Baltic Aviation Academy: Tutorial of Multi Control Display Unit on Airbus A320

Baltic Aviation Academy (Vilnius, Lithuania) continues series of videos based on viewers' requests. This time Martynas Mazeika, Product Development Manager, will demonstrate the purpose and usage of Multi Control Display Unit on Airbus A320. Enjoy!

[@hexagonalsky]

Anybody else here because of MSFS 2020?

[@Gruxxan]

yep

[@DVineMe]

Watching this video again to familiarize myself with the aircraft again for MSFS, interesting to see the difference between the A320 (and I know there are many variants with different MCDUs and well, lots of differences altogether) and the A320 NEO. But what always makes me smile is when you guys set your departure airport to EBBR, given that I'm from Belgium. Either way, thank you for these wonderful videos!

[@lekoman]

I like Pranas as much as the next guy, but, you guys, be nice to the BAA folks. These videos are awesome... no one else out there makes such detailed walkthroughs. Thanks BAA!

[@gollycondas]

Great Stuff!! I'm just a office chair pilot but enjoy getting these serious lessons here and at PMDG. Thanks, KDM

[@HansRo4ming]

Thanks, this channel is exactly what I need for the Flight Factor A320.

[@CaptainJadenAR]

I also need this for IDG A320 too :)

[@wakatomi6693]

This video really explains many things about the MCDU! Thanks

[@alejandroroldan7321]

EXCELLENT TUTORIAL!! GREAT JOB THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@PROFESSIONAPILOT]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DEAR YOUNG INSTRUCTORS OF "BALTIC AVIATION ACADEMY" FOR SUCH A USEFUL YOUR TEACHING MATERIAL

[@savagecub]

Thank you Mister Checkoff, very informative.

[@GiovanniEmanuelCalvagna]

Hi! Thanks for your video. Now, I can use the Airbus A320's MCDU. Thanks Martynas Mazeika and Baltic Aviation Academy.

[@36mohmoh]

Glad they brung back tutorials instead of just videos of open days and pranas is getting his type to work with air baltic

[@kuldeepgoud]

Going for typerating...your videos are very useful...thank you soo much guys

[@user-fj1el4qk7n]

Thank you very much.. very exciting video, it was very interesting for us who wants to be a pilot or practise every day to fly on computers.. I love jumbo jets, especially Airbus

[@SimDeck]

Brilliant video. Many thanks!

[@Trump145]

I love watching videos like this because I love airplanes

[@richicc]

Please make a tutorial on Controller-pilot data link using DCDU and MCDU! That'd be awesome :D It's a bit of an "advanced" (or unusual) procedure, but quite interesting and useful. Sadly, not much information about it around the web (it's sort of experimental yet). I love your channel. It's by far the best Airliner training channel in KZbin, and you've got some very nice Sims. I won't mind flying one of those ;)

[@ricardoroberto100]

Excellent. This helps a lot. Thank you.

[@naimkeyes6408]

THANKYOU!!! I really appreciate this video..

[@jetcat120]

Great tutorial and thanks for sharing this.

[@danielgriffin7150]

Thanks BAA guys. Wanted to know how it works for ages :-)

[@Atanasovsky]

Great video , continue so .

[@juan.gonzalez]

Really nice tuto, keep them coming for us wannabes! ;)

[@cnabdrinmntiq6933]

Hmm actually tropopause is a layer where temperature remains unchanged and the layer where air gets warmer by increasing altitude is stratosphere. Anyway it was helpful tutorial. Thanx BAA

[@fernandog.ramirez.6917]

Cənab Dərin Məntiq exactly that, although you wanna keep your bird outta the tropopause so your performance doesn’t decrease, the cool thing about flying over it is that the tropopause is the “absolute” ceiling of CB clouds.

[@CaptainJadenAR]

The tropopause is the layer between the troposphere and stratosphere. Right sir?

