FSLabs A320 Short Tutorial: Holding Pattern

[@g7usl]

Hi again, Blacky. Just had a refresher here. I just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed ALL your FSL video's and I'll miss your friendly voice now you have departed. Take care my friend. (Dave Taylor)

[@koloinflight3799]

Immer wieder erfrischend so eine Auffrischung - many thanks for refreshing..

[@Blackbox711]

Gerne 👍🏼

[@joaogalvani4678]

Awesome information, thank you for sharing! Don't forget to mention that when flying above FL 140 we can expect one and a half minutes on the outbound leg and a standard holding pattern is always flown with right-hand turns! In the real aircraft if you press the "imm exit" prompt the aircraft will turn immediately to the holding fix (nepal) and exit the holding pattern. Cheers and happy landings!

[@joaogalvani4678]

At or below FL 140 we can expect 1 minute for the outbound leg!

[@Blackbox711]

All correct. However the FSlabs doesn’t do all of those things yet. Please always remember that I am not a real world instructional channel. Everything shown here is especially for the FSLabs. Thank you for your feedback 👍🏼

[@joaogalvani4678]

Thank you for sharing this high quality content! Looking forward to your next video! Happy landings!

[@uranusgodoy8694]

Thank you very much Blackbox. I'm back with Airbus sim after one year with the competitor. Nice memory refresh.

[@g7usl]

Once again Blacky. Thank you so very much.

[@AviationChannel27]

Radial 029 inbound would be on the other side. Inbound heading 209 outound heading 029. Good videofurthermore!

[@markusthl]

I was just about to comment that! Shame that he didn't see your comment or corrected it.

[@reticentsimmer]

Thank you for the tutorial. Is there a way to create a hold without any waypoint or Navaid? Yesterday, I was flying on Vatsim and the controller instructed me to "hold at current position". I didn't know how to do that so I made a hold in the MCDU at the nearest waypoint/fix.

[@Rhinozherous]

Hello! Can you do a tutorial on NADP 1+2 procedures? Especially for the A320? Thank you!

[@666Satoshi94]

Lieber Blackbox, besten Dank für die tollen Videos! Ich hätte mal eine Frage an Dich. Was genau beschreibt die "gekästelte" FINAL ALTITUDE auf den Lido Karten? Oft ist die gegeben obwohl dort kein OM ist.. Ich nehme an es ist in jedem Fall ein hard step...?! Vielen Dank und weiterhin viel Erfolg mit deinem Kanal.

[@airflo_muc]

Big Joe das ist dann eine sogenannte Check Altitude, bei der die Distanz zur Schwelle überprüft wird. Da auf vielen Flugplätzen keine Marker mehr verbaut sind, ist das der Check um zu überprüfen ob man auf dem richtigen Gleitweg ist.

[@666Satoshi94]

@@airflo_muc Danke Dir. Das war mir bewusst. Nur worin unterscheidet sie sich zu den anderen Checkaltitudes? Wir haben ja die normale Tabelle mit den Höhen schon.

[@airflo_muc]

Der Unterschied ist, dass die CHECK altitude auch wirklich gecheckt werden muss. Die anderen Höhen sind lediglich eine Referenz, beispielsweise beim Localizer Approach. Meine Company schreibt für den NPA vor dass wir bei der check altitude nicht zu tief sein dürfen, sonst go around. Ob das allerdings auch gesetzlich so vorgeschrieben ist kann ich nicht sagen.

[@666Satoshi94]

@@airflo_muc OK. Super. Got It. Danke Dir für die gute Erklärung. Ich bin neu im Airbus Business und das kannte ich von Jeppesen Charts aus der Schule nicht ;) Schönen Abend!

[@Blackbox711]

Danke an Airflo, der alles genau richtig beantwortet hat.

[@Aviation10YT]

My FSLabs A320 always overshoots the holds, when I check on project fly it looks like a triangle with curved edges. Any help?

[@uranusgodoy8694]

Hi Blackbox. How to program inbound track to a waypoint. I need that to program final leg of VOR tear drop approaches that are not available in database simulator. Many thank in advance.

[@g7usl]

Wow, thanks BB

[@Iamaware111]

Please correct me if I’m wrong, the clearance should be ‘hold Nepal, inbound radial 209, right turn’. Right?

[@Blackbox711]

Sounds correct ✅

[@prasanthtadiparthy4896]

105 Likes 0 Dislikes Excellent Video again BB😃

[@Blackbox711]

Thank you very much

[@MultiWizard13]

Great video! Thanks a lot for making it!

[@edanthonysomera1491]

Hi Blackbox.... could you do a video please how to do a fully managed approach for NPA using RNAV (Enroute and Approach) and for either a VOR or a LOC approach. Thanks. I'm about to do my type rating in the A320 and your videos have been very helpful. Cheers - Ed

[@Blackbox711]

I already published several videos on those topics

[@1977aky]

Hi, I have a question! Is it a320 fbw or fenix? Or, is it a320 asobo or latinvfr? Thanks

[@Blackbox711]

That is Prepar3d with the FSLabs

[@1977aky]

@@Blackbox711 thanks 🙏

Hey BB ! quick question, when descending: why do we often see the pilot use a specific descent rate, like 2000 or 3000 fpm, instead of DES or OP DES ? Since all altitude constraints are already entered into the FMGS, what's the point of setting a specific number on the FCU ?

[@Blackbox711]

Good question. Unless ATC gives the pilots a certain descent rate, the best way would be to just do a managed descent. I have flown the B747 and 737 before and back then the VNAV mode was not very good and so I also got used to select V/S mode instead of the VNAV function. The A320 FMGS is better compared to the older Boeing FMS, but that took a little while to accept for me.

@@Blackbox711 thank you so much BB !

[@ehsan83]

very informative thank you

[@sonnguyen6417]

is the mcdu capable of doing the hold or orbit at PPos? in case we got radar vector.

[@Blackbox711]

I haven’t tried it for a while. But iirc it does do it.

[@sanoz4172]

But this was when ATC has given you already a inbound Heading. What should i put into the Inbound course, when no ATC is online? I would first of all put in either the HDG you are flying or one of the HDG's given in charts. Which then makes problems because it does not do the Holding according to chart. Even if you say right turn and the charts say right holdings. It doesn't do the same like in the chart. Can anyone help me that is always frustrating me. Maybe thats because i am using Aerosoft A320

[@Blackbox711]

Hi. I am not using the Aerosoft A320. However maybe it is also possible there to alter the inbound track and turn direction in the holding menu?

[@hrljr76]

Awesome, thanks.

[@sinicodaniel]

Grazie and greetings from Italy!!

[@aaalm8724]

*Nice work again.. greeting from doha✌*

[@FBWFTW]

Every time I’ve tried a hold in the FSLabs-it’s done a mode reversion on me to HDG-can’t figure out why. Would you think it’s because of speed?

[@nik.dyankee]

I had the same issue and I read in the fslabs forum that it is a bug. But they can't say when it will be fixed.

[@robertoverat4887]

Hi Guys did you solve this issue? (Mode reversion)

[@jamesgoggi4089]

Blackbox, I see you have a RTX 2080ti. i think it's absurd to spend around € 1300 for it! Did you spend that much or you found it cheaper somewhere?

[@Blackbox711]

Hi. No, if you already own a 1080Ti for example, then the upgrade is in no ways justied. The performance gain is absolutely minimal in that case. I bought a complete new PC and hence upgraded for future use.

[@Swissdani]

Excellent, thank you