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Same here---been decompressing Kaitak airport for about an hour!! Don't really want to shut it down and start that over right now, so gonna' go eat dinner and see what's going on after. Wanted to fly tonight but not sure now......

I can't offer much of a solution, but the same thing happened to me a couple days ago. I exited the sim and then restarted and everything worked fine. Not sure what the problem is but it must definitely be on their end!!

I figured out it was working by seeing it maintain altitude and course , both by vor tracking and gps tracking. I use what I think are the preprogramed keys, ie: On - alt+z, Off-shift+alt+z, altitude hold- ctl+a and Nav hold- -ctl+n. They all work as advertised! I have noticed that I have to hit the keys solidly to get the to work.

Let's see if this works. If you open it and resave it as systems.cfg you should be able to move it into your aircraft folder. archer systems cfg.txt

Nope. Until I started looking for an answer I didn't know I'd need a system file. It was already there.

Something is missing there. All of my aircraft have many more than those 4. Seems like without the other files the aircraft wouldn't work. Might want to try another install. Can't think of anything else to recomment.

Open the carenado-aircraft-pa28-archer-ii file. Open the aircraft by going to sim objects, airplanes and and then the archer folder. You'll get the list of files in the aircraft folder. Scroll down until you see the systems file toward the bottom of the list. Open that and then scroll down until you find the heading electrical. In there, circuit # 33 is the one that needs to be changed. Move across the page until you find the power item (it's something like 40, 40, 40.0#) and then change that to match the power item right above it= 5, 10, 10.0# than save before closing. That is what allowed my autopilot to work. It appears that the way Carenado sets it up the autopilot has no circuit breaker and therefore no power. This gives it that power!! Good luck!

Found it!! After a couple days exploring and trying to find an answer, I decided to compare files between the Archer and aircraft that have functioning autopilots. What I found was that the working ones used the same power source as the audio power. I made the following change and now I have autopilot using my keyboard: Go to systems, then electrical. Scroll down to autopilot, go across the page to power and it should look like this! power:5, 10, 10.0#

Thanks for the input Tim. The Archer did have an ai.cfg file, but I tried the one from the Skyhawk as well. Still doesn't work. For comparison, I changed the autopilot in the C152 Aerobat from 0 to 1 and everything works fine. There seems to be something in the build of the Archer that keeps the autopilot from engaging. I'm looking, but no joy yet!!

I recently acquired the Carenado Piper Archer and really enjoy flying this aircraft. I normally do 2 to 3 hour legs and so there are times I need to walk away, like to get more coffee or to get rid of some!! I was a bit dismayed to find the aircraft did not have an autopilot. In the System.cfg file the autopilot available is set to 1 and all the other numbers in that file are similar to the autopilot in the Skyhawk. My key bindings for the autopilot work perfectly in the Skyhawk but have no effect on the Archer. I've done a bunch of looking and find no reference to another place that the autopilot needs activation. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a setting that prevents the autopilot from work other than in the system.cfg. Thanks in advance for any helt!!

After trying all the ideas here and from Microsoft's zen desk and playing around for 3 weeks, I finally got fed up with this and a couple other issues on my pc. So, I did a repair of Windows which is basically a reinstall but saves your files. I still don't know what the issue was, but MSFS is now downloading!! I may get to use it again after all!

None of the above---its all the same. My ISP has changed but I don't see what affect that could have.

Thanks again, Tim. I appreciate all your efforts here. I tried this process and reset my store as well and still the same problem. I agree that it appears that the credentials have been corrupted and it's appearing that the only wat to get them back is repurchase which I'm loath to do. Guess I'll just hang it up for awhile and maybe by some miracle the problem will go away. Just don't know what else to try presently.

Thanks again, Tim. My Xbox app and Xbox Game Bar were both reloaded in the past couple days. The link you gave me does not show that I already own the game but, instead, wants to charge me again, although in pounds it appear rather than dollars.

Thanks, Tim. I've already done that numerous times, including uninstalling/reinstalling both. No luck. Guess I'll keep playing with it a bit longer and, if all else fails, just give up.