[@cnabdrinmntiq6933]

@@CaptainJadenAR exactly

[@CaptainJadenAR]

Canab Darin, Thank you, sir :)

[@GonzaloHansen]

Great tutorial

[@Airbus_a320_lovers]

Thanks for the information 👌

[@randallshughart]

Pranas just has a job now, in an Airline. Obviously you guys don´t. Allow the awesome people of BAA keeping going making such instructive videos. Leave Pranas flying his own wings ! (Thats worth saying ^^)

[@rajkumarponnuthurai9696]

Good presentation Thanks 😊

[@ThulfaqarAbdulla]

lovely tut

[@iillyyaa777]

Thank you for an amazing tutorial! And you guys are not bad or something, we are just used to Pranas and how he explains it.. So please if it's possible, bring him back? :D

[@d.jenkins4055]

Good Job Martynas

[@Dima____]

Nice work in FS 2020

[@Cys62]

Very useful for aviation enthusiast....

[@karaoke127]

my last operation with an equal equipment is some 15 years ago, the first already 30 (yes years, A310 the first glass cockpit in airliners) Not much has changed. Only , when I inserted flight plans manually , I crosschecked immediately on the map page display to have it graphically verified. Pity you did not show this after inserting new wypts, just to make it easier to follow up for non professionals. Maybe next time, thanks anyway for the upload of your different A320 tutorials. Good Luck

[@MONRFin]

More, more!! Please!!

[@hascg1]

Excelente gracias

[@etudeando]

amazing how easy he inputs the flex temp it takes a lot of charts and variables to get it right

[@BobbyGeneric145]

Henry Iglesias Generally the performance program will send you the speciffic fflex temp over the ACARS.

[@alexandermardanis8431]

Great :) thanks

[@abbasaviation]

So Nice Thanks

[@andytang217]

Thank a lot~

[@uday7311]

Execellent explanantion :D

[@pfsantos007]

Good video.

[@saecula2391]

thank you very much

[@riderofthemark6661]

Awesome! Thanks for share!

[@AbcDef-ob9fo]

Gorran, Not necessarily, you see there could be an inversion below the Tropopause and BAA have allowed for that - we did not see the met. Also we may also have a temperature deviation at that altitude.

[@ozcantas40]

Good tutorial. Now I wait for the B737. :)

[@AbcDef-ob9fo]

Great video. They are students not examiners.

[@farismufti]

PRANAS WE MISS YOU COME BACK PLEASE!!!!

[@henriquecorsidossantos6570]

Thanks

[@silviugorban]

3:03 The tropo altitude is the altitude of the tropopause, temperature doesn't increase with height in that sector but remains constant -56.5 'C in your case tropo alt of 36090 ft means you are in ISA conditions.

[@appleglory]

+Gorban Silviu yes... I thought he was wrong! Studying met at the moment and was confused.

[@armandorances4638]

Nice learning input for aspiring pilot

[@messoranger9237]

+armando rances Have u learnt how to program the MCDU before?

[@armandorances4638]

+Danny Lim: Not really. I'm just an Aviation fan, reading a lot how aircraft are operated. There's a lot of KZbin tutorial about MCDU programming that I'd watched. Some are complicated as such that pilots inputs specific fixes radials and ranges that they use as visual guide on ND in circling and landing on mountainous airports, specially at poor visibility. There are also simulation flights that covers MCDU procedures of diverting flights to alternate airports.

[@hamsterminator]

I have a quick question- If you want to enter a nav aid en route in the airbus, does it have to be done on the MCDU or is there another place you can set the Nav aids? (i.e. like on the B737)

[@csaba87021]

Thank

[@cherifsid7601]

I like your way of teaching simple serious and clear good luck man

[@redenielm]

Yes Bring Him Back Please

[@gauravsethia252]

Please go ahead with little more detail of mcdu, it was helpful, thank you.

[@MAGApepe]

so if you do not enter a flex temp.. does it default for MCT power?

