Airbus A320: Auto Landing Tutorial

[Music] hello folks premise is back and today I'm gonna show you how the Airbus a320 performs on auto land for those of you who wonder yes it can land automatically and it can even do so when the vertical visibility is basically zero and the horizontal visibility is 50 meters so we are basically aligned with the runway we have about 10 miles to the localizer so we can start reducing your speed oh just a little bit because I've reduced it already and we can get the flaps to 1 we can see that the plot position is one the light is green so now we just continue currently we have about seven point five miles to the localizer in the meantime I'll look further it is the speed to 170 knots for example on the primary flight display you can see that the speed is already reducing the autothrottle is doing a great job we will select ILS so that we have the localizer which is the horizontal component of the instrument landing system which basically aligns you with the runway or horizontally and there will see the glide slope which is the vertical component which will align us vertically with the runway I'll select approach on the FCU flight control unit and this will make the autopilot automatically aligned on the localizer the horizontal component and the glide slope the vertical component now the speed is perfect for flaps - so I will be selecting flaps to the speed is checked and we have a green light position too positive indication we are good we have 50 miles to the runway and about now we can see that the localizer the horizontal component again is alive and the autopilot will catch it right now you can see localizer green and localizer capture I will now set my navigation display to ILS so that I can see a good indication here and we can see that the aircraft is established on the localizer of runway two five right at Frankfurt okay now for my convenience as a pilot I will do a PFD the primary flight display and navigation display transfer because always the captain has his primary flight display on the left we can now see speed in green this means that the auto trust is engaged and following our speed that we have altitude in green this means that we are maintaining 2,200 feet above mean sea level we have glideslope in blue this means that it is armed and ready to capture whenever it's available we have localizer green I talked about the localizer earlier we are capturing it then there is category three single this means that we can do our category three landing which is as I said zero feet of vertical visibility and 50 metres of horizontal but it is single this means that only one autopilot is engaged I will change that by selecting the autopilot to engaged as well now we can see we have category three deal autopilot one plus two are engaged with fly directors one and two and auto trust is engaged now we are almost capturing the glide slope I will reduce our speed - 123 knots this is our final approach speed and as we are nearing glideslope capture i am lowering the gear you probably can feel some shakiness from the gear lowering we have glideslope in green we are capturing it and we have three lights for the landing gear now what I will do is select the flaps two three and two for instantaneously only a few things left I will arm the ground spoilers so that the spoilers from the top of our rings can stop the aircraft when it's on the ground I will select the auto brakes to low so that I have automatic braking and I'll set the lights for landing [Music] what now the aircraft says that we are 1,000 feet above the ground we already have to runway in sight and you could probably see the PAP ID precision approach path indicators there are four lights they can show white or red if you have two white lights and two red lights this means that you're perfectly aligned with the vertical component with the glide slope if you have more than two red lights this means that you are too low and more than two white lights means that you are too high okay now we are at 400 meters the aircraft says we are perfectly stable we have land mode on the PFD and I'll rest my hand on the thrust levers for a go-around or for the retarding of the thrust levers hundred two hundred Huntford above [Music] 40:30 minimum recon recon and the aircraft made a perfect touchdown and it's actually keeping itself on the runway I'll now select some reverse in fact idle reverse because we don't need very much and we are doing 80 knots 70 knots 60 knots that is 50 knots I'll release the reverses 30 knots and only now I'm disconnecting the autopilot the aircraft stops and that's it this is how you land an Airbus a320 quiet the autopilot thanks for watching guys see you next time [Music]

Channel: BAA Training

Views: 1,557,503

Rating: 4.9201541 out of 5

Keywords: Baltic Aviation Academy, TRTO, Type rating training, Full Flight Simulator, FFS, Airbus A320, A320, Cold and Dark, Cockpit, Airplane, Autopilot, Autoland, Landing, Pilot, ATPL, Simulator

Id: LIaMALJjOEc

Length: 8min 47sec (527 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 06 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/roomtobreathe]

Did I miss how this could possibly be considered wtf? Really neat? Yes. Informative? Yes. Totally new to me? Yes. Wtf? Not even slightly...

[u/zo0mzo0m95]

Only works at certain airports with certain navigational aids. Cool technology though :)

[u/mad66]

No problem

Cockpits are locked, there is your first problem...

[u/UloPe]

For me the WTF is that you still have to hit about 15 knobs and levers at exactly the right moment. What part of "automatic" did they not understand?

[u/[deleted]]

Ew Airbus

[u/dorkquemada]

Now if only we had internet on all planes for said instructions...

[u/[deleted]]

how's that WTF? That's awesome!