Welcome to the seventh installment of The Workshop – a series dedicated to the latest news and updates regarding FlyByWire’s work on the A32NX and upcoming A380. Our previous episodes can be read here. The Workshop is written directly by the FlyByWire team within the FSNews and FlyByWire partnership.
Features of the week
These new features have been merged into the latest dev version!
- New external APU sounds
- F/O MCDU button
- Flight Model bug fixes
TRK/FPA mode
We have been working on the TRK/FPA mode lately, and we are happy to announce that this functionality is now available in the development version!
Work In Progress
These are the current features to be tested:
- Integration of Working Title flight plan manager
- Custom autopilot
- Custom VNAV
- Electrical system
- Hydraulic system
Autoland
Andreas has also been working on the custom autopilot system during the holidays. Here’s a showcase of a full autoland in a crosswind:
Flight Management
Our team also worked on the flight management subsystem, and here’s some exciting progress:
The new flight management system is a collaboration between Working Title and FlyByWire to bring a completely new system that replaces the vanilla flight plan manager. It eliminates issues like incorrect procedures and ignored STARs when starting a downwind leg.
The new system also supports flight plan discontinuities, as well as allowing us to implement holding patterns in the future, along with other more complex procedures. This work will be part of our completely remade FMGC/Autopilot system.
Our next episode of The Workshop is scheduled to be published on January 15th, 2021
