All About Sharklets: Real Airline Pilot Explains

[@CaptainRexT]

How lucky are we to be in a time where we can fly aircraft of this level of depth and immersion at home - Fenix is among the best of all time. Thanks for the walkthrough, great information as always!

[@320SimPilot]

Agreed, this is a remarkable add on. Thanks for watching!

[@Mikey_BT]

Thankyou for the kind words 320Sim. Appreciate you taking the time to look at the addition. Dave will be especially happy you noticed the strobes!

[@Theonetotheleft]

That livery hurts my eyes. Great video tho!

[@talrent6724]

Shun the non-believer! Shun!

[@umbreonpokemon8190]

its actually looks pretty good and better than he had it on the FBW A32NX to me. Maybe it the raccoon mask. Im a sucker for that

[@johnmacward]

I have to agree, I shun myself. Gaudy is the word. Sorry A320 Sim Pilot, I love you, not your liveries.

[@DaWolf805]

You're correct that sharklets and other winglets have the biggest effect on longer flights. One might wonder, why don't the savings from shorter flights add up to the same thing? The answer is that fuel savings compound. The more fuel you save, the less you have to bring, and the lighter airplane then burns even less fuel. Therefore, the longer the flight, the more the effect of winglets will be felt. This is why some airlines will pay whatever it takes to equip the most advanced winglet on every plane in the fleet, while others will have a mixed fleet or not bother at all. Alaska Airlines is still in the process of eliminating the last of their 737-900s, most of which don't have any winglets at all.

[@captain_mcgee7485]

There are some American Airlines A319s with sharklets in the US. Fenix said “The “sort of” is something I’ll address up front - the A319 Sharklet is proving quite a challenge to get data on given only a handful exist. It won’t make this upcoming release, but we’ll continue working at it.”

[@aerialbugsmasher]

I appreciate their penchant for accuracy but maybe releasing a "dummy" version that doesn't affect the performance and is purely for aesthetics would be a decent compromise while they figure it out.

[@PatAndOrRick]

You're still the master of making even the most niche aviation topics fascinating. Glad you like the resurrected original G-SIMX look for the Fenix. Lots of nostalgia for those covid streams while making it.

[@nickk8762]

Great video. 90,000 subs...almost. Nice one cap!

[@jackfortner8407]

I’ve flown the Sharlet’s a couple of times. I did notice the better fuel economy but they all fly really good. Took a while to warm up to airbus. Fenix is awesome aircraft

[@ryanfleming433]

In my home town we always get American 319s with sharklets Everyone says it’s rare but for me it’s more common than a321

[@FlightSimulator9]

Short topics and great insight, we love them videos

[@dougalmctavish3882]

Many thanks Cpt. Although we now have a number of surpurb airliners in the sim, I still usually find myself back in the Fenix when the novelty of a new addon wears off:-) In fact as I type this I'm inbound to Gatwick from Nice in the BAW 320SL IAE lol

[@marinerhally]

Great video as always 🎉

[@DaraDermody]

I heard in early versions of the sharklets, the strobe lights were actually visible from the cabin and were quite obnoxious to passengers, hence the addition of the black material on the cabin-facing side of the strobe light casing.

[@rogerrees9845]

Great presentation... Thank you for your explanation.... Roger.. Pembrokeshire

[@FalconX88]

love skiathos. Going on vacation there was a treat.

[@SimulationAviator]

As usual an awesome video, thank you! Can I find your systems specs anywhere?

[@mdhazeldine]

Now we have this, other than the engines and interior cabin trim/lighting, what other differences are there between these and the Neos? I'm hoping Fenix will do the Neos next, so we can have the full family (minus the A318, which I'm not that bothered about).

[@BobBob-cu7ne]

Pls do more 320 videos like this!!

[@cjmillsnun]

Go check through his channel. There are dozens of A320 family videos.

[@BobBob-cu7ne]

@ ik ive seen them all but i beg he does more, I love them

[@yunjinbai4640]

There are quite a few of sharklet A319(both neo and ceo) in China mainly for operating between high elevation airports

[@valet2972]

All neos have sharklets

[@yunjinbai4640]

@ ik but only a few A319 neo is in service

[@ede8193]

So i wonder if you can see any change flying with these in the SIm?

[@antoniosimon9412]

319 with sharklets are indeed rare, but not as rare as a 318 with sharklets

[@kenka2510]

Could it be that the slight slope to the outward facing side is to force air coming from under the wing to flow towards the back of the aircraft instead of towards the front?

[@tf51d]

My problem with this release is the wingflex seems way overexaggerated, especially the wing tip version. At times it looks like they flap like a bird!

[@aimbotefly222]

any A380 tutorials in the works?

[@philipkroupoderov9844]

Avianca has some A319s with sharklets

[@rezaomar3397]

so i have a question, if the 380 was quite a new plane at the time, why was that created with wing tip fence instead of sharklets? would they efficiency not be the same on a bigger jet such as the 380?

[@Pilot-2020]

They planned to have sharklets installet on the -NEO version

[@rezaomar3397]

@ ah I see

[@isacjohnson8891]

the a380 was first introduced in 2007, sharklets only came later in 2012, probably why 380 released with the fences

[@DaWolf805]

The size of blended winglet necessary to achieve the same effect would be absolutely colossal on the A380, and so would be very expensive to manufacture. Boeing trialed something similar on the 747 in the early 2000s, but ended up sticking with the shorter, canted winglets of the 747-400 and using raked wingtips for the 747-8. The A380 already is very wide, so couldn't afford any extra wingspan to add those styles of winglet. The wingtip fence was the most they could fit at a reasonable cost.

[@rezaomar3397]

@ I see, yeah that makes sense thanks for the explanation 🙂

[@a5cent]

Damnit Fenix! Okay. I'm buying as soon as the native FS2024 version is released.

[@holobolo1661]

It's a free update for the A320 and A321. It will likely take quite a while for them to be released for FS24.

[@a5cent]

@holobolo1661 Can you point me to where Fenix says this? I don't see it on their website.

[@holobolo1661]

@@a5cent I meant the sharklets are free update for the FS20 version.

[@a5cent]

@@holobolo1661 Got it. Yeah. I don't have the base aircraft so free update does nothing for me yet 😂 Just don't want to spend twice for the same thing on FS2024.

[@a5cent]

@@holobolo1661 Ah. Got it. Yeah. Need the base aircraft first.

[@andybrockbank3027]

If it dosn't help landing technique it's no use to me 😂😂 I'll still float on every landing. Says a lot about my ability but at least I land on the runway and c\an stop before the runway turns to grass.

[@coder236]

i feel like wingflex on this update is worse, not better. aside from that everything else is top notch

[@David-gf1py]

Unless it is a setting or I am doing something wrong, but the only thing I dislike about the fenix is the nose gear how it does not steer left or right. Like no actual display of the tires steering at all but the plane does still turn left or right. My pmdg, tfdi md-11 and fbw airplanes steer just fine. Wish they would fix that

[@RideWithMe80]

In the sim with unlimited fuel, sharklet doesn't really matter that much. I think visually it matters in msfs. Unless the wing tip vortex is actually making physical impact to other planes in the sim.

[@blackieblong8334]

Face reveal wen. You sound cuuuute.

[@NOBLEMAK]

Sharkelts? 🤔🤔

[@Duvstep910]

because they kinda look like a shark's dorsal fin

[@NOBLEMAK]

@@Duvstep910 Yes, I know. The title was spelt "Sharkelts" and NOT Sharklets. He's now fixed it.