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Quick Airbus FMGC Tutorial By: Steven Wadyamandala

You will see this page when you start open Airbus FMGC

Click the INIT button to start

Now youll see this page. We can start to fill our route planning. Type your origin and destination airports ICAO on the scratchpad with format like seen on figure below

1. Here I will take places from Soekarno Hatta Intl (WIII) and Juanda Intl (WARR) as destination

2. After you write down your origin and destination airport on the scratchpad click here

Ok, now when you see this page, click RETURN

Next is write down your planned Flight Level on the scratchpad

For example: you can just write 310 for 31000 feet of altitude

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Now click the ALIGN IRS Button Insert your Flight level here

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While you wait your IRS Aligning lets go to the next page

next step click NEXT PAGE button and you will see this page

Press ALT to open your FS menu on the top and select Fuel and Payload

From WIII to WARR I only bring 45% of fuel for Left and Right tank and 30% for Center tank..and now you can click ok until you get back to your cockpit.

Next,

Press ZFWCG/ZFW button once and you get your zero fuel weight on your scratchpad

Press twice to enter your ZFW from scratchpad. Do the same thing to fill your Block fuel (Block fuel is estimated fuel you got when you reach your destination)

Okay, next click the F-PLAN Button

This is your Flight Plan Page

Click your origin airport, in this case WIII to determine runway, and SID.

Next, Click on DEPARTURE

After you select SID click INSERT

Im gonna take Runway 07R for takeoff, click here

Scroll down here to find an SID that were gonna use, and Im gonna use PW2C for Departure

Next, by using Route finder we found that route for WIII-WARR is: KASAL G461 BA

Type KASAL on the scratchpad and put it here Choose the closest distance in NM

Okay, here we got

Now, Click KASAL

Put it to VIA/GO TO

Write it down on scratchpad your airways and the end of intersection of the airways

Youll see this page

Scroll down here to the end of the page

Click your destination airport (WARR) to determine your runway for landing

Click on ARRIVAL Im gonna use runway 10 for landing using ILS approach..click here

Since theres no Arrival for runway 10 so we just use I10

And NIMAS for transition and click INSERT

Click Here

Okayyweve already our takeoff runway, SID, Route, STAR and runway for landing at destination..

Now scroll up here

Click CLR button and place it to DISCONTINUITY row

You can see the F-PLAN DISCONTINUITY is gone..

Now Scroll down the page

Do the same thing to erase the DISCONTINUTITY row

Horayy, now we got our Top of Climb, Altitudes, and Top of Descent

Now we go to PERF page to set takeoff speed, takeoff temperature by pressing PERF

Write on scratchpad 1500 and put it here

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After that write this format for trim setting..and put it at FLAPS/THS

Next, write 55 for takeoff temperature and put it to FLEX TO TEMP

Next you have to click twice on these buttons to get your V1, VR, V2

Click twice, and write to scratchpad your Transition Altitude and put it to TRANS ALT

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DONE!

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