Hi All,

First and foremost, I want to congratule the Airbus X team for producing an excellent addon, I'm having a lot of fun flying her! There were a few of things I noticed however...

1) Climb/Decent rates seem slow, have had to manually set the VS on a couple of occasions to get to my ILS intercept altitude.

2) On one of my autoland attempts the Airbus swept from side to side and never caught the ILS Beam, had to land manually, however I tried it again on the return leg and it worked fine! (Different Airport, but that shouldn't cause a problem.) The only thing I did differently is I manually controlled the speed rather than leaving the autopilot to do it for me (i.e. I dialled in the lower speeds) and on the first autoland, I set the QNH of the airfield in the MCDU, but didn't bother in the second, successful, autoland. so Don't know if that had anything to do with it?

3) The landing and taxi lights don't show up! or they are not very bright. (I mean on the model, not from the cockpit, they look great from the cockpit!, although I noticed that the nose wheel light does not turn with the wheel)

4) The cockpit is a bit dark at night, couldn't find a flood light!

Thats about it I think!

All in all, the Airbus is an excellent addon, well worth the money!

Hi All,

First and foremost, I want to congratule the Airbus X team for producing an excellent addon, I'm having a lot of fun flying her! There were a few of things I noticed however...

1) Climb/Decent rates seem slow, have had to manually set the VS on a couple of occasions to get to my ILS intercept altitude.

This was noted in testing. As you have done you are best to use VS and the Speed/Mach in managed mode during climb/descent.

2) On one of my autoland attempts the Airbus swept from side to side and never caught the ILS Beam, had to land manually, however I tried it again on the return leg and it worked fine! (Different Airport, but that shouldn't cause a problem.) The only thing I did differently is I manually controlled the speed rather than leaving the autopilot to do it for me (i.e. I dialled in the lower speeds) and on the first autoland, I set the QNH of the airfield in the MCDU, but didn't bother in the second, successful, autoland. so Don't know if that had anything to do with it?

Sweeping side to side happens if your intercept angle is too large. Try and keep it at 30 degrees max. For autoland especially it is best to input the speed yourself and set it to the Vapp speed shown on the MCDU reduce speed during the approach. Setting or not setting the QNH won't have an effect on your landing.

3) The landing and taxi lights don't show up! or they are not very bright. (I mean on the model, not from the cockpit, they look great from the cockpit!, although I noticed that the nose wheel light does not turn with the wheel)

Yes, this was not in testing. Apparently it is do with how the lights/model are developed and is not a bug.

4) The cockpit is a bit dark at night, couldn't find a flood light!

Check your manual and look around the cockpit, there are 3 knobs that can activate the cockpit lights at night

Thats about it I think!

All in all, the Airbus is an excellent addon, well worth the money!

Thanks Chris! I found the three light knobs already (one on overhead and two on pedestal) but still seems a bit dark!

The 3D lights are dimmed according to outside lightlevel.

In normal daylight the lights won´t light much up in reality either.

As Chris tell max intercept angle for the ILS should be 30°

For the slow climb we are looking into this. It is not uncommon in real life either that the pilots needst o change to a "dumb" mode aka V/S too meet altitude requirements.

Finn

The 3D lights are dimmed according to outside lightlevel.

In normal daylight the lights won´t light much up in reality either.

As Chris tell max intercept angle for the ILS should be 30°

For the slow climb we are looking into this. It is not uncommon in real life either that the pilots needst o change to a "dumb" mode aka V/S too meet altitude requirements.

Finn

Ok, thanks Finn!