Quick Airbus FMGC Tutorial By: Steven Wadyamandala

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You will see this page when you start open Airbus FMGC

Click the ‘INIT’ button to start

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

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

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

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Ok, now when you see this page, click ‘RETURN’

Next is write down your planned Flight Level on the scratchpad

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

Now click the ‘ALIGN IRS’ Button

Insert your Flight level here

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While you wait your IRS Aligning let’s 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.

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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…

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This is your Flight Plan Page

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

Next, Click on ‘DEPARTURE’

I’m gonna take Runway 07R for takeoff, click here

Scroll down here to find an SID that we’re gonna use, and I’m gonna use PW2C for Departure

After you select SID click ‘INSERT’

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

Choose the closest distance in NM

Type ‘KASAL’ on the scratchpad and put it here…

Okay, here we got…

Now, Click ‘KASAL’

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

Put it to VIA/GO TO

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You’ll see this page

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

Scroll down here to the end of the page

Click on ‘ARRIVAL’

I’m gonna use runway 10 for landing using ILS approach..click here

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Since there’s no Arrival for runway 10 so we just use ‘I10’

And NIMAS for transition and click ‘INSERT’

Click Here…

Okayy…we’ve already our takeoff runway, SID, Route, STAR and runway for landing at destination..

Click ‘CLR’ button and place it to ‘DISCONTINUITY’ row Now

scroll up here

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

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

Now Scroll down the page

Do the same thing to erase the ‘DISCONTINUTITY’ row

Write on scratchpad 1500 and put it here

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

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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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