When using the default managed speed mode the autopilot should reduce speed at high altitudes, the higher the plane flies, the lower the speed should be. Since SU5 this doesn’t happen anymore, the speed stays at 320 on CLB and at 285 on CRZ. The plane should not operate at these speeds over FL300, it even sounds the overspeed warning.
Workaround:
Until this is fixed you can manually adjust the speed with the leftmost knob on the autopilot panel.
This thread is about the vanilla A320, not the A32NX mod.
It’s broken again completely. It won’t hold altitude, it flutters up and down, when in slew mode it shows 2000 higher altitude than when not in slew mode, it’s just terrible :D.
Altitude in slew mode is based on ISA temperature and pressure, using live weather you should pretty much always expect it to show a different value. Granted there is a bug right now that impacts non standard temperature and pressure.
Actually, this bug is impacting the standard temperature and pressure as well. At FL 390 (baro set to std) I turn on slew mode (because the default A320 won’t hold altitude. it keeps on descending and then climbing, it actually drops over 300 ft below the assigned or climbs 300 ft above) and in slew mode it shows 2000 higher altitude than it is shown on the instruments. Then, after exiting slew mode the airplane is actually positioned 2000 ft higher than it was. It is again completely buggy yand broken and unflyable.
So if I understand correctly your problem is that the plane is not able to hold FL390 by itself right? This has been a problem since months, since they changed the fuel consumption in a previous update. The engines are too weak to climb to high altitudes. You can go into the engines.cfg file and change the fuel flow scalar to 1.04 and the static thrust to 30000. With this setup climbing isn’t a problem anymore. The file is in the game directory in LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore\asobo-aircraft-a320-neo\SimObjects\AirPlanes\Asobo_A320_NEO
Also live weather is broken atm, you have to fly with preset weather. Using live weather the temperature is way too high, which negatively impacts the physics of the plane and prevents it from climbing to high altitudes.
But these problems are not the bug I was talking about in my post.
I can confirm that the Speed and Heading controls on AP are not working anymore. You can switch from auto speed and nav mode to manual speed and/or hdg mode, but you can’t switch it back to auto anymore. A320 FBW updated from the market.
My problem with the A320neo is that it doesn’t climb on its own now. I had to climb to FL280 and it just stuck at 20,000 ft and didn’t go further up. I had to engage VS mode (which has its functions reversed compared to what the tooltip says, X doesn’t level the aircraft, it instead actually engages the thing), and even then it just rollercoastered up and down, barely gaining any height. Granted, I was in a storm and it may have been turbulence but I have never encountered this issue before.
Also, there have been quite a few occasional glitches where the plane gets completely out of balance and the AP auto-corrected itself. As if someone pushed the plane suddenly to one side. It doesn’t feel stable at all.
This sounds like the problems you get when flying with live weather, which is broken since a few days. The temperature at high altitudes is way too high, preventing the plane from climbing. Try flying with a weather preset.
Now it doesn’t descend either! Only if I engage the VS mode, WTH? And yes, I fly with live weather and I realized the wind direction and speed sometimes randomly changes, throwing the plane around. Still, it shouldn’t explain why the AP doesn’t climb or descend when I set a new altitude for it.
Yes it does, as temperature is linked to the physics which apply to the plane, on FL300 it should be around -40°C and not +50 like it is with the broken live weather right now. Flying with a weather preset will fix your problem until live weather is fixed.
OMG, the simulator is very much broken again.
Fuel tank selector won’t work in many aircrafts. AP controls on A320 won’t work. Live weather is dead. G1000 is not working properly, even the working title version downloaded from the market. Many hangars and detailed buildings have this “square shaped” building around them, making they lose their format. Cessna 172 trim doesn’t seem to be working (I didn’t test that, but heard from many). Well, I think Asobo will have a lot of work the next few days.
The performance is very very very much improved though. Congrats on that. I hope they can fix this very very very serious issues soon.
This is interesting, different people use same sim and addon but different problems.
My problem is, with stable A320 release, it CDT soon after start of loading flight.
I swithced to developer version, it loads the flight, but during climb I need to shift to TOGA mode in order engines works at N1 higher than 82. At FL N1 stays for some time at proper rate, which is around 90, than it derate it self again to 80 or 82% and aircraft can’t maintain speed M.78 it drops to M.65 and lowering. Again I need to shift it to TOGA in order to gain speed and not go in to stall.
I dont think anything was solved. I’m flying the a320 fbw, and I’m using rex weather (so no temperature bugs for me), and like other users said, it’s impossible to hold an altitude. The plane pops 100 or 200ft above or below its cruise altitude, I’m my case every time Rex injects it’s weather (so every 10 mn or so). So it makes me think that its not even related to the weird temperature but more about how weather impacts plane physics
This post was never about the weather or holding altitude at CRZ. It was about the bug I described, which got fixed. I don’t know why people divert from the topic in this thread, every issue has it’s own thread. Otherwise things get super confusing and noone can find anything.
Yes it is a nightmare. Reinstalled it but still big probs. Latest problem approach to HKG and nicely alligned, set localiser and all hell breaks loose, climbing into a stall!
