The Vital Simulation Airbus MCDU Aid is designed to be an introduction to the Airbus FMGS and MCDU, it will introduce the user to the way in which Airbus A319,A320,A321,A330 and A340 aircraft have their flight plans entered, and navigated.
The Airbus MCDU Aid runs in a near real time manner closely simulating the performance of a real Airbus MCDU. It is designed to introduce the concepts of the Airbus MCDU and allow users to enter flight plans, simulate flying them and modify them on route. It is not a certified training aid, but does have considerable capability of demonstrating the use of the Airbus MCDU found in the Airbus FBW aircraft.
The worlds airports database is supported by a full runway data base allowing accurate runway and SID departures to be entered and viewed.
Arch, Rose and plan view NAV displays, showing all waypoints, VOR, NDB, airports and route information are available.
Useful controls to speed up the flight (Speed x N) , Jump to Top Of Climb (TOC) or Jump to Top Of Descent (TOD) exist.
A Vertical Profile dialog may be used to visualize the vertical profile of the designed route. This can be useful to see the differences step altitudes may make, or what the descent profile may look like.
A full HTML based help system allows the user to gain knowledge of all aspects of the Airbus MCDU, from data entry to setting constant mach segments, to diverting to an alternate airport and more.
An information screen exists to show the position, altitude and speed of the simulated aircraft against the MCDU target altitudes and speeds, as well as useful information about route discontinuity or hold status.
Enter Company routes, create routes, enter SIDs and STARs , direct To
Use Lateral Functions , Vertical Functions, Alternate destination , in flight route modifications
INIT data entry, performance information, fuel predictions, constant Mach settings
Progress pages, report pages, flight plan print pages,
Data pages, position monitoring, Equi -
Easy to use controls, initial position, jumps, Speed x N. Flight plan delete
Ability to simulate the flight of the entered route, view and control the Nav displays
Complete free play Simulated Nav Control Panel, Mav Display and MCDU
The Airbus MCDU Aid is a Microsoft Windows dialog application that requires nothing more than a normal Windows PC or laptop.No need to run any other flight simulation. This is an all in one MCDU simulation. It now incorporates the MCDU Guide
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FUNCTIONAL |
NAV Radios ILS tuning |
Manual and Auto ILS tuning available |
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CRASH PROOFING |
Protection for atof function |
prevents possible program crash when enter values |
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CORRECTION |
Step Descent in cruise |
Now outputs V/S cmd to the A/P |
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CORRECTION |
T/C duplications |
Can only be one T/C in flight plan |
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FUNCTIONAL |
Pre select speeds |
Pre select climb and cruise speeds now functional |
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CORRECTION |
Deg sign used for Flap values |
On Approach page |
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CORRECTION |
Ability to change Descent spd prior to DESCENT |
On Descent page |
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FUNCTIONAL |
Descent Intercept monitoring Added |
Shows on the ND |
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FUNCTIONAL |
Climb / Descent profiles matching the A330- |
Compatible to A330 sim |
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CORRECTION |
Climb / Descent Transition altitude used for altitudes in Flt plan |
Was only the origin transition alt, now both |
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CORRECTION |
T/D waypoint has the target speed for the previous waypoint |
No speed change when T/D is the TO waypoint |
Modification History for Airbus MCDU to v 1.3
Designed for Familiarization of the Airbus MCDU, ND and Nav Control Panel Must not be used for actual aircraft operations
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CORRECTION |
Ensure that all waypoint's offsets are cleared |
Small possibility of some waypoints not clearing their offsets |
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ADMIN |
Organized deliverable to program files/vitalsimulation |
Now able to acquire future updates |
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CORRECTION
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MCDU Up/Down scroll push buttons operate as per Airbus and not standard keyboard |
Up arrow scrolls flight plan down |
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CORRECTION
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Duplicate Names list shows last item
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The very last southern item wasn’t displayed |
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CORRECTION
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Fix database Latitude sorted and corrected |
Some southern latitude fixes had zero Latitude set |
Airbus MCDU to v 1.4
Airbus MCDU to v 1.5
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CORRECTION |
ILS indictor now in magenta |
Was green |
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FUNCTIONAL |
Mag heading input for approach performance page |
On approach page |
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FUNCTIONAL |
Step alt data on Cruise Performance page |
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FUNCTIONAL |
Route data added to plan page |
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