Very nice job, don't be too hard on yourself - that was far from an absolute disaster. A lovely landing to bring it in and all! I've seen loads of people mistake Q for R in Gatwick, you're definitely not the first. A few small pointers: Track miles are usually given as a reference to the airport. If he wanted you to descend at a certain rate, you'd be told "level by XYZ". If you're unsure of something, ask for clarification, and never read something back if you don't know what it means! A few seconds of clarification is better than a few minutes of resequencing. Let the autobrakes do the work in the rollout, you don't want to burst your tyres! I tend to let them bring me down to 60kts. Last one: make sure you're fully across the stop bars when coming off the runway, if your tail is hanging out you technically aren't "clear" and they aren't allowed to land someone behind. You did very well there, a mistake is an opportunity for learning no matter how big or small so take what you're not happy with from this flight and use them to make the next one better
At least your a captain, I want to become a atc on Vatsim but i'm scared because what If I can't do my job, then nobody can do their job lmaooo. gl earned a sub.
Thanks I have seen this fix and it does work but it happens again either next flight or in like an hours time. Guessing there is no permanent solution?
Hey there. I wanted to say great job for not giving up and posting this video, even with your mistakes. That's how you learn! If you ever wanted to, I'd love to teach you a few things about flying on VATSIM. I have about 3000 hours and have a real-life pilot's license. Let me know, and great job!
My first time on vatsim I quit the game and acted like my game crashed because I lost any idea of what to say back to tower. Your doing a lot better than me lol
Pen and paper write it down! A big help was listening in observer mode to get an idea of what to say to people. Also, another big help was beyondatc, I know it's not perfect, but you get a great idea of putting together your readbacks. Good luck 💪
I can assure you, that that was far from a desaster. You were able to program the MCDU correctly, regarding the approach, intercepting the ILS and flying the plane. So i´ve seen a lot of pilots being unable to do just that, so dont be to hard on yourself. And the decend instruction was not "for 5 trackmiles decend to altitude 3500Feet...." he said "45 Track Miles, decend...." he just told you that on the route ATC has planned to give you there will be 40 Miles of distance to touchdown. This will allow you to judge your decent profile, with a quick calculation in you head: altitude to loose *3 /1000 + margin for wind and speed reduction. So in your case, you´d have to decend from 8000 Feet (actually FL80, but basically the same for that calculation) to basically 100 feet at touchdown, making the calculation: 7900*3/1000=23,7. So with a "standard" 3° decend and no speed reduction, you´d be able to decend these 7900Ft just shy of 24 NM. Let´s add like 15-20% on top to cover for the speed reduction, which would put us somewhere around 30 NM. So you´d be totally fine. If he gave you that instruction at FL150 for example, that would put you on 44,7NM, without taking into account the additional distance for decelerating. Of course you don´t have to do that calculation in your head every time you decend, because the Airbus does it for you. If you look at your instruments at the moment he told you about the 45 trackmiles, (10:20), you can see that you are below the calculated optimum decend profile (the green dot next to your altimeter), and the decend marker (the white downward arrow on the ND is approximately 12 NM ahead. 45 - 12 = 33 NM, so our 30NM might be a bit to optimistic, but also ATC gave you a heading after KEGUN instead of the route in the Flightplan, so you actually covered a little bit more ground than the Aircraft anticipated, which in turn would have placed the marker further downstream. Also you were established on your final approach speed rather early in your approach, meaning you could´ve traded that deceleration for a faster decend early on and slowed down further on the ILS.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write that. It's actually a great help in fully explaining that whole descent step. Like I said in the video, I wasn't going to upload it, but hopefully, others can learn from my mistakes. Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it!
In game, not many, to be honest. GSX - for all ground handling Simbrief Panel - so I can see all simbrief details in game Vpilot - to connect to vatsim IVAO for model matching as this was the easiest to install/update Outside of the game, simtoolkitpro and chartfox.
Worst one yet, I promise the next ones are better!
Very nice job, don't be too hard on yourself - that was far from an absolute disaster. A lovely landing to bring it in and all! I've seen loads of people mistake Q for R in Gatwick, you're definitely not the first. A few small pointers: Track miles are usually given as a reference to the airport. If he wanted you to descend at a certain rate, you'd be told "level by XYZ". If you're unsure of something, ask for clarification, and never read something back if you don't know what it means! A few seconds of clarification is better than a few minutes of resequencing.