[@MsCarlos2125]

Good job baby

[@yulianussituru4872]

I agree with your comment.. "Bring back Pranas!!"

[@dasgeld]

TAXI 0.2 is not 20 minutes, it is 200 kgs.

[@elizamuchlisa9101]

taxi use time cycle not weight cycle

[@dasgeld]

No madame, in this Airbus MCDU, the value 0.2 is 200 kilograms, not time.

[@bilgehankucuk385]

You can add them up easily => 0.2+2.4+0.1+0.8+1+0.7=5.2 = block fuel. So yes, it`s 200 kgs.

[@uday7311]

Nyc

[@povilascommertialtv9402]

Bring back Pranas!

[@ajskie]

Using for Jardesign A320

[@Jondatorials550]

Okay okay I know how to use this on the aerosoft aircraft but how do the buttons click? Satisfying click?

[@ozcantas40]

Thanks but I wait for a full flight Cold&Dark to Cold&Dark for example a flight from LFSB to LFMN or LFPO please. Thank you ! :)

[@Marcob1490]

Very nice video, as always, but if I can say something, it's not true that in the tropopause the temperature increases again, it simply remains the same (-56°C) untill reaching the troposphere! Only then it rises again.. :)

[@kreshnik1710]

Yes Marco that is correct i was about to say that . We fist experience the isothermal layer than the inversion .

[@YeshuaAgapao]

They should hire him to give more free flight lessons in full-motion simulators on KZbin.

[@brandonram70]

How do you get the display names for each country for the (to and from countries)

[@FluppiLP]

pretty sure the CI in an Airbus goes from 0-99 and not to 999. I believe it's 999 for Boeing. And in EDDF you would never ever be cleared for the KERAX1M arrival. You will instantly get the KERAX07N or South transition. You don't even fly STARs in EDDF if your flightplan ends at KERAX,PSA, ROLIS or UNOKO. Only the transition. So IRL they never fly TAU transition but otherwise very informative :)

[@peteconrad2077]

I’m sure it goes to 999

[@dirtycasper]

What if the thr red and the eng out are different?

[@markfosseth8047]

THS is inserted according to which criteria ? You pulled it out of the blue 🙂

[@lomberdectv4615]

How can we connect this to system as driver? Help, please

[@alessio272]

In order to attend Baltic Aviation Academy is Lietuviu Kalba a requirement? I know ICAO standards is Anglu Kalba. Aciu in advance. I’m not sneezing just saying thanks.

[@peterbenden2200]

Hallo ,wie kann ich beim A 320 neo meine gespeicherten Flüge benutzen ! Ich habe Xplane 11 auf Mac und der Flieger ist von Jar Design

[@hotelwhiskeymedia67]

+Danny lim I have and it was hard!

[@piyushsingh1985]

excellent video Just a question, Taxi fuel is 0.2t (you said taxi time is 20 minutes), time for ALTN was 0030 (30 minutes) so following the same convention , if it was taxi time of 20 minutes, it should have been written as 0020 and nor 0.2. I suppose 0.2 is taxi fuel in tonnes.

[@socialnetwork5177]

piyush singh yes u r right 0.2 t fuel for taxi not time

[@Hooli630]

C'mon Guys He's not that bad !!!

[@panosrs6660]

nice video. What is the MDA and DH on the approach phase in the MCDU?

[@kreshnik1710]

MDA and DH stand for Minimum Decision Altitude ( MDA ) and Decision Height ( DH ) . MDA is used in non-precision approaches and is an altitude below which you shall not descend further without having the visual contact with the runway . DH is used in precision approaches like ILS approach with both lateral and vertical guidance and is the height at which the pilot decides to either continue for landing or declare a missed approach if no visual contact with the runway is established

[@panosrs6660]

ok, thank you very much!!!

[@fromthegods78]

Niku Sokoli MDA is Minimum Descent Altitude

[@panosrs6660]

thanks!!!

