Community-made Modification Introduces Full-Fledged TechLog to Fenix A320 Family
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A modder named NaughtyPickle has created a comprehensive TechLog system for Fenix's A320 family that tracks over 150 part types with individual lifespans, records defects and wear per aircraft registration, enforces a real-world Minimum Equipment List with 207 items, and logs detailed flight metrics including landing quality and G-forces. Hard landings, overspeeds, and poor technique trigger immediate failures, while worn parts can be repaired or replaced. The system allows simulation of brand-new or aged airframes with varying maintenance complexity, adding persistent 'memory' across sessions.
Excerpt from Threshold
A lone modder has developed a full-fledged TechLog system for the Fenix Simulations A320 family, adding persistence, part wear, a flight log, and a Minimum Equipment List to the popular A320 add-on entirely for free.
While the vanilla Fenix experience always starts fresh (unless you manually trigger failures or enable random failures), NaughtyPickle’s implementation makes it so every airframe has its own “memory” of sorts, with persistent wear and tear, dynamic failures, and much more, bringing it closer to what it is like to fly a real A320.
Opened and deferred defects will be set at the start of every session, and they will remain saved for every upcoming session, alongside the fuel quantity, oil, oxygen, water, tire pressure, brake and tire wear, flight hours, and cycles, all on a per-registration basis, meaning every tail will be completely unique in that regard.
There are over 150 part types tracked by the TechLog system, each with its own specific lifespan. Worn parts will show a degraded fault before completely failing, and their failure rates will be significantly increased during periods of high stress, such as the engine start phase, takeoff roll, and when the landing gear is selected.
Hard landings, flap and gear overspeeds, tailstrikes, hot brakes, and thrust malpractices will cause immediate consequences, leaving items in the TechLog and/or showing up in the ECAM right away, depending on severity.
The Minimum Equipment List features 207 items with categories, placards, and restrictions. Some failures might even ground the aircraft due to their severity, while minor failures can be deferred.
There’s also the option to look up the failure in the Minimum Equipment List, as it appears on the ECAM, and decide on the course of action based on its severity. It can also calculate the landing distance, taking defects into account (very important in the case of problematic brakes or thrust reversers).
Worn parts can be replaced at will, either with a brand-new part or by repairing the worn-out part and giving it a bit of extra life (though that life will progressively diminish as it’s repaired).
The system allows you to either simulate a brand-new airframe or airframes that are several years old, and consequently, more or less MEL items to deal with.
The TechLog system also records every flight, including touchdown rate, G forces, speed, the touchdown point on the runway, approach stability at 1000 ft and 500 ft, an overview of wear on parts,…
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