Overview
Welcome to the A380X Beginner's Guide. Although this guide is tailored towards beginners, each topic below may even serve as reminders of proper procedure at different stages of flight for veteran sim pilots.
Each page was reviewed by an A380 type rated pilot and provides accurate information to aircraft operation.
Disclaimer
This is for simulation purposes only.
The level of detail in this guide is meant to teach an Airbus A380 beginner to conduct a full flight from gate to gate.A beginner is defined as someone familiar with flying a GA aircraft or different types of airliners. Aviation terminology and know-how is a requirement to fly any airliner, even in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
This guide simplifies some procedures to accomodate beginners and the fact that this is a simulation. More advanced sim pilots can use the A380X SOP directly for more in depth procedures.
When this guide refers to ATC it is referring to any Online ATC network but NOT the built-in ATC in the simulator as this is very unrealistic and unreliable. Also using ATC is completely optional and also not recommended for beginners. The guide references ATC just to give additional context to the procedures.
Airline SOP
Please be aware that different airlines may have slightly different procedures at different stages of flight.
The Preflight page contains guides on how to set up relevant data and configurations before starting your flight. We recommend starting there.
This is for simulation purposes only.
| Chapter | Topics |
|---|---|
| 1. | Preflight |
| 2. | Cockpit Preparation |
| 3. | Preparing the FMS |
| 4. | Engine Start and Taxi |
| 5. | Takeoff, Climb, and Cruise |
| 6. | Descent Planning and Descent |
| 7. | Approach and ILS Landing |
| 8. | After Landing and Taxi to Gate |
| 9. | Powering Down |
| Related Topics |
|---|
| Airliner Flying Guide |
| Abbreviations |
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Authors: cdr_maverick, valastiri, popespice
Guide reviewed by A380 Pilots.