A320 Software Solution Beta 5.1
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10/20/2009

What's new:
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-Overhead panel and logic
-Lower ECAM SD display
-PFD speed tape improved (alpha protection, VFEs etc...)
-Other aircraft SHOULD be compatible now
-Corrected bugs here and there...
-5.1 version patches a problem with networking.

IMPORTANT NOTES (no real order here, please just read everything...)
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First, thank you for downloading this software!!
Second, please read the user guide!!

This software is still in a beta phase, which means there ARE bugs, some features not implemented etc etc.
I try to accurately reproduce the actual A320 instruments. It is obviously utopic as a freeware, but I try to do my best and I hope you'll enjoy...

This is tested ONLY with FSX and the latest registered version of FSUIPC!!!!!


At this stage, you NEED to have a joystick with a throttle axis...


YOU'LL NEED TO DOWNLOAD LEVEL-D B767 NAVDATA ON NAVUGRAPH WEBSITE, OTHERWISE SOFTWARE WON'T START, PLEASE CHECK THE USER GUIDE!!


If you use the default FSX A321, be sure to switch off the ELACs and other default FBW, just keep the raw input on the flight control (IE: on the overhead, turn OFF ELAC1, FAC1, ELAC2 SEC2, SEC3, FAC2, but keep ON SEC1).
For the moment, I canno't guarantee that other aircraft can work together with this software. Autopilot and FBW tuning is quite tricky, and takes a lot of my precious time ;)

The objective of this software is to help people build their own cockpits without spending $$$$ on realistic software.
In the same line, you can download my standby instruments for A320, they work great in combination.
I hope you have as much fun flying with it as I have coding it!!!



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Features
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-Realistic PFD.

-Realistic ND.

-Realistic SD.

-Realistic MCDU. Not all pages working yet, see below. And the "keyboard" graphics are pretty poor for the moment, neither my priority nor my favorite part ;)

-FCU logic.

-Overhead panel and logic.

-Own autopilot and Fly-By-Wire. Currently tuned for the default FSX A321. The tuning is not perfect and might result in stange behaviours sometimes.

-Managed and Selected modes for speed, heading/track, altitude.

-Lateral navigation. En-route Flight Plan management as well as SIDs and STARS, read further down.

-Simple Vertical navigation. All modes are present ( CLB,OP CLB, DES, OP DES, ALT, ....) but the managed vertical profile calculation is still very simple, as aircraft perfomances are quite hard to model...

-FSUIPC offsets.



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This software should cause no harm to your system, however I'm not responsible if any problems occur, you're using at your own risk (sorry for the pseudo legal stuff...).
It is distributed as a freeware only. You can distribute it freely at the sole condition of including this readme without any modification.

Have fun and if you want to send any kind of remarks, please do so here jeehell # jeehell.org , the # being an @, or on mycockpit.org 's forum!!!!