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I don´t have the FF320, but what I have seen in the videos is absolutely amazing. I fly the A320 family in real life (for 5 years now) and I haven´t seen anything "wrong" in those videos. I can´t comment on the flight-model, but it is certainly a day-one-buy for me! Thanks for the kind words about our 737 - I can assure you that work is ongoing. Just yesterday we have fixed a bug about the pressurization - now it won´t be possible to pressurize the aircraft if any of the cargo doors is open. And of course - if a cargo door pops open in flight (failure simulation some day...) -> rapid decompression. Also fixed the cargo door compartment only being lit if the ground service bus is carrying power... Cheers, Jan

I have both the IXEG and FFF320 and they are my top two payware aircraft in X-Plane. I dare not compare them because they are two different beasts entirely in orverall feel and flight dynamics. The FFA320 feels new and fairly quiet and the IXEG squeaks and groans like an old classic bird and I love that. Both are very well done. Keep up the great work IXEG team.

Just wanted to share my flight on Pilotedge with this classic beauty. No matter what other airline I fly in the sim this is still my favorite go to airplane. It’s always reliable and fun to fly. Thank you guys for developing this bird. This is the full flight from KLAS to KSLC. Enjoy

Not much to add to mmerelles reply, spot on. One thing to note - some autopilot modes are "combined" modes - i.e. they make the autothrottle "do" something. For example, if you press FL CHG, it "kicks" the autothrottle into either going "full power" (N1) to climb, or "idle power" (RETARD then ARM) to sink. VNAV works the same way, if you do a VNAV PTH descent, initially the "combined" mode will be like a FL CHG descent and the autothrottle will always "try" to go to idle (RETARD) and once it has done that (can´t move down for a few seconds) it will go to "ARM", but be essentially dormant. In the real plane you can hold the thrust levers during their "RETARD" motion - tricking the A/T to "believe" that it is already at idle power. Cheers, Jan

Anytime during flight the throttles go to IDLE and landing gear is not down, the aircraft will warn you just to make sure that is what you want. It is normal to see the 3 red lights kicking in several times during descend/approach were throttles may go to idle by the pilot or a/t for speed management. Anytime A/T goes into THR_HOLD/ARM mode this means A/T is ON but the pilot can move the levers for adjusting thrust/pitch if required. When you see ARM mode during descend, this means throttles were set to IDLE for speed managment, A/T will not kick in unless speed drops 10 knots below target speed. So, it is normal feeling A/T "dormant" while speed is up to 10 kts below target speed or anything above target speed.

Terrain radar is based on a database, the aircraft will display the terrain around you covering the selected display range you selected on the EFIS (pedestal) and also show min & max elevation within the covered area for your reference, they are also color coded, so when you are above max elevation numbers looks green, but if you are flying below mountain level you will see max in red so you know being at risk or no by the surrounding area. Weather is based on echoes/blips. The radar antenna emits a pulse that cover +/-3 degree above/below the antenna level. So if you turn the weather radar to ON when aligned for takeoff you will see everything RED because you are getting echoes from the ground. For TO you need to set the TILT to +3 (so you cover from 0 to +6 degree). Use the knob, actual tilt setting is shown on the top right corner of the display The Radar system engages by the switch just right side of the Capt's FMC labeled WX ON/OFF. There is also a tilt knob just there for weather. To display terrain mode push TERRAIN button just below the FMC, you can adjust brighthness using the knob on the EFIS (pedestal) To display weather mode push WXR button on the EFIS (pedestal) note: if you have both modes engaged at the same time, TERRAIN takes precedence over the display. There is a very nice one here made by IXEG. note: the EPGWS system was improved during update cycles to have even more modes as per the real thing. You may also be interested on this

Thanks gentlemen. After almost 10 years in PMDG, I see how much different plane can be. I haven't seen that simulation before.

Well, you didn't doubt, you jumped directly to a bunch of undocumented conclusions based on something we do not even use! Your PlaneMaker understanding also appears low. Your conclusion was it is "flyable" but needed your "corrections". Sorry to jump on you like that but we take our engine and flight model very - VERY - seriously and we have now spent 8 years (!) refining it, still are, and are very proud of it. (Also I said "possibly", unlike you I did not conclude it was the best...) The hardest part of making an accurate engine thrust model is getting the detailed information you need on the specific engine in question - and understand what you read! It took me 15 years to finally get this. (Austin after 25 years in the business still has not got this good information...) . Detailed engine data is highly proprietary information that you will not find laying around on the internet or in books. You need engineering manuals, engine maintenance data, FDR data, empiric data etc If you want a really accurate thrust model you need detailed information on all altitudes, temperatures, mach, N1 etc. And we do... So feel free to question the flight/engine model, but we expect any claims/conclusions to be well documented and not just an "opinion". Off course in new XP versions things get broken, so if something "changes" from what it used to be we would off course like to know about it.