Took out the Fenix for a stroll.
The first challenge was deciphering the waypoint codes for the flight plane, a task for ancient Egypt fans who stand before the hieroglyphics wondering what they mean. I wanted to fly the classic 8 just to test if the landing behaviour of the Fenix is as bad as some people have written on the Discord (I personally have never encountered any problems with gusts but yes the Fenix autoland seem to don´t flare anymore but get down with 600-800 feet per minute on the variometer, that´s true).
Looks very promising!
Very good - the curve is not too steep for full flaps and gear out! It looked more aggressive on the ND but in reality it was very smooth and an easy turn.
Now coming in for approach…
A very strong gust kicked out the autopilot that´s why the Fenix needed more cats! CAT3 Dual. But the stabilized approach is only 5 miles away from the airport this landing will fail. Unfortunately it was impossible to create a better flight plan because there were no waypoints 30nm away from the airport to activate some nice STAR, the ND was total empty - not even a VOR absolut nothing. I was too lazy to create a custom waypoint with the heading of the runway in 30 - 40 miles distance and I thought I can make it…
But it just did not descent down to the runway, probably VNAV did not work because of the bad approach angle and the approach page not activated on the MCDU, so nice view from above on the runway