Landing The FlyByWire A320 For Beginners | MSFS Tutorial

The last step to a flight with the FBW A320 is to come in and land! Find out the minimum information you need to know to land the airplane.
Topics covered: top of descent, approach, arrival, STAR, ILS, speed brakes, auto brakes, reverse thrust, flaps, landing gear
0:00 Intro
0:24 Top Of Descent Calculation
2:06 MCDU Approach Phase
6:51 Flying The Approach
9:07 Final & Landing
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[@hiltsaber]

Your videos are amazing. Truly a beginners delight. You explain everything step by step and clearly. Thanks for what you do

[@renanmonteiroft]

Man, you're simply a legend, thank you so very much for this playlist!

[@FlightSimSchool]

Glad I could help :) Hope you enjoy the FBW

[@michaeldomanski2472]

FANTASTIC video exactly what I was looking for. Clear intelligent speech, professionally done - I learned so much - thank you so much!

[@FlightSimSchool]

Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated

[@adiaprog5787]

Awesome video! This is what truthfully helped me with getting a landing done the way it should be. Earlier I've had different issues including top of decent, but also the low altitude warning, when on final, after doing it as shown here, I've managed to land properly and be happy doing so! Once again, amazing video, keep it up!

[@adilsonoliveira378]

Thank you very much. I am grateful for your time and effort.

[@harlont]

Excellent and helpful video. Thank you. Answered some very specific questions I had.

[@artswri]

Great info Thanks

[@ct9037]

Nice.good video and always useful to see

[@MrCarlnatalizia]

thanks for the hard work to help us

[@rogerferraro6661]

Thanks for that great video, I've been waiting on it for weeks. The only good landing I've done with the A320 was letting the AP take it all the way down. I'd either be too short or way too long trying manually.

[@FlightSimSchool]

I know that feeling roger! It took me about five attempts to get the landing I finally used in this video. Each time I got slightly better and forgot fewer things. But ya, let the AP do most of the work on final and slowly disable it further out each time you land it

[@Styrophone1]

Thanks!

[@odahon]

Thanks for the very helpful videos, i think your explanations are very clear! The video on the MCDU helped me a lot. I am flying the A330-9 neo and I am using Little Nav in conjunction with Simbrief in order to visualise my flight, however when I load the flight plan from Sim Brief into Little Nav it brought up a different flight plan going straight to my arrival runway without being aligned on the path. It went fine on a Nice-Brussels flight plan but the flight plan for the return was not accurate, and I had to do disengage the AP and do a visual approach for landing at 200 knots... What do you recommend to visualise your flight? Also, you don't use the ATC, why? Do you turn it off on purpose?

[@FlightSimSchool]

I don’t use LittleNavMap, most of the time you can get by just putting the Navigation Display into Plan Mode, and walking through your route that way to see all the steps, and just look up the individual charts for the departure, arrival, and approach. As for the ATC, I don’t use it because it breaks the immersion for me, and it’s known to be very buggy.

[@Krektonix]

This is amazing and I just started MSFS. Do you have a video / full tutorial on the sketchpad? You called it I don't know the little computer thing at the bottom by the thrusts. I can't figure that out for the life of me and it ends up making random lines on my map.

[@FlightSimSchool]

Yes I do, here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYLWZGSeq7V8f8k

[@CesarLostaunau]

@FlightSimSchool Another great production. No doubt landing is more challenging. Quick question, where may I find "the chart" you reference at the 1:00 mark? I don't see it in my SimBrief printout. :(

[@FlightSimSchool]

Hi Cesar, there are a bunch of ways to get charts, for US airports (like the one in this video) it’s as easy as googling for “ksan ils 09”, but I also have a video on a couple other options here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5aWiJ2Qg52gdw

[@tchallalemou5307]

Thank you for this. Are you using stable? I suspect so b/c flypad has an approach function. Please lemme know and keep up the awesome vids.

[@FlightSimSchool]

Indeed, in retrospect I could have used it to explain things better.

[@tchallalemou5307]

@@FlightSimSchool Not at all. I was watching your vid for the first time while flying a descent and approach. Good stuff.

[@henryj.8528]

After watching your series more than a dozen times and taking notes, I can now fly the damned thing without breaking it (most of the time). One vexing problem is the ATC. Sometimes it's the complete IFR dialog. Other times it's different. Sometimes it gets out of sync with the actual flight progress. Other times it continues the dialog with the other planes but is silent about mine (waiting for taxi instructions that never come). Yesterday, it approved take off from a runway at Atlanta that does not exist. Also, when asking to decrease altitude from 10K to 8K to begin the arrival procedure, ATC told me to climb to 20K and expect 8K. Something's up with the ATC. I did notice that pausing the flight does throw the ATC script off much of the time. Are ATC glitches in MSFS normal?

[@FlightSimSchool]

My recommendation is to not use the ATC. It’s buggy, and it breaks the immersion of flying more than anything else. There are some products coming soon that look like they might improve it a fair bit, but for now, you’re better off without it. If you want the most realistic ATC experience though, you could look into VATSIM, which has real controllers and is completely free.

[@elapsed_data1713]

For some reason when I tried this I couldn't land in time and had to go around. I did do everything correctly I think. is there a certain chart I should be looking at? I used a chart for jfk and it only showed the final into 4R and not the whole path like the chart in this video. I put the waypoint that showed the final into the runway and I couldnt get to the desired altitude and found myself a couple thousand feet above the proper altitude.

