Airbus A310-300

First of all, thank you :laughing: !! I actually meant, based on what youā€™ve seen so far, how long does it usually take for a beta to be released? A week, a month? Iā€™ve been using the A310 on XPlane for a long timeā€¦ obviously my hands are sweaty :star_struck:!!

mah, I am many confused, during this days I Flighted with B737 PMDg, A320 FBW, and md80 Leonardo, but the AP didnā€™t disconnect and I had real weather.

Still having ATC audio drop mid flight. Canā€™t recover it. On a 2hr fight this morning from LEMD to LSZH and everything just goes quiet mid flight, and if you donā€™t realise it you lose the IFR flight following.
I honestly donā€™t know if this is A310 specific or SU11 specific. As I have only flown the A310 since SU11 came out!
I really need to go jump back into the 737 to test this ATC drop out. It seems intermittent, as I had a 2hr flight last night with no ATC audio drop.
Itā€™s very frustrating whatever it is. (Iā€™m not using the beta).

One ? as I havenā€™t found a method of doing it but can you do a step through review of the route on the screen at all? (Useful for analysing the STAR/approach). You can do this on the 737 and the A320NX, but I guess itā€™s not possible on the A310 being older? Just wondering if Iā€™m missing something.

Mate I was either, enjoying a BBQ at a beach in NZ and doing a bit of fishin or in Thailand during that one and having a wee laughā€‹:rofl::rofl::rofl: not thinking it would be me sometime in the future :grin:
Here I amā€¦ wonderingā€¦ "was it worth itā€¦ was it all that I dreamt ofšŸ¤” nah mate absolutely loving it here in the land of scot or the scot of landā€¦

Hahaha yeapā€¦ one of my work mates told me about this brew I must try and I hve done it for a msfs session involving the A310 recently (using the key word to keep it on topicā€¦) I now have the T-shirtā€¦ mix it with irn bru and its drinkable with a full scottish breakyā€¦ black pudding, dumplin and haggis :rofl::rofl::rofl: I have been going full outā€¦

Iā€™ve just found what the issue wasā€¦ realised that I hadnā€™t selected the folder/simulator that I haveā€¦
Iā€™ll be flying Caledonian tonightā€¦ What sort of routes did they fly with their A310?

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Loving this wonderful plane on XBOX, thanks to the developers! Question for anyone on XBOX. I have kind of learnt to fly the A310, cold and dark start and flight management by watching the video tutorials but I am having a regular issue which I am trying to figure out and I donā€™t see mentioned. It doesnā€™t seem to happen all the times but often while rolling the aircraft on the runway for take-off it all goes haywire with plane suddenly jolting up and down and sidewaysā€¦sometimes it is still recoverable but hardly realistic! I follow all checklists so I donā€™t think I am messing up some of the controls. All assists are OFF. I use a Hotas One stick to control and usually have the rotary function assigned to the rudder which has never been a problem with other airplanes I use. I tried to assign the rudder elsewhere but still had it happening on a take-off. I wonder if it is an XBOX foible or any other explanation? Another small issue I seem to experience is that when taking-off with FLEX I push the TOGA button and at times the plane for a few seconds slows down for a while rather than accelerating. Usually this is short and then it starts rolling againā€¦

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Let me share a thought with youā€¦ I donā€™t know how many of you have flown the A300/310 on XPlane, but anyone who has can tell you that the level of detail and complexity in these products is outstanding! Probably not comparable with anything else. It was easy to predict that there would be some problems in porting to Flight Simulator because the features that are made available to developers are not the same (and in some things still not at the same level) as XPlane. The competence and professionalism of the developers will fix everything. A separate discussion, unfortunately, is that of the drop in fps. If (for example) the ATC doesnā€™t work, it doesnā€™t work because there is a fault with something specific that needs to be fixed for everyone. The drop in fps doesnā€™t affect everyone, it doesnā€™t have a precise cause and honestly I have a great fear that this problem will fade into the background, not from INI as from Asobo if we think that after 12 days there is still nothing clear in about this problem. But seeing so many people flying and not being able to do it is really stressful and demoralizing. Letā€™s wait. Sorry if I rambled on a bit :blush: ā€¦

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Seems the performance has improved in this update. Getting 47 FPS at FL270. Didnā€™t turn on Rivatuner till after takeoff.

I need to test it in a busy airport at the gate but it seems itā€™s getting close to the mighty PMDG 737 territory (at least for me).

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Too funny. :rofl:

Re A310 / British Caledonian, just found this page listing the short lived aircraft that they owned. Intereesting reading though. Scroll down a bit or search to get to A310 info for the airline-

On Steam itā€™s easy, right click MSFS, Properties, Betas and opt-in.

For OneStore version download and install the Xbox Insider Hub app and you can sigh up to MSFS Beta in there.

myfstrial
It really depends on MS when they are ready to put it out.

BragRaindrop933
Yes you can, switch your ND to PLAN mode and you can cycle through your route by using the UP and DOWN keys on the MCDU.

jal043
Are you holding on brakes at 40% and then pressing the TOGA button?

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Still no sign of that Enhanced 1.1.6 version for me in content manager :frowning:

I do hold brakes or parking brake slowly increase throttle to 40%, release brakes and push TOGAā€¦

Enhanced will be 1.17 when itā€™s pushed and it is only cockpit graphic tweaks and improvements.
All of the core code and EFB updates are in the base version, which you will see in the enhanced version.

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Hmm, Iā€™m only using the default controller on the Xbox and not any controllers.
Iā€™ll do a test in a little bit with default controller.

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Great. Now I need to test it after I finish this flight at a busy airport to see if the fps numbers Iā€™m seeing are for real :+1:t2:.

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Excuse the ignoranceā€¦ But is version 1.1.6 public or just for beta?

I havenā€™t seen any reports of this on XBOX so I wonder if it is the Series S struggling on take-off. Otherwise it is wonderful to fly. Also strange it doesnā€™t happen all the times. I have a feeling that a console restart before each flight might be a way out but I havenā€™t tested that enough to be sure. FYI 2 take offs where this happened were in KLAS ( stock airport ) and LIPX ( Marketplace add-on ). KLAS has always been problematic in the past but LIPX has never given me any trouble with other planes I usually fly ( Cessna 414, Hondajet ) Thanks a lot for your support.

All beta. You need to opt in for it.

:+1: Thank you :smile:

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You need to provide more details as to what the exact issue is. Is the AP able to be turned on and it doesnā€™t follow the programmed flight path?