Aerofly Global for mobile MCDU e Simbrief

1st Official Post

    hello everyone. I am new to the forum and to using the Aerofly global simulator for Android. I have some questions because I am a beginner. I am reading the tutorials for Airbus A320 to learn how to use it with the engines off. I was wondering if it makes sense to program the MCDU even if you indicate departure and arrival in the navigation menu? I can think that this simulator is similar to Microsoft Flight Simulator regarding the MCDU? where can I find the weight and speed information for the Airbus because I am an ignoramus and I struggle? can I program everything from the Simbrief site and then bring it back to the MCDU? sorry for the questions but I want to understand. Thanks everyone.

    Hey mate welcome to the game then !

    1) Well, programming the MCDU is essential to your flight because you need to enter the ZFW, the actual fuel, flight number, cost index... But for departures and arrivals there is no need if you already did that before beggining the flight(except for a runway change in flight).

    2) The MCDU in Aerofly and MFS are quite similar altough of course in Aerofly there's less details. But you can find out and make your opinion...

    3) You can find the weight in "INIT then Next Page". As for the speed information, select "F-PLN" and every speed will be shown for each waypoint.

    4) Personnaly yes I program everything on Simbrief, same as you, but you can't load it into the game, you'll have to enter everything manually.


    I hope I've answered correctly to your questions, if you have more, I'd be happy to answer them.

    • Official Post

    You can use the Aerofly FS navigation menu and the MCDU in the virtual cockpit to set up the flight plan. You can use one or the other, or switch between them as you wish.

    As for the initialization and performance values there is a handy cheat you can use:
    1) Make sure the scratchpad is empty
    2) double-click the empty field that you want to fill in.

    So for example, on the T.O PERF page you can just double click the V1 speed and it will automatically insert the correct value for you. This works on all our Airbus and Boeing aircraft and a few others. That way you don't need any third party app to use Aerofly. If you want to simulate it correctly then you'll have to place the aircraft on the runway, ready for departure, write down all the data. Then select cold and dark as usual and fill them in by hand. Perhaps in the future we can offer the correct value in form of a EFB page in the virtual cockpit. Then you could manually insert the values looking a the simulated operational flight plan, all inside the sim, no third party software needed..

    Regards,

    Jan

    I meant and wanted to understand if these data to be entered in the MCDU: ZFW, the actual fuel, the flight number, the cost index if they are available in SiemBrief when you make a flight plan or somewhere else? I know that Jet-pack answered me. I would like to know where this data is obtained.

    Quote from Paolo85_pilot

    I meant and wanted to understand if these data to be entered in the MCDU: ZFW, the actual fuel, the flight number, the cost index if they are available in SiemBrief when you make a flight plan or somewhere else? I know that Jet-pack answered me. I would like to know where this data is obtained.

    You got it on Simbrief. But you enter all of that manually in the game, one by one.