[@FlightSimSchool]

It sounds like the chart you were looking at was the approach chart, which only shows you the last few miles. In the first part of the video I’m following an arrival chart, which gives you directions and altitude restrictions as you get closer to the airport. Typically you’ll want to be at 3-4k ft at the start of the approach. I hope that helps!

[@Loopyllu365]

How do you manage with the inbuilt ATC?

[@FlightSimSchool]

I don’t find the default ATC is worth using, to be honest. So, to answer your question, I don’t :D

[@jamesleicher]

you have any issues with landing gear lately?not deploying or retract

[@FlightSimSchool]

No, but if you’re referring to the inibuilds a310, the gear down lever has three positions: up, down and ‘off’, so when you go to deploy it cycles to the off position first, which does nothing. Otherwise, check your bindings, that’s almost always the culprit. Hope that helps!

[@mackemron_uk5818]

Hi there. wondering if you or any of your subscribers are having the same problem as me. I have the Honeycomb yoke, and the problem is when I use the flybywire A320. At speed i.e. take off and landing it's all over the runway. However when I use the default A320 it seems to be ok. I'm truly baffled by this. Hope someone can advise me. Cheers. Ron.

[@FlightSimSchool]

Hi Ron, that sounds like a binding issue either with the rudder or the tiller, or the option that links the rudder to the nose wheel steering. I'd start by checking what's mapped and experimenting to see if it's one of the bindings causing an issue.

[@mackemron_uk5818]

@@FlightSimSchool Thank you I'll look into that. Cheers. Ron.

[@chrisdavis6956]

what efb app is that on the iPad?

[@FlightSimSchool]

Just the stock one... it's changed a fair bit since this was recorded though.

[@matteo_oz3557]

i can't understand why anytime i try to land with this airplane the nose steer wheel begin to turn lefto or right without my control. Anytime i go out the runway. This is completly unrealistic. I use fenix and nothing that, the PMDG.... the same, this is the only aircraft of my inventory that the nose wheel began uncontrollable when it land. How can i do?

[@FlightSimSchool]

Do you get a warning on the center displays that nosewheel steering is disconnected? It'll be something like N/W STRG

[@lajo122]

The green line on my navigation display showing the flight plan just changes direction randomly after crossing a waypoint and ruins everything

[@FlightSimSchool]

hmmmm, is the flight path a straight line, or does it have round-like curves? if so, it might be because a turn is too tight for the plane to make that turn. What route are you flying?

[@lajo122]

@@FlightSimSchool I was doing dublin to menorca, yea it was like a curve into nothing

[@henryj.8528]

The ATC in MSFS seems screwy. It is out of sync with the SimBrief FP (sending me to waypoints and altitudes not in the FP). It seems like it creates a different FP based on the World Map inputs (and AFAIK you have to put something in there in order to get to the cockpit). In flight, while on the approach at, say, 10K, after requesting, say, 6K, ATC says "climb to FL24 and expect 6,000" which doesn't make sense on the approach. And if ATC is followed, I am consistently way too high to land. Also, it contradicts its own instructions (telling me to climb to 10K then in the next transmission, telling me to "expedite climb to 17,000." So I just ignore the ATC... Any causes/fixes?

[@FlightSimSchool]

I don’t use the built in ATC at all, as you’ve discovered it’s pretty buggy and I find it just gets in the way more than anything.

[@henryj.8528]

@@FlightSimSchool What do you use? Can it be turned off?

[@FlightSimSchool]

You can't completely disable it, but you can mute it if you go into the accessibility options, look for ATC Voices and turn them off. I use VATSIM (which has real controllers) for when I want to go the full simulation route. It can seem intimidating at first but everyone is really friendly so long as you say you're a newbie.

[@henryj.8528]

@@FlightSimSchool I really don't need ATC, so I turned ATC voices off. Thanks to your videos, I can fly from KATL to KBNA from a cold/dark start if I don't have the distraction of trying to follow the screwy ATC commands. MSFS has a bit of a learning curve but actually not that bad. Thanks again.

[@henryj.8528]

At about 8:20 you pressed the Approach button but didn't explain it... What's that button do?

[@FlightSimSchool]

Ooops. The Approach button enables both the Localizer and Glideslope for the approach.

[@henryj.8528]

@@FlightSimSchool That's a big "Ooops"... (Jeff Goldblum in Independence Day)

[@FlightSimSchool]

@@henryj.8528 One of my favorite movies actually :D

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Anyone else find the actual in-game training so lacking? Nothing is in context, it's all set up for you and the instructor is like "We've got Thingmajiger mode enabled" - what does that mean, how do I turn it on and how do I know it's turned on? There isn't even anything for helicopters. Although given every aircraft is so radically different I'm now much more appreciative of the concept of "type rating"...

[@FlightSimSchool]

That’s the thing about flight sim, there’s so much going on that it’s impossible for them to explain everything

[@ninjalightning2631]

NO WAY this beginner level tutorial there are more simple ones then this Extremely confusing

[@FlightSimSchool]

You’re free to use whatever tutorial works best for you. Everyone learns differently.

[@keremthetagger]

very nice video thank you. should we find the charts for arrival airport like in 1:01 for approaching or is there any other ways for calculating altitude. and can u make a video about your all settings.thank u very helpful video,i hope i will descend and ascend very well. i am going to try it with logitech g extreme 3d pro joystick.

[@keremthetagger]

and what should we do if we are not seeing SIDs and STAR after choosing runway

[@FlightSimSchool]

You don’t absolutely need charts but it is better; the Fmc/mcdu also shows you constraints that you need to follow.