Finally....A payware plane that works! (ToLiss A319)

[jerdawg]

Guys I have to tell you; I bought the ToLiss A319 over the Black friday Sale and today was the first time I had a chance to really try it out.
I spent the last few weeks in my spare time reading the manuals and setting up my joystick profile, and today I sat down and did the full tutorial flight.

At first I thought something was wrong with the MDCU after the tutorial told me that the ATC decided to change my runway for departure. I went into my departing airport and tried to reset my departure but I couldn't get it to work. I decided to restart the flight from scratch and the second time around it worked (so pilot failure).

I have to tell you this tutorial manual threw in everything but the cabin sink.
I had to Set up an alternate airport complete with sids, and stars, enter wind referances, etc. It was the most complex MDCU input I ever done and I thought no way is this gonna work.

So as your coming into your approach on the original airport; 100 ft from touchdown the tutorial tells me to hit full throttle. Up she goes and into the toga mode, no problem. I'm doing a holding pattern! My first one ever,,,,how exciting. Then the tutorial has me switch over to the alternate airport and climb to 22,000 ft. Boom....she is reacting well , so far everything is going as planned.
As I start my decent and getting ready for my approach phase, the ATC changes the runway.
I have to replug some performance values in the performance page on the MDCU and then reset my Stars.
Again, no problem, plane is making all the right moves. I end up autolanding, setting the reversers and I down the plane safely on the first attempt!

I have never been able to do this on any other payware aircraft that I own.
The tutorial is around 96 pages long and it gives such good information such as what to look for on the Primary flight display, how to change from Nav to HDG mode then Back to Nav mode using an intercept method. When to exactly plan the decent and what you have to put into the MDCU for proper flight predictions. Also it will tell you when to apply flaps and what speed to look for for each flap setting.
Also with the Save and load settings, you can quit whenever you want and come back and not lose anything, just fly from where you left off.

I had alot of fun today and I feel like I accomplished and learned alot (especially programing the MDCU) flying this Tolis A319.
I think this is going to be one of the first Airliners that I finally feel I got my money's worth.

So if by chance your flying your Jardesign A320 and a Frontier Airlines A319 flies up beside you and the pilot starts busting up laughing.....well please except my apologies.

[leafeonrock]

What exactly is an MDCU?

[joku04]

Publicado originalmente por leafeonrock:

What exactly is an MDCU?

the little computer thing on the left of the throttles. In Boeings, the CDU