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The Vital Simulation Airbus MCDU Aid is designed to be an introduction to the Airbus FMGS and MCDU, it will introduce the user to the way in which Airbus A319, A320, A321, A330 and A340 aircraft have their flight plans entered, and navigated.
The Airbus MCDU Aid is a Microsoft Windows dialog application that requires nothing more than a normal Windows PC or laptop.
The Airbus MCDU Aid runs in a near real time manner closely simulating the performance of a real Airbus MCDU. It is designed to introduce the concepts of the Airbus MCDU and allow users to enter flight plans, simulate flying them and modify them on route. It is not a certified training aid, but does have considerable capability of demonstrating the use of the Airbus MCDU found in the Airbus FBW aircraft.
- Simulated Nav Control Panel, Mav Display and MCDU
- Enter Company routes, create routes, enter SIDs and STARs , direct To
- Use Lateral Functions , Vertical Functions, Alternate destination , in flight route modifications
- INIT data entry, performance information, fuel predictions, constant Mach settings
- Progress pages, report pages, flight plan print pages
- Data pages, position monitoring, Equi - Time point page
- Easy to use controls, initial position, jumps, Speed x N. Flight plan delete
- Ability to simulate the flight of the entered route, view and control the Nav displays
 Select route origin and destinations from a world data base of airports
 The world's airports database is supported by a full runway data base allowing accurate runway and SID departures to be entered and viewed.
  Arch, Rose and plan view NAV displays, showing all waypoints, VOR, NDB, airports and route information are available.
 Useful controls to speed up the flight (Speed x N), Jump to Top Of Climb (TOC) or Jump to Top Of Descent (TOD) exist.
 A Vertical Profile dialog may be used to visualize the vertical profile of the designed route. This can be useful to see the differences step altitudes may make, or what the descent profile may look like.
 A full HTML based help system allows the user to gain knowledge of all aspects of the Airbus MCDU, from data entry to setting constant mach segments, to diverting to an alternate airport and more.
 An information screen exists to show the position, altitude and speed of the simulated aircraft against the MCDU target altitudes and speeds, as well as useful information about route discontinuity or hold status.
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