Ah, OK. So, unless I get any permanent errors/warnings, I should be good?
Yes, there shouldn’t be any red warning after the self-test (you shouldn’t touch anything during the power-up)
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Thanks for that, It may be that I am doing stuff, that I shouldn’t, before those three clicks, so I’ll try and be a little more patient on my next flight.
Once I’ve pressed the two battery buttons and switched on external power, I have tended to go through a pretty rapid process of activating things like IRS alignment, crew supply, emergency lighting, nav lights, strobe, w/s, spoilers to armed etc. Maybe I need to re-watch a few tutorials? 
I recommend excellent tutorial videos by A330 Driver. You will hardly find more detailed ones. The videos can be long but he really goes deep into detail. Start with video no. 17:
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Is it correct behaviour that if the aircraft passes 10000ft during a turn, it will not accelerate from 250 to managed CLB speed until the turn is completed?
I’ve started flying the FBW recently but may get the Fenix in time. This seemed like a good active thread to pose this reflection and question.
I’ve flown GA almost exclusively since I started with the sim back in December. I’m used to a degree of free form flying and adaptation in my flights, be that changes to airport, runway, etc.
Am I right that the Airbus is designed in a way that you must be planned well before your flight. Don’t expect to just hop into it on the runway and adapt along the way. Given how much the aircraft and the flight laws aid you, it seems essential that they need to have all the data inputted ahead of time.
I just want to get my expectations right for how I use the aircraft so I’m not fighting it but working with it the way it is intended.
You can just take it up for some circuits with very minimal setup, but to fly it on routes properly you do need to enter or uplink some data. I suggest you stick with the FBW and see if you like it, if you do then the Fenix is an excellent and very worthwhile upgrade, but at the end of the day it’s near enough the same plane so if you don’t get on with the FBW (which itself is very good) then you’ll probably not enjoy any of the detailed A320.
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I have one Question to ask you…
Do you like aviation as in…
Do you spend time watching airlines be it at the airport or following fr24 and intrigued with those interesting turns and maneuvers on landing and take off…
Or are you purely into just, you know, being free in flying around and up and down valleys etc..
I came from both, when first starting on msfs and now flying the fenix A320 so I can help you out a bit
Definitely the former. And trying to learn and maximise my knowledge and skills. Flying without a purpose feels boring in the sim. (I’m sure it’s wonderful in real life!).
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Here is the next question for you mate…
American or European or Australian…
As in..
Whats your main operator/airline/aircraft type you’d like to emulate the most..
If it’s Australian/American and that happens to predominantly be the 738s and money is bit of a you know.. …
I’d probably recommend to learn the basics in the fbw 320 and treat yourself to the 737, you can get the best out of both worlds but because you mentioned that you want to know if it’s worth it for the fenix…
You certainly won’t go wrong with this amazing bird and with the winglets coming and with the 319s and 321s coming (belive that’s going to be a paid addons..)
I came from fsx and I picked up many bad habits with the use of the Garmin GPS and the old flight planning page in fsx..
It really took me a while to understand this new concept of “actual/real world” flying…
And basically, I had to start from the very beginning…
But with some great YT vids.. Highly recommend 320simpilot…
I’m absolutely loving it..
FBW is great to start and learn… Once you go on to the Fenix.. It is night and day…
But you will find how easy it is to operate the 320… It’s virtually 100% automatic…
The one thing you will need which will make all the difference…
Get a sub for navigraph and use simbreif…
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But basically mate, if you ever get the fenix… Get yourself navigraph…
It will teach you bad habits…
But you can upload basically everything from simbreif/navigraph straight into the efb (electronic flight bag aka tablet) and from there, you basically copy key data like weight and fuel into your fms (the brains behind the plane that does basically everything for you) it’s quite self explanatory and yeah… You select your departure plan and arrival plan, Take off, select autopilot and your away…,
Landings easy too especially if your doing a ILS which selects the frequency for you…
But once you get the hang of it and are fully competent..
Unlearn some bad habits, especially automatically entering the flightplan and learn to do that… It will steed you very well for many planes… You will be thankful to learn that, as well as frequency such as the ILS etc… You’ll need to do that for the 738…
Also learn things like selecting a direct to way point, holds,open decents or using heading mode for especially, if you decide to vatsim they want you go wait for traffic, get you descending faster or before your top of decent or giving you a shorter arrival etc and while your at it… Learn how to change arrivals should winds change
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Thanks for your thoughts mate. Definitely European and particularly the Airbus. I really like their design philosophy from overhead panel lighting to the various prompts and alerts, to the computed nature of the aircraft. I like being able to give attention to my flight plan, ATC, planning descents and landings, adapting to circumstances. And being a single pilot in a two pilot aircraft, I think it’s important to be able to reduce cognitive load.
I’m lucky to already have a Navigraph sub and learning charts and procedures has been part of the enjoyment.
Edit: I went for it - convinced enough that I want to learn and fly the Airbus a lot, so thought I’d go straight to the Fenix 
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Hello all
Are you guys having autobrake disarm during touchdown? decel green light no showing on autobrake botton
For the autobrake system to work, the spoilers need to be activated, so check that you are arming the spoilers before landing, as well as selecting an autobrake setting.
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Landing no blue Sr.
Landing check list complete
Anyone have Active Sky? Just wondering how well it works with the A320, from a frame rate and, I guess, general compatibility standpoint.
I was just going to say next mate, buy it…
Get yourself the fenix…
As much as the fbw is a great aircraft and being a neo and all…
The older 320 is basically the same thing and it’s night and day between the two…
I mean…
Still keep the neo (it’s free and all) and if you really want to do real world neo stuff… It’s there in your hanger…
Once your flying and more importantly, competent with the fenix… You’ll certainly notice various things that you can do on the fenix, that you can’t to yet… (it is after all a work in progress/development) and you will notice them…
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This.
Plus, the modeling, textures and sounds are top notch.
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The uplinks are great to get you started, or if you are really short on time, but I almost never use them. It’s actually very quick to enter manually once you get used to it, a short route in under a minute and a long route probably only 2 minutes with use of multiple airways and some directs.
A key reason to do it manually is that you might make a mistake. The uplink doesn’t make a mistake. What I’m saying might sound back to front, but if you know that it’s 100% always going to work then the cross checks just become meaningless, whereas if you do it manually they are crucial to pick up on errors. This makes it much more fun. And of course occasionally you might miss an error and have to deal with it in the air, adding to the experience.
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Just out of interest, do RL pilots have the equivalent of an automatic upload, from their EFB, or do they always enter the route manually?
There are a couple of other things in the Fenix A320 EFB, like the transfer of weight/balance and take-off performance info, to the MCDU, and it’d be good to know if these might be just be simulation-only aids or whether they actually exist, in some form, in a RL A320?