Best MCDU tutorial on KZfaq I found so far! Thank you very much for your passionate and detailed explanations!

This is great. As a relatively new simmer I find your tutorials have really opened up the sim experience up to me and love following them as exercises for me to try and learn them off by heart. Brilliant and much appreciated thanks.

Spent over an hour going through this for a short hop WMKK to WMKN in Malaysia. So clear, and such a great tutorial. Thanks so much!

This is one of those videos you save in a playlist, in case you forget things one day. Much appreciated!

The transparency in your videos are just incredible

Hi Easyjetpilot, this tutorial video is helping me a lot to program the MCDU. I'm keeping this video to learn more and I'm watching it over and over again until I would be able to create a complete flight plan. So, thanks my teacher.

Nice explanation Gav. When you enter the flight plan make sure you DO include adding the arrival STAR and arrival runway from the OFP. Remember, the OFP is your plan on what you expect to do and all the data in the FMGC needs to display similar figures. You want to make a gross error check when the flight plan is in the box so it gives a similar mileage to what’s on the OFP. This way you can be sure the route is more or less correct. This is critical for us as we download the flight plan from datalink 99% of the time so we want to make sure the flight plan that has been downloaded, is the same as the flight plan we’ve been given by ops. Sometimes, flight plans change at the last minute! Having the complete flight plan in also helps when completing the INIT B page. If the complete route is in, when you enter the ZFW/ZFW C/G, the block fuel and trip winds, the TRIP/TIME figures on the left should be very accurate and again correspond with your trip/time figures off the OFP. Again this is a gross error check that the flight plan in the FMGC is correct. Incidentally, the mileage and trip/fuel figures in this example weren’t exactly the same as the OFP. I think that’s just a sim thing that gives a bit of a discrepancy. But inputting the whole route before you do the INIT B page is a good habit to get into. Once you’re airborne, THEN You can amend the arrival if it changes. 👍 Block fuel off the OFP. This is a minimum. If you need to add more fuel because of expected delays, bad weather en-route and at destination or tankering, don’t feel bad by adding to it. And ALWAYS round up! It’s on the conservative side. If block fuel is 8,440 kgs; round it up to a nice 8.5 tonnes. With respects to your take off trim. You really don’t need to calculate anything. Once you’ve loaded the required fuel, look at your CofG on the weight page. It will give you a loaded Mean Area Chord as a percentage (%). This is your take off stabiliser setting that you set after engine start. In this instance it was 26.26% rounded to 26.3%. So, when you’ve started the engines, move the trim wheel so that it’s at 26.3%. It’s not something I ever see you do to be fair. 🙈 😉 Again we don’t use units (up/down) of trim. We could get it wrong or mixed up! You won’t get the percentage wrong as it’ll only be one value. This is another reason why we don’t enter it on the Perf page. 👍

I had fun following this tutorial, and I look forward to your more advanced stuff once I grasp the basics - thanks!

This is the sort of stuff that should be supplied in a tutorial. Thank you for explaining things so transparently.

Best MCDU tutorial on KZfaq I found so far

Best lesson about MCDU tutorial I have seen. Thanks!!

A great tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

Excellent video. A terrific help for novices like me. Very much appreciated.

Awesome, awesome tutorial. As always so informative and such detailed. Thanks for sharing the vast knowledge you got !

Big help! Thank you also for the link to update the aircraft on SimBrief. Nice work.

Very descriptive content, thank you!

Very big respect and a big thanks for you my boi! : )

Thanks for the vid, informative as always. I'm curious how do you get the CG info to display when selecting fuel from the menu, all I see are the numbers, no center of gravity info shows once loaded into the sim, I only get that in the main menu which is a bit of a pain.

Thanks you for this outstanding tutorial! This is exactly what I was looking for!

Excellently delivered and so very useful. Thank you 👍

Excellent, thanks. I'm finding the Ezy Sim brief plan easier to follow. The CG was getting me every time too. More practice needed. But very helpful.

Master class ! Thank you EasyJet !!

Fantastic Video which is very helpful. Thanks a lot for taking your time to explain things so detailed. Stay safe and have a calm weekend. Cheers from Berlin

great tutorial .. always drives me nuts the different weights in simbrief vs the sim.. now I can sort it.. in the old pmdg737 mcdu you could hit the arrow key to re input data rather than having to re type it is that something that needs added or is it diff for the a320?

OMG I been looking for this thank you so much

hey hey awesome vid hope you will go on with that stuff! have only 1 question how do you get that layout from your simbrief pdf mine is always different....

