Rene Feijen

I dont completely mind not to be able to AUTOLAND, but I DO mind not seeing the GS and LOC diamonds.. without them I cannot fly the ILS of course.

Yup, as always. (Now I did recycle the AP and LAND switches, but not the ILS mode selector. But... that should not be necessary in the first place). Also set on the copilot PFD and not showing the diamonds btw, as I tend to do long before I do that also on the pilot flying side.

1.03 Same here, no digits, but there was a moving blue line on the speed tape. All was good on 1.02. Also on ILS landing I did not see the GS and LOC diamonds on the PFD, although LAND was armed as I could see blue G/S and LOC indications on the PFD and PFD to ILS display set. Autoland did not kick in though, in spite of complete landing config and correct approach speed. That was on EHGG OLWOF1 arrival and then via HECTI ILS RWY23 approach. This also was good on 1.02.

I did one good approach without Navigraph, and then it failed again on the SID. So seems not to depend on that. Will continue testing. Maybe.

The use of Navigraph is interesting here. I will test without it.

Tested that and same experience on the SID. Had to handfly first waypoint but already had second one preselected DCT so then switched to NAV mode and it works fine. As Crabby (?) said, some SIDs you have to fly first a heading by hand/HDG mode if so instructed on the SID. Now I must say, on this SID it is not in the verbal description, on some SID's that is clearly the instruction. So , not sure what real life behaviour should be.

Or are they by definition the speeds depicted with flightlevel in the flightplan pages. And then: why cant I manually change the restriced speeds/altitude? It says in the A310 FMS Pilot's Guide. Or is it only possible in a A310 and not A300?

In PROFILE mode is it shown somewhere what expected (indicated airspeed en vertical speed) speeds are?

Just thinking along. The STAR ends at KERRY. Which approach did you then select? You wanted select ILS RWY01 I guess. But other approaches have you go to the left for example ILS OR LOC Z RWY25L.

If tropopause altitude varies and temperature at that altitude also, it would at least be relevant for the engine settings: temp above the tropopause stays the same for all relevant flying altitudes above the tropopause. Whether it is correctly modeled in the sim/A300 I dont know. It would make no sense if it can be entered in the FMS but not be part of MSFS2020 weather model.

I tried NAV on ADME1M SID Birmingham, but it went straight past BBN31 although it is in runway heading I guess? But maybe I pressed NAV only after passing BBN31, will test tomorrow again. I corrected in HDG mode while setting up DCT to BBE20, and then NAV mode and that went well.

What should it state on a SID so that I know if HDG or NAV mode has to be selected? Only possible to go direct to NAV mode if first instruction/waypoint after leaving the runway is a waypoint and not a heading?

This should be the info, but dont quite know how to interpret.

And that is why a POH or FCOM is necessary.

Just curious: is there somewhere where I can see how many hours I flew the A300? Behind the FO seat it says 1 hour, and 16 events ?) but that must be a particular flight, because I estimate I now have 10 hours or so in the A300.

I did EGCC - EGLL , RWY 05L and LIST2S departure, AP was in NAV mode, but it went straight by the waypoints, just kept going runway heading. Yesterday I had no problems (another route). My 2 Discord flying mates had the same problem. (And we all have proof of purchase btw). Used Avgeek checklist and tutorial flight for startup and programming FMS.

Is the autopilot able to track a VOR course radial?

Ah, that must be it, will check, thanks!!

Hi I sometimes, seeming randomly, after starting up the plane and configuring the FMS can not go to the second INIT page to put in ZFW etc. What am I doing wrong?

Hi I downloaded the optimized low textures via the Inimanager, there are now two separate folders in the community folder, the low texture folder and the original folder. Is that correct? I dont see a difference, nor an fps improvement so far. Or should I copy the low texture folder over the original folder?

My friend tries downloading Simbrief flightplan in the FMS. It is downloaded and visible in the tablet, but importing it via the ACARS - Request Simbrief results in a scratchpad message "error downloading data". He follows exact the same steps I did. I do not have this problem. What could be cause and solution of this problem?

Do you have Simlink installed?

Great to know!

I was looking at the tutorial from Chewie for the XPlane A300/310. The panel where the COM frequencies are tuned is quite different from the MSFS A300. Is that a difference because of older A300 model, or just not implemented in the MSFS version? I see no option to retrieve VATSIM data?

Same here. Also with the default mouse scroll wheel the trim steps are too big to trim nicely. Maybe it can be more fine tuned in SPAD.next?