 100$ planes look rather simple and ugly which is downplayed with: “who cares about visuals a real train driver simulator school and real flight school simulators also use Nintendo64 graphics, it´s about the realism!”
Well Fenix proves that realistic simulated airplanes don´t necessarily have to look like a PS2 game to be realistic and a perfect functional cockpit
The Fenix is double worth the price because it looks gorgeous it is perfect, eye-candy to the max high polygon geometry mesh crisp sharp photorealistic textures - and it has absolute ProSim system depth, it functions like a real Airbus and not like some simplified dumbed-down toy with all buttons barely functional.
Just make sure that your system can handle the Fenix. It is heavy on the fps, more than any other aircraft, except maybe the 310. If you’re frequently flying into big 3rd party airports with lots of addons and traffic and you’re not on a high end PC then be prepared to make compromises. But you can test it out with the 310. If it performs adequately, then the Fenix will also be ok.
The Fenix will get a complete overhaul, hopefully by the end of the year. I’m still not 100% convinced that it will be a free upgrade. Too much work goes into v2 and the base price is already pretty low. From a business point of view, it doesn’t make sense giving v2 away for free.
But other than that, the Fenix is awesome. If you like to fly airbus and you are craving for something more than the FBW, then definately go for it.
Good stuff here … I’m coming from the Toliss A321 in XPlane and it was awesome. I’m mainly interested in the systems. I want it to be a real FBW airliner. I loved that I could program in a FP and it would fly an arrival and approach perfectly. I love hand flying her but I fly a ton on the Vatsim network and need for her to handle the avionics perfectly. I’m actually building a new PC and plan to fly VR. It’s going to probably have a 4080 or 4090 GPU. Hoping the 310 will suffice as I want to try the bigger birds.
Thanks for all the great replies.
Unless you use this work to make something more ambitious, like (maybe) an A321… now that would make commercial sense.
Well I delete it if you don’t read it here since I don’t use discord.
What DRM exactly do you mean? The FENIX app has to be running, but theres no disadvantage at all compared to the pirated version. Quite thd opposite, the pirated version doesnt offer the same options as the original one. Also, FENIX isnt reading here, place your wishes on the official discord or raise a support ticket if you have any issues.
May need to rethink what you are saying. You would know what Fenix have said about this and how they can stop it if they were really bothered. All in the Discord this was said.
The Toliss A321 is superior in terms of systems and flight model in my opinion.
But only by small details.
And FSLabs too, but also for small details
Hmmm… hmm… I have tested this one and the visuals are simply not good enough. There is no reason to fly the Toliss 321 when having the Fenix.
The FS Labs looks okay-ish but not so much better than the Toliss (also lot´s of blurry textures, and low-polygon angular seats and other objects that should be round with nice tesselation going on in the FS Labs flight deck).
The Fenix is still the unrivaled god among Airbusses 
but maybe the more than promising looking absolute awesome FlyByWire A380 will be able to challenge Fenix quality.
Well just a head up, FSLabs main dev has been flying a A321 on Volanta on MSFS, so one can only guesses whats on the horizon
Yes visuals are the most important. Nothing else (caution the post could contain little sarcasm)
Yes, we can’t only focus on the textures to say if one plane is better than another in the simulation of systems or flight. Fenix has some flaws in their system simulation that they will surely fix with V2. Until then, it’s nowhere near the best simulated A320 (FSLabs).
Is anyone finding the Fenix incredibly unstable under about 8000 feet. I’ve just completed two flights and it was all over the shop, severe turbulence, diving and climbing just generally not how it should be. Weather was good with mild winds. A fluctuation of a few wind knots was knocking it all over the place.