Hi Jan,
I made my first flight now, KDEN to KEGE from could and dark with A320.
What I could observe, I hope it is useful.
- The TOD arrow did not appear during the cruise flight. I selected the FL190 on the AP and the FMGC. I went down to 13,000 and when I was at that altitude, the white TOD indication appeared. I tried to select a lower or higher altitude but not solved.
- Twice the aircraft struggled to stay on track.
The first was in VOR (BJC). The aircraft turned to the right when it was enough to just keep going and then returned to the route. The deviation passed 20º HDG and 30º bank.
The second time was when I started the arrival procedure. The aircraft failed to make the turn and moved too far from the line, deactivating itself the NAV mode of the AP.
- On the FMGC I was unable to choose the landing runway in KEGE, although I was able to select an arrival procedure. I was only able to change runway through the flightplanner.
- I selected FLAPS 3 for landing at the FMGC, but the checklist that appears on the EWD asks for full flaps. (solved, my fault)
- The reverses no longer works at maximum. Even with the reverse lever at minimum or maximum, it is as if it only activated at minimum (not more than 28% N1)
- GPWS is warning 2500' in the climb.
- Sometimes the waypoints names is not appear on the navigation display.
- Sometimes the destination runway appears as the first waypoint in the route. If you delete this, the names of the waypoints will appear again in the ND.
- A320 can no longer taxi in idle. I don't what is correct in real life, but I believe it can move just in idle.
I really liked to be able to start the aircraft from cold and dark. It will be even better when have complete start sounds.
In my opinion, the new flight planner system it's amazing but is still not usual. There are bugs that compromise the flight.
The new start of flight selection system and the A320 cold and dark is very cool, some edges to be corrected like the reverse and the fast start, but nothing that compromises the flight.
I'm writing the obvious, I know, because it's still alpha. I say this because it could be interesting right now to focus on the cold and dark that is often requested by the community and almost complete, and to make it available in a normal way (not alpha) with the regular flightplanner, and the new flight planner and navigation system still in the alpha zone. The community would appreciate it until iPacs works in the new flightplanner and navigation. Just a suggestion...
I liked the new fuselage lighting at night, but the landing lights and lighting of most cities are still sorely missed.
Thank you iPacs for letting us know about the news even in production.