User Manual in P3D

A318/A319/A320/A321
Professional
The A318/A319/A320/A321 In P3D
Vol
1
01-03-29
16 April 2019
THE MULTIPURPOSE COCKPIT PRINTER
All modern airliners have small (often thermal) multipurpose printers. These are used by the crew to print
out ‘notes’ they can easily refer to without the need to go through menus of the MCDU, for example,
the weather on arrival or take-off data. They can also contain information the screw wants to show
maintenance staff. Some prints have automatically triggered, others can be triggered by the crew
A lot of the possible print outs are highly technical (and almost never used) and we decided not to include
them. Some others are simplified to some degree so they can be understood without having to decode
complex abbreviations. But all the prints a normal crew would use on a normal flight are included.
The prints will appear from the printer located on the center console. When something is printed you will
hear the printer make a soft squeaky sound. When you left click on the paper in the printer the paper is
torn of and placed in the window clipboard on the left side of the cockpit. Here it can be read
easily. When you have multiple prints (and you normally will have you can left click the paper and get a
2D representation where you can scroll through all prints.
Please note it is important to note that you will have to select the correct weather source via the
3rd Settings MCDU. (OPTIONS / WEATHER)
• SIM (Default): Weather is read from the sim
itself, but the weather can be inserted by
3rd party weather add-ons. All the standard
limitations apply, so you will have to be
close to the airport to get the weather.
• HOPPIE: The Hoppie network contains
world-wide weather.
• VATSIM: Uses the weather the VATSIM
servers send out.
• IVAO: Uses the weather the IVAO servers
send out.
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