General Guidelines

Aerosoft

Airbus

A318/A319/A320/A321

The Airbus A318/A319/A320/A321 In FSX

General guidelines

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01-03-14

21 October 2015

You can enter this in the address bar of the browser on any device that is connected to the same network.

It will open showing a simple information screen. This one is ideal to keep track of your long flights via your

smartphone. Click on MCDU and you can use the left MCDU it as you would in the aircraft.

MCDU COMPANY ROUTES

The MCDU allows you to store flight plans as ‘company routes’. The saving and loading of company routes

is done via the left MCDU. Press the MCDU MENU button to access these options. These company routes

are very useful when an aircraft flies the same route day after day. A company route consists of the

departure and arrival airport plus the routing. It does not contain the runway and SID/STAR because those

can differ (for example because of the wind). The route is made up of waypoints and the airway name

between them: AIRPORT > WAYPOINT > ROUTE > WAYPOINT > ROUTE,…., WAYPOINT > AIRPORT

Now an actual flight starts on a runway, then follows a SID (Standard Instrument Departure) before

following airways to the destination. Close to the destination you follow a STAR (Standard Terminal Arrival

Route) to the runway: RUNWAY > SID > WAYPOINT > ROUTE > WAYPOINT > ROUTE,…., WAYPOINT > STAR

> RUNWAY

The Airbus A318/A319 defaults to the realistic company route format, but if you prefer to save your

company routes with the runways and SID/STAR it will allow you to do so by editing a configuration file.

Look for the FMGS.ini file in the My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\ AerosoftAirbusExtended folder.

You will find:

[CoRte]

FullRoute=0

Default this is [0] indicating it will save realistic company routes. Change it to [1] and it will save the

complete but slightly less realistic flight routes.

PERFORMANCE SHEET PRINTING

There is a small printer on the center console that is used to

print some reports and datasheets. The most important one

is the performance sheet that contains the data needed for

take-off. After you have completed inserting all the data in

the MCDU (so before taxi), press the [AIDS PRINT] button. If

you have a printer connected to your computer it will now

print the performance sheet.