Weird Autopilot After Load of Flight

[StringFellow]

I have tried several different prop planes (haven’t tried jets yet) and have an issue with AP.

 

I create a flight plan in game, save the flight plan and start my flight. During flight I have AP engaged and the plane is flying perfectly. Tracking GPS without issue. I then decide I want to save and restart the game later. I save the .flt file at this point.

 

Later I load the flight plan and flight details. The game loads and I am the flying manually as expected. I enable AP and the plan immediately banks hard right and down. If I do nothing the plane will continue to go in an downward spiral. If I disengage AP flying the plane manually works just fine. Reenable the AP and the same issue occurs.

 

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[jamesbecker]

Ive noticed this the last three flights,with Bonanza,Cirrus,and the Baron.I takr off,climb to like 1500 ft,engage hdg,ap,alt,and all of a sudden,the plane is acting like a stunt plane,diving,climbing,banking hard.Totally uncontrollable.Wasnt doing this earlier.Its gonna take a while.

[Elvensmith]

Do a serach for autopilot and you will find this is a known (but tedious) issue. It seems the AP in NAV/GPS mode is trying to backtrack towards the first WP in your flightplan. Also tries to fly into the ground as noted, which I've also had if I try and enable heading and follow the onscreen WP display.

 

We will need to see if anything regarding this is addressed in the forthcoming update, though not holding my breath.