Best one av seen was able to follow it as you spoke well done. just need a weather input one now will check if you did one.

Thank you very much ,, this is the easiest tutorial I have ever seen

That was a beautiful tutorial

Very informative. Thank you for taking the time to explain the process.

Thanks for this tutorial. awesome video. I was wondering what is that software to display the flight plan on the screen at the same time with MCDU while recording?

Excellent presentation - thank you kindly

Great tutorial , thank you very much

Thanks man! Now i know how to use FMC 🥰🥰

Thank you. Very detail!

Outstanding - many, many thanks.

Clearly explained :):)

Really great! Thank you.

This is the best tutorial for this Thankyou so so much

Awesome tutorial. You're the best of the best. Curiosity, where you're from? I'm from Malta. Thanks for the tutorial.

this helped so much , thank you!!

excellent work young fella very happy

Hi. thanks for a good and informative video. I am still wondering though if there is any advantage to using the SimBrief flight plan as opposed the MSFS on board flight planner. What are the advantages?

Great video, thank you im learning for when the Xbox version comes out.

This was new to learn just started learning wish me luck 🙏

Thank you for this video. I’ve noticed that your SimBrief profile has changed. I suppose it was corrected to match the latest MSFS A320 NEO?

Thank you very much for navigraph!!!

Very good tutorial, I learned a couple of new things today having moved over from the pmdg 737 on p3d to mfs2020. Big help, I do have 1 question and it may be a silly one, after inputting the flight plan can we use mfs atc and request ifr following?

Super clear tutorial, thanks man. Also, I believe KGEG is Spokane, which is like... Seattle's evil brother.

You can skip all the scrolling for direct waypoints. In the flight plan just enter the next waypoint in the scratchpad. If you then press a button next to an existing waypoint in the flight plan it will add the one from your scratchpad above that. So enter your waypoint, press the destination button and done. Saves a ton of time and no scrolling required. (Works an the A320NX mod, not sure about the vanilla)

The FlyByWire team will very soon add sim brief plan integration. So it won’t be long until this tutorial will be replaced by just a few MCDU clicks.

Thank you. Very nice video

Wow.. amazing 👏

It's funny it gave you the alternate as KGEG because I just did a flight from KSEA to KGEG. That's from Seattle Int to Spokane Int. Spokane is about 220 miles from Seattle and it's about a 5 hour drive, but a very quick flight.

Thisbis very helpful Thank you

you are the best!

Excellent, thank you very much.

I am getting a waypoint mismatch when entering a waypoint from a SimBrief plan into the MCDU of A320N FBW. Both airacs are up to date. Any help is highly appreciated. And thank you for your entertaining and rich videos that are helping many of us learn this very nice hobby.

Great tutorial on the MCDU. Clear and informative. My FS2020, on the weight & balance just gives me the payload in Pds and Gal. How can I switch to Kg?

sehr gut. Vielen Dank.

Well done. Thanks.

Excellent!

Hey, I don’t know whether you’ve mentioned it, but which OFP Layout are you using for SimBrief? Thank you!

Great videos, your the one that got me flying the 320. I am a rookie, but at least I can take off and land now..lol. I do have a question though, what liveries pack do you use?

How did you get your sim brief page to be organized like that because when I set my flight plan up it was totally different

Thanks for this

hi in the msfs flight plan screen should we select vfr or high altidtude airways because if i load the plan from simbrief all the waypoints are already entered in my fmc.what option should i select vfr or high altitude airways to get just the departure and destination airports on the flight plan screen and then enter the waypoints manually from simbrief

Grate video, help me a lot. Only one question, a can’t find the trip wind on the SimBrief flight plan, can you help me. Thank you

Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I tried today to copy it and it seems that with updates made to MSFS2020 in the months since you prepared this, the MCDU screens have changed. I do not have TRIP WIND appearing on the Fuel Prediction page, and I can't locate it. I've looked around the MCDU but without locating it. As a side comment, when I double click on the ZFW/ZFWCG then the calculations are done by the MCDU and the data is filled in.

Have they updated the way the information is layout in the flight plan? I'm very new to flight sims and would love to learn this, and the way you have yours laid out makes so much sense, however when I generate my own flight plan, it looks different and I cant find the information to enter into the FMC/MCDU?

You can enter your waypoints by clicking directly on KSEA. It save lot of time.

