Airbus A320 neo
Target for the Airbus A320 neo
50 to 100fpm
Full marks for descent rate up to 100 fpm; under 50 fpm the coach says the touchdown was softer than this aircraft is normally flown.
The marker is the median of 24 shared landings in it, 595 fpm.
- Vref reference
- 130ktat 66,300 kg
- Tail-strike limit
- 10°the category's
- Ideal touchdown zone
- 240 to 600mpast the threshold
- G-force
- 1.10Gfull marks, its own curve
The A320 family (and the FlyByWire A32NX in particular) has the most engaged community in MSFS 2024. Its fly-by-wire law makes landing it almost easy compared to traditional control-cable aircraft: the aircraft does a lot of the protection work for you. The trick is knowing when to override and when to let the flight envelope manage the situation.
Landing technique.
Vapp = Vref + GS mini (5 to 10 kt added wind buffer). The FBW PFD shows this directly. Use it instead of adding margin manually.
Idle thrust at 30 ft RA when the auto-callout fires. Late idle prolongs float; early idle drops you in.
Flare to about +5° pitch and HOLD. Airbus FCOM is explicit: 'flare and hold'. Don't pump the stick.
Direct law (gear extended, flaps configured) changes the feel, small inputs feel proportional. Don't muscle the side-stick like you would a 737 yoke.
After touchdown, push the stick fully forward to engage nose-wheel steering and load the gear for braking effectiveness.
Common mistakes.
Over-controlling the side-stick on flare, the protections do most of the work; lots of input creates pilot-induced oscillation.
Reverse-thrust idle deselect too early, bleed off speed below 80 kt before stowing reversers, not at 100+.
Late spoiler arming. Should be done during the after-takeoff checklist or by the descent latest, not on final.
How its touchdown is scored.
The score at each point of its curves. Between the points, scores fall in a straight line; the full method is in the scoring methodology.
In landings pilots have shared.
From the landings of pilots who made their profile public, and only the ones that count toward a grade.
- Shared landings
- 24by 1 pilot
- Median touchdown
- 595fpm
- Inside the target
- 0%of them
- Graded A+
- 0%of them
Best in this aircraft.
Pilots who opted in to the leaderboards, ranked by their share of A+ landings.
No board for this aircraft yet. A board appears once at least 5 opted-in pilots have flown it 10 or more times each. See the boards there are.
For reference.
Aircraft data
- Manufacturer
- Airbus
- Model
- A320
- Variant
- neo
- FAA approach category
- C
- MTOW
- 79,000 kg (174,165 lbs)
- Vref in flight
- Adjusted to the weight you land at
- MSFS source
- Default Std
- Category
- Narrow-Body Airliner
Roundout recognizes it in a title that contains
Airbus A320 neoA320 neoA320neoA20NA320-251NA320-252NA320-253NA320-271NA320-272NA320-273N
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Every landing in the Airbus A320 neo, graded against these numbers. Every update included, and tax or VAT in most countries.