It never said it was a good advice. I would avoid doing it myself… But if OP wanted to override everything, then I merely point out how do it at their own risk.
Maybe I said it the wrong way. It just feels like I’m getting too many “expectations” that people expect to fly the Airbus with the same feel and flight controls as a Cessna 152 with manual trimming, and yoke hydraulic direct control.
I mean, if you want to fly an Airliner like an Airbus, even their “manual” flying is an Airbus-style of manual flying and not a cessna-style manual flying. Maybe I incorrectly assumed what OP meant by flying it manually.
You fly the A320 manually like every other aircraft.
The advantage is that you don’t need to trim due to the autotrim function.
I’m flying visual approaches in an A320 basically the same way as in a 152, just at higher speeds.
Btw, if the FD OFF function would be correctly simulated there wouldn’t be an altitude alert with the FD switched off.
I’ve zendesked this already a few times.
The issue is the solution isn’t one which would be applied - even if you CAN silence with the Master Caution. The reason, as @PZL104 stated, is the current implementation of the Aural altitude deviation alert is wrong. it does not sound continuously. So, If the pilot maintains altitude and/or adjusts the altitude knob to match, there is no sound. If they don’t the sound should ONLY sound momentarily - There is no long tone requiring a push of any button to silence. The PFD will tell you what you need to know about your altitude deviation.
Whether or not pushing the button silences the tone or not is a cover-up to the proper operation of the aircraft. That is why he is hearing the tone.
ok, it somehow turned into something of an argue which I didn’t expect
actually mostly I use the AP and A/T to do most flying and that don’t raise those warning tones, just this one is something I get annoyed when I wanna detour and fly ruthlessly as in something I wouldn’t do in real life for some madness enjoyment. in the default aircraft seems if I turn off the AP and A/T buttons it would let me do whatever I want, with only somehing like ground proximity warning, but in the A32NX which resembles the real thing I found it cannot be turned off and no silence button, without knowing what it is (I personally don’t study the FMC control… so that’s something of an arcade playing style with MSFS default planner).
and in the Dev version seems the FD button don’t silence that siren off, I tried that in flight and it still keep beeps. or there’s something in the FMC manual to clear off?
What’s also interesting and maybe even unique to the A320, the altitude alert (wich always comes on on most aircraft) only occurs during manual flying.
With the AP on you don’t get this standard aural alert and that’s correct, IRL you can’t silence it.
Well that’s funny because I’ve applied it in real life plenty. It sounds long enough to be sufficiently annoying that you sometimes use the master to silence it (or select alt higher above and then reselect the bugged alt).
that makes sense as in real life you won’t want some rogue pilot flying in some random who knows what he likes altitude when the flight plan is set up properly, but there should be a way to clear those things just in case of emergency no? I can’t imagine if something goes wrong requiring pilots to manual fly the aircraft and then these distracting sounds keep annoying them
Ok, but still, flying technique. The tone is generated when the pilot, or the aircraft deviates away from the set altitude in the FCU. So ok if you are applying that in real life, it just means you deviate away from your assigned/desired altitudes without telling the aircraft your intentions. So the warning is alerting you of your error.
ok, really learned how that works, better than a weird warning out of nowhere, especially at descend phase where the ATC tells me to descend to say 3000 ft and when I follows it keeps ringing.
so is there any way say if I want to fly full manual, to quickly clear the FMC flight plan so it’s empty and free flying?
It’s really down to the implementation of the system. It’s one of the reasons It’s a double-edge sword having the A320 in MSFS. It’s very different in so many of it’s systems that you really do need to have a decent understanding of how it works, else you’ll find yourself asking “what’s it doing now” quite a bit. And with that understanding, it’s easy to pick out when something isn’t modeled properly.
No, certain procedures will end up with it, for example doing a visual approach starting from eg 3000 feet and you want to leave your altitude at 3000ft for the missed approach - if you disconnect and start to descend then you’ll get the tone as you leave your bugged alt but you aren’t doing anything wrong or mishandling.
that’s an interesting learning curve being a gamer who likes to learn more, mostly something to learn how that works which I will never do in real life, I can only imagine I would need to ever fly a A320 is when something really bad happened taking down both pilots and as a distressed passenger I need to die or try fly manually
I wouldn’t go to that trouble. The easy thing to do is when ATC says descend and maintain 3,000, change your altitude knob on the FCU (autopilot) to match.
The FMC has nothing to do with this. Unfortunately switching off the FD doesn’t remove the modes in MSFS and hence the altitude alert will still occur.
ok, so that’s the bug then and I would just not fly it manually or at least before final approach… or just fly manually when I wanted in external view so that annoying sound would not be heard
