Fenix A320 - How to 'Butter The Bread' Landing Tutorial & Tips

The Fenix A320 is a beautiful aircraft to fly in MSFS. After enjoying a stunning flight, there is nothing better than nailing the landing and this is easily, the most satisfying (or disheartening) moment of the flight. In this video, we take a look at those last few feet and concentrate on getting that perfect, safe touchdown that you're after. Filled with hints and tips, this tutorial video should assist you in perfecting your Fenix A320 landings.
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[@UisgeBeathaMountain]

Another piece of advice I learned was: When you are on final, your eyes will be looking at the TDZ. When over the threshold / just before the flare, adjust the point where your eyes are looking from the TDZ to the opposite end of the runway (i.e look more 'up!'), and it's easier to judge the relative motion & height.

[@GodfatherCZ1]

Yeah , that is the way i'm doing it :) just simple forget about PAPIs , ILS (which is in MSFS often wrong anyway) and fly pure visually :) . But the false perspective is true devil :D ..i'm forgetting about it and then slam it like Ryanair pilot . 😇🙃 or jumping on rwy like a kangaroo .. i'm totally happy for everything below -500 ft/min, the landing gear can hadle it dont worry guys ☺

[@nikolatr71]

1. stable approach, 2. timely flare, 3. centred well

[@jeluna]

Good landing is: 1. Within the touchdown zone. 2. On the center line. 3. Not floating and firm enough. 4. Good flare and FPM.

[@Flomotion8]

1. Stable Approach 2. On Centerline/Touchdown Zone 3. no float + fpm

[@JacobGagoOfficial]

1. Speed 2. Altitude 3. Knowing TOD

[@jordanweissman9]

1. Safe and stable approach (make sure you’re comfortable with it!!) 2. Good speed and altitude for touchdown (pay attention to papi also) 3. Solid flare and centerline

[@PatrickBijvoet]

This was very usefull thank you so much!

[@captncaps8148]

Thank you, i land often too hard. Plane is floathing. Thanks for the landing technique.

[@mancooncrest835]

To the point very helpful! Thanks a lot!

[@matthiasgsenger8106]

Your Video is just amazing! Pretty easy I manage to have a stabilized approach and no real problems with the centerline, but, the flare and touchdown were … bad. So thank you a lot (!) I’m looking forward to try and practice it tonight! :-)

[@peytoncorrea4975]

Stable approach, flare, energy management

[@jhogoboom]

Great tips!! Definitely will help me. Thanks for doing this!

[@DavidStanko14]

If I've got a strong crosswind or something I like to disconnect early to get a feel of the aircraft

[@very96]

This is all i need!

[@MaxiA320]

Hey, thanks for this nice tutorial!

[@dishantlalwani]

nicely explained

[@helicopterovirtual-msfs6254]

Excelente 👏

[@madsib5187]

The biggest problem I have is to achieve the proper height at the proper time, e.g. to get from FL360 to FL40 to start my approach. I'm usually either too high or too low P.S. Extremely helpful video, BTW, thank you, Gavin!

[@joshuawilkinson7107]

I usually times my FL by 3 and take off a 0 so if you are at FL360 360 x 3 = 1080 take off the 0 = 108 so start descending around 108 NM out. Can descend sooner but usually that is your limit to a steady descent.

[@aviationdude1]

@@joshuawilkinson7107is is what managed altitude is for, just enter flight plan and finish INIT both pages and it automatically calculates TOD and inserts it into your flight plan. Once it is reached, push in the altitude knob and it will follow the calculated path

[@aviacaoesimulacao]

Hi! Great video! The "nose down illusion" is definitely a point to consider in a desktop simulator. Thanks for sharing! I have a question: what replay tool do you use?

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

SkyDolly. Free on Flightsim.to

[@aviacaoesimulacao]

@@Easyjetsimpilot Thank you very much!

[@captsunfish]

Also you can see my lastest video, that was the butter landing fenix a320

[@christianseefu5944]

Butter > Salt > Popcorn

[@ArrRoh]

Great tutorial, thanks mate. Which airport are you flying into in this video? I’d love to try it on my sim at home.

[@FTStratLP]

Yeah, I would also like to know which airport this is.

[@pilotpawanc]

I think i asked this question on the channel a few weeks back. Thanks Gav. Left a like.

[@manusilverliner9399]

Hi Teacher, do you know why some time I've got master alarms activated just after landing ?? even if the landing is OK on the runway ? did I miss something ? Thank you and cheers from Paris

[@az-rule84]

I come from xplane 12. Used to fly toliss. When i fly fenix320, the sensitivity of the control is different in msfs. In msfs is more sensitive.

[@heysiri24]

Awesome video as always! What do you use for the replay?

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

SkyDolly

[@ysharapau]

Great video! Thanks a lot! Would like to ask what is acceptable\good\great VS at the moment of touchdown?

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

0-50 Fps...too smooth, 50 - 200fps...butter 200 - 400fps - perfectly acceptable 400 - 600fps - hard 600+ fps - load 15 report... Gear needs inspection.

[@alexisarteta1409]

Sorry for my ignorance, is fps the same as fpm? Thank you.

[@ysharapau]

@@alexisarteta1409 fps - foot per second. fpm - foot per minute. 1 fps = 60 fpm

[@alexisarteta1409]

@ thank you!

[@rterrero05]

This is such a great video!!! Thank you. Is there a way you can do a tutorial on the canarsie approach at JFK 13L? I’ve been trying to nail it but keep coming either too low or too high unfortunately

[@jonnyjt_st1506]

I have done this on my channel, are you using the RNAV vertical guidance?

[@rterrero05]

@@jonnyjt_st1506 I am, although I thought it was a VOR approach, isn’t it?

