Michael Crichlow Posted March 15 Posted March 15 Hi, I have had a few flights with the A350, 2 of them from KLAX to KATL. On those 2 flights, when I pressed the altitude knob to descend the airplane would not follow the descent profile. I had to deploy the spoilers to get the plane down to profile.
ykeyre Posted March 17 Posted March 17 Which descent mode are you seeing in PFD? managed descent or DCLB ALT?
LineDX Posted March 17 Posted March 17 It's quite normal to deploy the spoilers during descent. Fenix asks for more drag while descending to remain on the v path as well. 1
haza2 Posted March 18 Posted March 18 On 3/15/2025 at 11:54 AM, Michael Crichlow said: Hi, I have had a few flights with the A350, 2 of them from KLAX to KATL. On those 2 flights, when I pressed the altitude knob to descend the airplane would not follow the descent profile. I had to deploy the spoilers to get the plane down to profile. This is normal for aircraft with such efficient and 'slippy' wings. IRL this happens frequently. It is why monitoring is so important.
sunake Posted March 23 Posted March 23 On 3/18/2025 at 2:15 AM, haza2 said: This is normal for aircraft with such efficient and 'slippy' wings. IRL this happens frequently. It is why monitoring is so important. Is it possible you could ask the team to look into this to see if it's needs a little bit of tweaking please? I flew into TXKF today on the POPOP star onto the ILS30 and descending from FL410 I had to ride at least half spoilers all the way down from FL410 to 10,000ft and then again from 10,000ft after it slowed, down to 3000ft. I'm not a real airliner pilot but have been simming airliners for a long time and this to me just seems a little unexpected. Sure spoilers might be needed sometimes but from all the way from cruise to 3000ft is a bit odd. Perhaps the calculated descent path is a little too steep?
sunake Posted March 23 Posted March 23 Or I wonder if it's not taking into account winds when it calculates the TOD. I did have a pretty strong tailwind so maybe that's why the descent angle was too steep and thus the reason why I needed spoilers all the way down
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