Mac6737

Happy to hear it's not a bug. But saddened that I really don't understand something: You guys tell me to switch from knots to mach, but I thought the mach number is merely the speed in knots, restated as a percentage of the speed of sound. So why should the "overspeed" monitor care whether your speed is stated as knots or mach? Also, you refer to the mach limit of the aircraft, and one of you says the mach limit for the 320 is .78, or about 290 knots. Okay, so then the red lines on the speed tape should also start at 290, no? Finally, are you telling me that the mach limit of the 320 is .78, period? -- meaning a 320 can't safely go faster than 290 knots? Then why are there all those higher numbers on the speed tape? (Okay, the speedometer on my 1960 Austin-Healey 3000 went up to 120 mph, but the car sure wouldn't.) Anyway, I've exceeded 290 knots in the 320 many times without getting an overspeed warning.

Last week, I had to quit an airbus 320 flight, because I couldn't get the overspeed alarm to turn off. (Never had this problem before.) For other reasons I installed the FBW 320 a few days ago. The AP seems less quirky, but last night I got the overspeed warning again. As you see from the screenshot, I was at FL 320, the red stripes on the speed dial start at around 320 kts., while my indicated speed is only about 300. At that altitude, you shouldn't be limited to 320, let alone 300. (BTW, my flaps were all the way up.) I was able to get it to stop by reducing speed to 285, but even so . . . . Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known bug?

In some planes, you hit VS, then "nose up" or "nose down," then click on ALT to level off when you're where you want to be.

Okay. It must be in there somewhere.

I said above I'm using the default. Are you saying the issue I raised is known and is fixed by the add-on? I would like to think the defaults work or will be made to work eventually, if the community identifies bugs.

I guess I'm the 10th case.

Thanks, David, for telling us about the SHIFT + Z mod. Almost a year ago, I started a long thread with my likes and dislikes after half a year of MSFS; among the latter was that you couldn't get the flight parameters in small type at top of the screen like in FSX, P3D. Someone listened, but I didn't get the memo.

I'm using the VOR - VOR flight plan generated at the welcome screen between 2 airports. I'm using the default 320neo, gentle winds. And it's not just a little bit off; left to its own devices, it turns radically away from the vector. I think this is a bug.

Finally, finally, I have learned how to get the 320neo to track a loaded flight plan on autopilot. (This took weeks of occasional effort and half a dozen Youtube videos, until one of them finally informed me that clicking the up arrow on HDG acts to "Engage managed heading" -- and that, in turn, is the equivalent of "NAV" -- a button that does not appear in the 320!) Even so, I am puzzled by this repeating phenomenon: On AP, I'm tracking the vector to the next (distant) waypoint, when suddenly the plane veers off, to right or left. This happens without my touching a thing. The AP is still engaged, but the plane isn't following anything I can perceive; it's just choosing a course of its own. I have learned, though, I can gently "nudge" the yoke back towards the selected course; the AP doesn't disengage, but the plane seems to re-orient itself and picks up the vector again. Then I'm good until it happens again. Has anyone else experienced this? What's going on?

OK, but how do you know what's the "mandatory part"?

This sounds like expert technical advice from a pilot. However, as I said, the only thing amiss on the panel was an oil pressure warning. As to the rest, all my system failure settings (including auto-lean and infinite fuel) are set at "Major Idiot."

The other day I was heading for my first instrument landing at night. Daher, flying the VOR-VOR flight plan from Burbank (KBUR) to Redding (KRDD). Everything going just fine, starting descent from ATC-ordered ALT of 32,000. Then, suddenly, I got an oil pressure warning and started to lose power; speed fell until stall. Today, I checked my Assistance settings: all failures are disabled, unlimited fuel, etc. I have never before had this happen. What's up? Thanks, all Mac6737

My system has been unchanged since MSFS came out in August 2020, but my experience with "upgrades" has been inconsistent and unpredictable. One of them (SU5, I think), rendered my sim unusable until they put out a "hotfix" days later. This last one ("Game of the Year Edition") went smoothly, and the sim seems to be working fine, so far. (Knock on wood.) But you never know. Related Q: Eventually, they will fill up my entire 2T hard drive, right? So is it OK to just delete folders you know you will not use -- Discovery flights, e.g.; many redundant liveries.

Which reminds me: When do you use high level and when do you use low level? What's the cutoff altitude? Or isn't there one?

Never heard of the NXI add-on. I believe Tiger answered the Q. See prior post. Setting VOR to VOR apparently does not set the frequencies. Who knew? Certainly not I! Note: At the Welcome screen, you choose a routing: GPS or VOR. If you choose VOR, who on earth would imagine that you have to set your CDI to GPS!!?? (And not to VOR. Huh?)

Oh for Pete's sake!

More frustration! This time, it's the Daher 930. At welcome screen, I generate a VOR to VOR flight plan between two airports. The plan duly appears in the display, with all intervening waypoints. CDI is set to VOR 1. Take off. Level off. Hold ALT mode. Engage NAV mode. Plane locks on a course utterly unrelated to the flight plan, or even the HDG (which is NOT enabled). What is it following, if anything? Numerous Youtubes and comments in these pages tell me that engaging NAV mode should track the active flight plan. There must be a missing step or procedure. Can anyone tell me what I am not doing right?

Yes. And simple declarative sentences are often confusing.

You seem to say that engaging LOC makes the AP follow a flight plan. No. It does not.

I see this is your first post. Tiger1962, with 3,235 posts (see above in this thread) says, if I understand him, that LOC makes the AP track a flight plan. Not saying you're wrong, just sayin'. But if simply engaging the AP would track a flight plan, I never would have started this thread. Of course, what should happen in MSFS does not always happen.

Fascinating. I am a hobbyist. I run flight simulators for fun and relaxation. I understand one can delve much more deeply into various aspects of aviation, and I may do that some day. Right now, though, all I want to know is: (a) How can you get the AP to track a flight plan generated by the sim on the home page, and (b) what does the "LOC" button do?

Sorry, your question is totally incomprehensible to me. In any case, I am using the stock 320neo that comes with MSFS, plus a SW Airlines livery add-on.

Sorry, but I've been working on this diligently, and have looked at several YouTubes that pretend to explain the AP in the 320. None of them does an adequate job. Can someone refer me to a source that explains the very basics of how this thing works? I find that, once airborne with a flight plan generated at the Welcome screen, my plane insists on heading back where it came from -- but then going into an infinite circular path from which there is no escape. And BTW, what does the "LOC" button do?

1. My wife and I saw zero trash floating in the canals 2. When I go to the Store on this PC, I am already logged in. I see no way to log out, nor can I find anything in Settings that would permit this. There must be a way, but I have no immediate need to employ your fix, since when I went to the store and looked at my account, it said MSFS had been modified and DL was available. I later opened MSFS and it cheerfully did the DL of SU6. Took almost 4 hours, but I was able to open up and fly -- in Venezia, actually. 3. Well, so far it's OK. The sim is where the install placed it: C/: user/app data, etc., etc. To do the updates, I rename my Community, move it to the desktop, and create a new, empty Community folder in MSFS. Then I move the add-ons back over time. We shall see.

Thank you. I haven't had this problem yet, because I'm happy -- just back after a week in Venice and don't want to wreck my mood by trying to update MSFS. But what is "a simple log out of your MS account" Do you mean in the Store? And do you mean reboot the PC? BTW, I did read the link to the forum you included. One user, clearly more computer adept than I, says he spent 12 hours on a tech support call with MS trying to DL an update. Daunting. Discouraging. This is not right.