When Your Landing Gear Won't Drop! With a Real Airbus Pilot A32NX/Fenix MSFS

Today we look at a new feature in the FlyByWire A32NX, Gravity Gear Extension! When the normal landing gear lever won't work this is our backup. In this video I'll discuss how it works and when we will use it.
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I am a real world Airbus pilot with thousands of hours flying the real aircraft and thought it would be fun to have a look at the detailed simulations of the 'bus in MSFS and X Plane 11. Hopefully you find this useful and it brings another perspective to your simulation. Any thoughts or comments are welcome!
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0:00 Intro
02:58 Failure Overview
10:40 LGCIU 1+2 Fault/Gear Extension
14:34 Approach
17:00 Landing
18:15 Fenix

[@320SimPilot]

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[@darethezone970]

Hi can u help me plz , i cant control the a/c when having eng failure after v1 cant climb although i set even toga i hope u can help me with that issue plz

[@leloginquitu]

Thanks a lot for showing off that new feature. We believe this is the only physically simulated gear system in a sim. Note that the mechanism is totally able to revert: when you are back at turn 0 shut off valve just opens and doors will close. As a side note, airflow and hydraulics are fully simulated also, and the super slow speed shown on the Fenix is totally overdone.

[@tomstravels520]

Does it also fail to extend with loss of ADR 1+3. Haven’t had time to look

[@leloginquitu]

@@tomstravels520 I did not test this actually :). But the logic of safety valve using discreet outputs of those Adirs is implemented

[@michaelcorcoran7444]

The doors should release and start opening after the second turn, gear itself after the third turn. You can turn the handle counter-clockwise (and this is part of the maintenance procedure to put the aircraft back into normal configuration), but that's probably counter-productive if you're trying to extend it!

[@infinite2246]

Time to sit back, relax and enjoy the video ☕️

[@JYang365]

😅

[@IndianaFless]

Wait, the A32NX has failures now? That's rad.

[@holland7862]

yes! we mostly expose them for the sake of testing our own internal systems, hence the warning up top. however some of them are already pretty well done such as the EFCS ones in the experimental version for the flight computers. you can fail very specific things too, like an individual proximity sensor in a gear assembly. all wip though

[@JamesGoodwin1994]

Thank you for yet another wonderful tutorial! Can never get enough of these! I think I might have to redownload the FBW and have a look at some of the new systems and features! Haven’t flown it for about a year and it seems like it’s come a very long way

[@ElitistMagi]

Thank you so much for doing these videos! entertaining and educational! Have to give it to flybywire for their continued efforts on the a32n and to Fenix for their high fidelity simulation!

[@andreapicci9736]

Thanks, very useful tutorial

[@ashleysuvs5187]

Would you be interested in doing a video about go arounds in the Fenix? Especially ones using autopilot. I did a go around on LOWI 26 RNAV Z and i had MAJOR issues in getting the autopilot to go to the hold correctly, the manuals in the go around flightplan are confusing me :( Also i had issues in getting it to release itself from the hold and start the approach again. Thank you so much for your videos! Your the reason why i bought the Fenix and ive pretty much learned everything in how to fly it from your videos :)

[@EGCC4284]

Gear extension also has a speed limit of M 0.60 so I would say speed has to be below both 250kts and M 0.60

[@andrevdw747]

Great video again and very detailled explanation 👍🏻👏🏻. Just a question at (15.23), the first turn was to isolated the hydraulics and not the wheel door I guess? Thanks again!

[@tomstravels520]

Captain Joe has a really good video about the landing gear gravity extension and how the gear is pushed up by the hydraulics not pulled up as most people think.

[@leloginquitu]

It’s push to retract for main gears but push to extend for nose gear. This is all simulated too in A32nx :)

[@darewell7776]

So should we advise ATC and what would be the correct sentence to say?

[@santiagoluib3]

great video as usual. may i know which version fo the FBW A32NX is this? thanks!

[@leloginquitu]

It’s available in dev and exp

[@kodama_trip]

If this were to happen irl, would you make the passengers aware of it?

[@Flickmasterflex]

How do you confirm all wheels are down and locked without LGCIU as there are no indicators?

[@fanta30]

hello i would like to understand well how to pass from mcdu alternative airport please

[@MrEthanhines]

I had a L/G LGCIU 1 Failure GPWS Off due to not retracting the gear until well into my climb. If it's just one LGCIU I can still land as normal right?

[@jonneexplorer]

Would it be possible to give us a guide on how to handle failures without a QRH, or if there’s a resource that could take the place of a QRH I’d love that too. The lack of it makes me worried about flying with random failures on, on the Fenix, on the Vatsim network.

[@marc-antoinemetivier2854]

I also would very much like to have access to an airline QRH for enhanced realism... But in the meantime, on most of the failures, following the ECAM acitons and monitor the status status page should get you out of trouble till you land of divert.

[@jonneexplorer]

@@marc-antoinemetivier2854 yeah I know you can follow the ECAM messages but there’s more to it usually. I’ve been looking and there’s no real good way to get a QRH easily and semi cheaply…

[@PianoLearnerChannel]

I was surprised not to see the 3 green lights come on. I'd have assumed that they were connected to some kind of independent sensor for each gear sensing that the gear is locked, rather than the lgciu. How else are you to be sure that the gear is actually locked in position once gravity put them down?

[@tomstravels520]

I asked the ToLiss developer about this as their model does still show the lights with faults. They said if the computer has failed but LGCIU 1 is still electrically powered then the lights will come on. The proximity sensors bypasses all the complex computer stuff that may produce the fault

[@leloginquitu]

@@tomstravels520 If you activate lgciu1 power failure you’ll lose the light indicator. Lgciu1 internal error failure will still show the indicator lights. To check gear state you have the ecam wheel page which is the only reliable reference in any doubt.

[@tomstravels520]

@@leloginquitu but if both LGCIU loose power then you have no way of knowing unless you’re willing to do a flyby

[@leloginquitu]

@@tomstravels520 in that case it’s a matter of plan for the worst hope for the best :)

[@callejarvholm]

I’ve noticed that the top of the autopilot panel looks very different in the fenix and the flybywire. Which is more realistic?

[@holland7862]

fenix. our model is based on asobo's 3D mesh which is inaccurate. we plan to redo the entire cockpit some time, but the 380 is priority for 3D modelling right now.

[@fabiobertelli]

@@holland7862 I just wanted to say that flybywire A320 is by far my favorite plane

[@chop.stix_]

Question, would the main landing gear doors not scrape on the runway?

[@tomstravels520]

No unless probably a very heavy landing

[@Wingineer]

Do the MLG doors get damaged as the aircraft settles on to the MLG legs?

[@leloginquitu]

I think the real plane has more margin relative to ground. The A32nx will hopefully have a new accurate 3D model in the future.

[@mr.andrex228]

11:06 or G hyd leak etc..

[@____tyrael_______3437]

22:38 that LGdoors when open looks like it would hit the runway while touching down.. they are so low to the ground? Have you noticed? Ok.. I played the film furhter and you mentioned it ^^ sry

[@budguy21]

in real life they are not that close to the ground

[@yung-nyropnyrop2620]

Have the msfs help you in real life?

[@yung-nyropnyrop2620]

How Long did it take for you to bevise a A320 pilot?

[@GeorgeLumkin]

First..?

[@ShotInTheDark]

Close, but no cigar!

[@hjr2000]

@@ShotInTheDark lol

[@Sasha-kn9um]

This 320 nx not felix. The title it says feilx

[@budguy21]

title says A32NX/Fenix, which means both aircraft. Both are shown in this video.