A320 NEO flight planning realism

[Guymelefs]

@DBCooper8675

Disclaimer right of the top…I’m not a pilot.

I do have a friend that’s an airline pilot on a Dash 8, and I asked the same of him with regards to how much of the route he plans, etc. His exact answer was…none of it. Operations sets up the routes, cost index, etc. and they’re saved in the FMC as saved routes. He just brings up the route in question and at that point he may have to make some adjustments but by and large, everything is programmed into the FMC prior to the flight.

Weight, fuel, SIDS, STARS, etc obviously are the variables that the pilots need to enter themselves.

I am not a pilot, but the issue of flight routes is very limited and more so on the Xbox console since you cannot install the mods like on PC, but it’s a good game and little by little it will get better