The specific Flight Guidance Modes for each of the parameters are Use the scrollwheel on your mouse to change the value for that parameter, you can also dial in a value with the scrollwheel while the parameter is in managed mode, and it won't affect the current flight controls until you engage selected mode. Selected Mode is engaged when the knob is pulled by using the Middle Mouse Button (MMB). The current Thrust, Vertical and Lateral modes are shown across the top line of the Primary Flight Display (PFD) as Flight Mode Annunciators (FMA). Each of the four Flight Guidance parameters (ie: speed, heading, altitude, V/S) can operate in either " selected" or " managed" modes when the autopilot is engaged. This unit is common across all Airbus aircraft built from the A320 onwards. The Flight Control Unit is in the middle of the glareshield, it has controls for the Flight Guidance System to set However the opposite is true for the Flight Control Unit (FCU) on the glareshield the Flight Director, one of the Auto Pilots and Auto Thrust should be illuminated. The Airbus philosophy for the overhead panel is so called "lights out", that is during normal flight nothing should be illuminated on the overhead panel. The MFD and KCCD combination would be one unit in previous Airbus aircraft (ie: A320, A330, A340) and called a Multifunction Control Display Unit (MCDU) Keyboard and Corsor Control Units (KCCD) Keyboard and num-pad for entering FMGS information.Multi-Function Display (MFD) screens - display FMGS information.Messages, Warnings and Checklist display (along with Engine Display above form the "E/W Display").EFIS Panel - include barometric pressure, PFD data display and Nav Display range.Flight Control Unit (FCU) Panel - controls speed, heading, altitude and vertical speed.Internal Lighting switches - includes no smoking, seat belts and storm.External Lighting switches - includes strobe, landing, beacon etc.This will mean the scenery tiles will exist in the directory maintained by terrasync, and the airport models will exist under the $FG_ROOT directory.
If you haven't downloaded the scenery tiles around Sydney Airport, you should start Terrasync and then start FlightGear at YSSY, this will pre-load the scenery tiles for the airport ready for our tutorial flight, leave it running for a minute or two to download as much scenery around the airport as it can.
Visit the wiki page Sydney International Airport and at the end of the article is a link to download models for YSSY, simply unpack either the tbz (for Linux and Mac users) or zip (for Windows users) file under /data/ Under the A380 root (which is under /data/Aircraft/A380) there is a directory called FMS/ this will be initially empty (except for a README file), open the previously downloaded ZIP files, and extract the YSSY.xml and NZAA.xml into the FMS/ directory.įor this tutorial you should also download YSSY terminal models. select "NZAA - Auckland" from the stored airports drop-down list, again click on the folder icon to download and save somewhere you can remember.
save the ZIP file somewhere, we will un-zip it later.select "YSSY - Sydney" from the stored airports drop-down list, then click on the little folder icon for the most recent version in the table.select "Level-D 767" from the available addons drop-down list ( note: this is different than "767PIC").then click on "Download" from the left-hand menu,.click on "SID/STAR" in the top navigation bar,.
One of the most complete free websites is from the front page of the site There are many web sites that have these files available for download, some require a paid subscription and are updated regularly, others provide them for free. The A380 FlightGear model uses the Level-D 767 XML Format files for the Flight Management System.
You would find several tutorial that teach you how to fly or use FlightGear.īefore starting FlightGear you will need to download and install copies of FMS database files for the airports you will fly from and to.