Let the autobrakes do the work in the rollout, you don't want to burst your tyres! I tend to let them bring me down to 60kts.
Last one: make sure you're fully across the stop bars when coming off the runway, if your tail is hanging out you technically aren't "clear" and they aren't allowed to land someone behind.
You did very well there, a mistake is an opportunity for learning no matter how big or small so take what you're not happy with from this flight and use them to make the next one better
Thanks for all the tips and kind words appreciate all the help I can get.
Had some great help in the comments on this video I'm glad I posted it.
At least your a captain, I want to become a atc on Vatsim but i'm scared because what If I can't do my job, then nobody can do their job lmaooo. gl earned a sub.
Definitely take that step! You do the training, plus get trained by another atc that has plenty of experience
With the frame gen when this happens go to MSFS settings,disconnect frame gen save/apply then reconnect frame gen save/apply. ;)
Thanks I have seen this fix and it does work but it happens again either next flight or in like an hours time. Guessing there is no permanent solution?
Hey there. I wanted to say great job for not giving up and posting this video, even with your mistakes. That's how you learn!
If you ever wanted to, I'd love to teach you a few things about flying on VATSIM. I have about 3000 hours and have a real-life pilot's license.
Let me know, and great job!
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks so much
Doing great,
My first time on vatsim I quit the game and acted like my game crashed because I lost any idea of what to say back to tower. Your doing a lot better than me lol
Pen and paper write it down! A big help was listening in observer mode to get an idea of what to say to people. Also, another big help was beyondatc, I know it's not perfect, but you get a great idea of putting together your readbacks.
Good luck 💪
I can assure you, that that was far from a desaster. You were able to program the MCDU correctly, regarding the approach, intercepting the ILS and flying the plane. So i´ve seen a lot of pilots being unable to do just that, so dont be to hard on yourself.
And the decend instruction was not "for 5 trackmiles decend to altitude 3500Feet...." he said "45 Track Miles, decend...." he just told you that on the route ATC has planned to give you there will be 40 Miles of distance to touchdown. This will allow you to judge your decent profile, with a quick calculation in you head: altitude to loose *3 /1000 + margin for wind and speed reduction. So in your case, you´d have to decend from 8000 Feet (actually FL80, but basically the same for that calculation) to basically 100 feet at touchdown, making the calculation: 7900*3/1000=23,7. So with a "standard" 3° decend and no speed reduction, you´d be able to decend these 7900Ft just shy of 24 NM. Let´s add like 15-20% on top to cover for the speed reduction, which would put us somewhere around 30 NM. So you´d be totally fine. If he gave you that instruction at FL150 for example, that would put you on 44,7NM, without taking into account the additional distance for decelerating. Of course you don´t have to do that calculation in your head every time you decend, because the Airbus does it for you. If you look at your instruments at the moment he told you about the 45 trackmiles, (10:20), you can see that you are below the calculated optimum decend profile (the green dot next to your altimeter), and the decend marker (the white downward arrow on the ND is approximately 12 NM ahead. 45 - 12 = 33 NM, so our 30NM might be a bit to optimistic, but also ATC gave you a heading after KEGUN instead of the route in the Flightplan, so you actually covered a little bit more ground than the Aircraft anticipated, which in turn would have placed the marker further downstream. Also you were established on your final approach speed rather early in your approach, meaning you could´ve traded that deceleration for a faster decend early on and slowed down further on the ILS.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write that. It's actually a great help in fully explaining that whole descent step.
Like I said in the video, I wasn't going to upload it, but hopefully, others can learn from my mistakes.
Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it!
hey mate, nice vids, Can you share the modlist you use on MFS please?
In game, not many, to be honest.
GSX - for all ground handling
Simbrief Panel - so I can see all simbrief details in game
Vpilot - to connect to vatsim
IVAO for model matching as this was the easiest to install/update
Outside of the game, simtoolkitpro and chartfox.
Oh and I forgot the aircraft, fenix a319
i really dont know how to improve my atc comminication
Practice for me and spending some time in observer mode helped alot.
Take a pen and paper, write everything down, and just read it back. Simple
Hello great video would love to fly with you on vatsim sometime let me know I can send you my discord
I might start doing some live streams when I'm a bit more competent, so keep an eye out for them
@@crispeay no worries mate let me know if you have any problems