Why on my Simbried report I have very very few waypoints? Sometimes cannot find the proper arrivarl or departure into the MCDU because of that. I only have very few waypoints and usually it shows me "dct" on the closet ones to the airport, difficult then to chose the proper departure way. If I do the same for this flight seems complete enough the OP Route but on other cases I'm missing the most important parts, depature and arrival routes. I'm able to complete the route, end the flight, etc.. but I lose lot of time by findind proper routes at the beginning.. What to do also the some waypoints, stars and router are missing in the game? No need to insert speed or FL on any waypoint? (expecially the departures and the arrival routes)

thanks for the tutorial

Clean and concise! This is the best tutorial on this available 👍

Question: During inputting the flight plan, after selecting your SID, are you able to scroll down to your last waypoint in the F-Plan, select it and select “Airways” and input airways and waypoints on that page instead, rather than doing the scroll down for every waypoint?

Hi, what settings are you running, or do you have a video about that? You appear to have almost the exact same specs as me yet yours looks so much better! This video is excellent as always. Very helpful.

Nice tutorial. When I enter the star in the fmc after ATC clearence and press INSERT the AC starts to rotate 180 degrees. When I do the input before take off it works perfectly. What could be the problem?

Much love ❤ 😍 💖

Hey mate great video, when I do a long flight like a trans Atlantic the waypoints that are in the middle of the flight plan are different to what comes up on navigraph and usually consist of about 6 to 7 numbers. So this means I fly a different route over the Atlantic then navigraph has, do you know why or how to fix that?

Hi, I am lazy and cheat by just loading up the flight plan using the INIT DATA REQ option but I am not sure if that loads everything I need into the MCDU, when i have seen you set up yours it looks a lot more complicated and I think there are fields I am missing out although it does not seem to affect my flight much. for example I have seen you enter trip wind and TROP data, I would like to add that to, if anything just to see if it makes a difference but where do you find that on the Simbrief plan?

Hi EasyJetSimPilot, Informative Video, Thanks for the Details, Have one question , where do i get the Trip Wind information. i dont see it on sim brief.. Cheers

Hi I'm not sure how to implement ATG25R at the end, this is my flight plan route LQSA/11 DCT BOSNA DCT PESAT DCT LANUX DCT HDO DCT ATGUP ATG25R EDDB/25R

Very well done

(TWO THUMBS UP)!!

How do you get that layout on simbrief? My layout doesn’t seem to give me the trip wind or the cruise temperature

Very good tutorial. Coming from Boeings, entering waypoints in the Airbus computer seems a bit long winded. By the way you do know that you can 'pop out' any of your panels in MSFS ? Hold down right Alt and left click on the panel ;) - keep up the good work.

How do you know if you need to insert a via or a transition im so confused when to use them

How did you scroll on the MCDU screen for checking the flightplan? I have a suggestion - there are some softwares available which make your cursor highlighted in the video, so if you could uses it then the viewers will be able to follow your cursor.

Thank you for a great video! Idiot question: where is the setting to change the fuel page from Gallons to Pounds to pounds to litres ?

Thks ! thks ! thks !

IDK if youll see this or if anyone can respond but, Back in the early 2000's there was a route planner that not only planned a route but also included the arrivels and departure waypoints as well as the ability to set altitudes per waypoint then upload it to your FMC. This was a huge help for flying airliners and using autopilot. Does anyone know if this still exists. I used sim brief but from what i can tell it does give your the route but not the arrival or depature waypoints.

Thxx brooo

Are you using ezdock to transition between views?

In my Sim, the CG is not shown on the payload and fuel page when the simulation has already started. It's only shown when opened via the "globe page". Did you use a mod to bring that information up? Thanks for the tutorials!

Where do you find the pax number on this format of the FP? You have shown. On the lido one it shows you but can’t see to find it on this format

Could you do a tutorial on all the different procedures for emergencies just curious about that and perhaps for the radio settings just getting into Airbuses I am a bit of a noob.

Anyone know if the Tritonsim G-450 portover is online somewhere? I only have the 550 and 650.

Good video. Can anyone help I selected my arrival but that star wasn’t there that’s on my flight plan. Is this a known issue or have I done something wrong?

Great Video! What's DECEL? It pops up by itself, and can't be deleted. Is seems causing issues every time flying through DECEL point.

This tutorial is great, I have fs2020 on xbox so if all works the same I will need to do it this way due to no way of importing SimBrief plan file on xbox. I have one question, once flight plan is setup, will ATC give me guidance according to plan such as altitude instructions along my journey, I normally use Ai ATC assist, and set up flight plans via world map and I get atc instruction such as altitude changes along the way. Cheers