New Cruise Altitude

[ba747heavy 1]

Last night I was flying and the VATSIM controller gave me a pilot's discretion descent approximately 60 miles from the TOD point the MCDU was giving me. I scrolled the FCU altitude to FL240 and the MCDU popped up with a message "NEW CRUISE ALTITUDE" and the TOD way point was gone. The FMA indicated "ALT" and I believe "SPD" (my memory isn't great, I apologize). I did not push or pull the altitude knob, and the plane stayed in level flight. I fixed this my moving the FCU altitude back to my cruise altitude and pushing the altitude knob, which "reset" my cruise back up to where I was.

[jasperk 0]

Hi ba747heavy,

 

As you might be used to fly aircraft where the autopilot will initiate the descent on it's own,

The Airbus needs manual input to change altitude.

This means you have to dial in the altitude and push the altitude knob after that.

 

Hope this will help you out on the question

[ba747heavy 1]

Thank you for your input, but no, that response is not helpful at all. If you re-read what I posted, you will see all I did was scroll the altitude in the FCU window. I did not click or right-click on the altitude knob. It reset the cruise altitude in the MCDU but did not change altitude (it remained, as I said in the original post, at level flight at the original cruise altitude), which it should have done had I pushed or pulled on the knob.

[Secondator 643]

We will have a look into this. Thanks for reporting.