[@jonnyjt_st1506]

@@rterrero05 once upon a time yes from Canarsie VOR, but its now more an RNAV approach 2000 at canarsie then hold around 3 degrees from then

[@rterrero05]

@@jonnyjt_st1506 I’ll look into your video also for more visual guidance, thank you so much.

[@rterrero05]

@@jonnyjt_st1506 just watched your video and it makes way more sense now, silly me I was coming in hot just blind lolz. I def need some RNAV tutorial videos, great channel by the way!!

[@JacobGagoOfficial]

That was butter

[@BEAGLEBOSS]

I was trying to use your practise landing video with the Fenix but it keeps loading my plane in a field? Any ideas

[@HakuWtf-u5j]

thanks bro,i started playing flight simulator not a long time ago, but i had problems while landing this fixed my problem becuase i always thought i was nose daving thank you

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

Glad I could help

[@muncher2626]

i use the sidestick for rudder but when ever i land and is off center line i try to reajust while on the ground and the plane veers right or left off the runway and then i am on grass wich takes the real feel of it i can send you a video on discord perhaps

[@mihailm1753]

At what distance from the ground is it recommended to put the engines on idle, to put the gear lever on 0? At 40, 30 or 20?

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

Flare around 30, then engines to idle. But every landing is different.

[@Daveodaddeo101]

Thanks a lot for this... I've been retarding the throttle before I flared! Cheers

[@lionhellll]

A question about auto pilot landing. When landing with auto-pilot, do we have to switch off before the touch or after the touch ?? I personnally cut after landing, but I get an error msg almost everytime ! To hard landing or so what ? What is the good way to land with autopilot ? THX

[@blitz3391]

When you do an autoland, you turn it off once landed and all wheels down on the ground.

[@jakob0984]

The problem with fenix is that the call out 30 when I start flare is to late and I always hit the ground like a rock. When I do a flare after call out 40 the plane is climbing. That's not how the aircraft should behave. With airbus from FBW i don't have those problems.

[@miroslavstaskovan]

I have the some problem. Baro is set correctly rwy elev is OK. I don't know what I'm doing wrong

[@AlexFlies]

Your either going to fast or too slow. And flare at 20 Feet

[@jakob0984]

@@AlexFlies well I always approach with fmc speed +/-5knots depends of the condition so I think is that ok. As I said, I've got only the problem with fenix, because with fbw I don't have a problem with good landings.

[@AlexFlies]

@@jakob0984 Same with me about FBW and Fenix. I have muchhh better landings with FBW but thats also cause I have much more practice and landings with it than fenix. Keep in mind that fenix also is more realistic and harder to control/land. So practice makes perfect, I see myself getting progressively better with landings and recently got -14 FPM.

[@Hk-uw8my]

If the plane always behaves the same , it's a pilot issue. Try to start the flare at 30feet, dont aim for the smoothest touchdown ever

[@1100BFK]

What would be the touchdown rate in G’s as we needs less than 2g’s other wise maintenance 👨‍🔧

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

600fpm is also entering maintenance territory.

[@rofaidarashed2126]

Hi, but i will landing @ centerline , what are the references to be consider them?

[@ifr-ed]

well. 1000fpm are no problem :D Wonder why theres no achievement for it :D

[@willgoold-callanan973]

Hi in the flybywire a320 I do my flight plan in the world map but as soon as I load in it is just a straight like but when I take of it disappear so I don't know where to fo

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

The Flybywire A32NX no longer uses the default msfs flight planner. You have to create your own in the aircraft or import from Simbrief.

[@hergi-tp9ve]

Honestly you should watch AviationSimulation’s landings into Kassel and Tlemcen, those are pure butter

[@AviationSimulation]

This tbh

[@amrozein8683]

Can you provide the video please?

[@alphastar6327]

Hey Gavin, is this tutorial also applicable for the flybywire A32NX (experimental) as well ? Thanks and regards :))

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

Yes. But there is also a similar tutorial available for the A32NX.

[@skibbatrixadona]

How come you say the autotrimming stops at 30 feet? Everyone seems to say 50

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

It freezes it's position at 50ft, but then at 30ft starts to pitch the aircraft down.

[@MatthewKiff]

It's a shame that the Fenix is almost impossible to fly in any kind of crosswind without a set of rudder pedals as the auto-rudder assist can't be turned on. The only reason I still use the FBW

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

A crosswind upto around 15 knots seems fine. Just be sure to decrab before the MLG touches down.

[@MatthewKiff]

@@Easyjetsimpilot thanks for your reply :) I’m not sure how I am meant to decrab without rudder pedals though. When honeycomb Charlie arrives I’ll finally be able to do it

[@chop.stix_]

We got a video on how to butter the runway but not butter the bread! I’m sed :( 🤣

[@danielpena-un8vl]

what do you have your LOD set to??

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

I can't remember off hand, but there is a video on the channel that details my graphics settings.

[@EldarKhaitov]

My mistake was I flared too much. I really thought it is not sufficient

[@Incidental104]

What airport/city is this?

[@Easyjetsimpilot]

Sorry, I honestly can't recall.

[@takeoffnoblue]

this is the RNAV 27 approach in Varna, LBWN (Bulgaria) - just look at the ND it says "LBWN27" in the upper right

[@ThePeperich]

Besides flying, approach, configuration, touchdown jaddi, jaddi jah, there is just one really important thing: Ii everybody can leave the plane “on own feet”, it was a good landing and everything went well.

[@anthonypinnell6172]

Flare decent

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Landing is a million times easier in VR

[@epictetus8028]

Are you a real A320 pilot?

[@ikaenba]

В таких условиях и пёс посадит

[@angelodominique9253]

The fenix doesn't have PBR

[@berkesahin1413]

BUT HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU JAVE LANDED FROM COCKPIT 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 PLS SPMEONE SAY