Update of the A320 Family

[Berkut]

I would like to ask something.

As all of you know,the A320 Family is completely neglected here in FG,except for a lot of liveries made for it. FDM,autopilot,systems..pretty much everything is still almost useless . On the other side,we have Neo which is fantastic...

So,the question is...can we please properly update and modernize the Airbus A320 Family? And also,to add the ''SL'' version.

My idea is to keep the 3D models,ok most of them cause the windows and cockpit should be fixed.
To change: FDM,AP,FMC.

I know that all of you have some other stuff to do ,but let's at least make a plan what and how to do. Can we use anything from the Neo?

Regards

[N3266G]

sounds like a good idea, you have my support for what little it is worth seeing as how all i do is fly.

[Octal450]

Where have all the developers going? I have 16 planes people are asking me to work on! If I have time I will take a look, looks like its biggest fault is the cockpit and autopilot.

[Berkut]

Cockpit could be transferred from the Neo. Maybe not the newest,or master by Artix,but some older,there's still an Omega's branch so the cockpit ,ap and FMC could be used from that one. FBW maybe?

Regards

[Octal450]

Yes that was my idea. I was gonna put the cockpit and autopilot from the neo, and maybe Fly By Wire.

[Octal450]

Well, it seems as this will take a while. There are allot of changes in the neo, so transfer in the cockpit will be hard.

[Berkut]

I'm test flying the A320 right now,with some fixes in the AP...so far so good. It behaves nicely ,but there's still a lot to try so,stay tuned.

Regards

[IAHM-COL]

I remember @Jan Wanted to work on this one too, I recommend you get in contact with him via Github (on the A320 family) repo. You may get him more interested on this if he sees he will have help. Besides he is very knowledgeable in FDMs and systems, and you can learn great deal of him.

[Berkut]

So,test flight is done... and i'm quite satisfied. Some small changes to the AP,made this plane much better. Climb ,cruise,and descend were nice,and much more stable then before. The only issue now,is that on lower ALT,and lower IAS,it tends to sink until it stabilizes on a wanted ALT or V/S ,so I had to ''help'' him a few times. Approach was with ILS and GS on,both are working nicely.

I will be free and push the current changes to it. If anyone wants to test it,feel free to do so,and suggest changes.

Regards

How to contact Jan on GitHub?

[IAHM-COL]

first. Push the changes to the repo , Sounds great

Second, on your commit add a comment, and tag him, like

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@jan-hudec


I am interested in developing this A320-family. I began with doing some AP changes seen here. I am just learning but I would be happy if you would like to collaborate.
@IAHM-COL told me you are also interested in this aircraft...

(continue whatever you want to tell him here... etc)