[@salkasalka]

can you do the same for 737?

[@richygambs321]

What is Perf Factor?

[@hanscool26]

you didn't put the sec fplan isn't?

[@finskies1996]

He graduated.

[@hhx1]

I think the same, Pranas has a better accent and explains very well.

[@minimums5831]

anyone know what is the appr vias?

[@MAGApepe]

could you use it like a VFR nav aid and just enter the from and to without all the waypoints and runway info? say toronto to montreal id letters?,,, cyyz to cyul

[@tanseiyang3163]

Can you teach us how to use the MCDU for the Boeing737? Would gladly appreciate it thanks!

[@Bandey747]

It's fmc

[@Petra44YT]

I wonder what happens when you make a typo while entering the destination. Will the auto pilot then take you to the wrong airport?

[@appleglory]

+Petra44YT You would have to re check the 4 digits multiple times, likely that one or both pilots would pick it up, and if its already a pre-planned flight from the company then its even more unlikely.

[@lewisduncan93]

Pranas graduated, he no longer does videos here I believe.

[@elizamuchlisa9101]

mcdu the name for airbus?

[@ctdesing]

Pranas where are you?

[@leethomas123]

PRANAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@emilhallweg7291]

sorry i dont get you ? i need time leaving and landing time to the destination

[@KemiH]

If you fly from Brussels to Fra you can not fly at FL300:))) it is even FL but you must choose the odd one (FL310, FL330 etc.)

[@NabilAviator737]

Easy

[@messoranger9237]

Have anyone learnt how to program the MCDU before?

[@brianbenard2816]

can you explain me well the work of MCDU and does the MCDU access viruses?

[@AlexanderMcAllister]

+Brian Benard I don't know about viruses - think of the MCDU as a high-tech digital calculator which has limited integration into other systems such as the FADEC (engine control computers) and navigational equipment/autopilot. It is possible to 'hack' an aircraft nowadays through the use of ACARS (a system that links the aircraft with the ground for obtaining weather and other operational information), as well as passenger amenities such as USB charging ports and onboard wifi. There have been several claims of people successfully hacking aircraft computers through these pathways. One guy recently hacked his aircraft while onboard as a passenger during the cruise and claimed he obtained full control over the aircraft's engines - scary thought!

[@AlexanderMcAllister]

+Brian Benard I don't know about viruses - think of the MCDU as a high-tech digital calculator which has limited integration into other systems such as the FADEC (engine control computers) and navigational equipment/autopilot. It is possible to 'hack' an aircraft nowadays through the use of ACARS (a system that links the aircraft with the ground for obtaining weather and other operational information), as well as passenger amenities such as USB charging ports and onboard wifi. There have been several claims of people successfully hacking aircraft computers through these pathways. One guy recently hacked his aircraft while onboard as a passenger during the cruise and claimed he obtained full control over the aircraft's engines - scary thought!

[@brianbenard2816]

Alexander McAllister​ thanks bro be blessed

[@SamathPerera]

i want pranas back :'(

[@orejas14]

And where's Pranas ? :/

[@RomanVideos1]

What does ebbr/eddf stand for?

[@Ferreira0504]

RomanVideos1 It’s the ICAO codes for Brussels airport EBBR/Frankfurt airport EDDF.

[@guitarheaven1747]

is there any sort of a Map where I can find these Waypoints like "DENU4H" or "HELE4H"?

[@guitarheaven1747]

and those ones which are only waypoints in the Air, not somewhere near the Airports?

[@huydo7512]

Guitar Heave n www.vroute.net/, or if you fly in the USA, search for flights between the airport you want in flightaware.com, click on the flight you want and they will show the route that aircraft took.

[@michaelhenkens]

Guitar Heave n You can found for europe on www.ead.eurocontrol.int/eadcms/eadsite/index.php.html register free of charge

[@nerd2814]

Those are SIDs/STARs, not waypoints

[@stevea.8636]

Bring Pranas back.