mjmiller Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 I have had the sim about a week now, everything seemed to be working ok big learning curve. This morning I took off in a cesna jet from Las Vegas to Grand Canyon, set up my autopilot and took off, turned on autopilot but does not follow the autopilot settings for altitude and vertical speed. It will climb wildly up and then wildly down, ignoring VS and altitude settings in the autopilot. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgheinlein Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 From what I understand when you have the autopilot on and you press ALT it holds the current attitude. I can climb using the vertical speed wheel - decrease vertical speed/increase vertical speed - to set a 500 fpm climb. I'm having some problems descending while on autopilot. Once I've pressed the ALT button the autopilot seems to want to hold at that altitude and won't allow me to descend. I end up having the AI co-pilot land the plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frief Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Please consider watching this: It might help you :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shb7 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 The problem is, that's a 49 minute video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevemill Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 There are shorter videos but in the end occasionally the AP will decide to kill you even after you switch it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightDreamer Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 There are shorter videos but in the end occasionally the AP will decide to kill you even after you switch it off. ^^^ THIS! ^^^ I was flying the King Air 350 Saturday on a short hop from Santa Barbara over to Los Angeles when I got the sudden urge to go make myself a quick coffee (sadly no flight attendant service on this trip). My plan was to manual fly the route being that it's so short n'all... But figured I'd go ahead, set my relative heading to LA, kick on the Auto pilot, and select the altitude hold @ 13000ft. (yes, lucky #13... in hindsight probably not the wisest of decisions). Anyhow... So I got the AP configured and confirmed the altitude and track were holding as expected and headed off to the kitchen for that much needed coffee. Well no sooner am I out in the kitchen poring the hot water when I hear a faint autopilot disconnect sound off in the distance... Of course at that point I was in denial thinking "that surely couldn't have been MY autopilot?" --As if there was any other autopilot operating in the vicinity of my home--:rolleyes: So I wandered back to the captain's seat with delicious coffee in hand only to find that my beautiful King Air 350 was now resting in the middle of Ventura Harbor! :( Moral of this story... DO NOT TRUST THE AUTOPILOT !!! .... And for god's sake, stop being so cheap & just hire a darn flight attendant! ;););) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapitan Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) Most probably you have ALT autopilot in FLC (flight level change) in this mode, the autopilot uses the highest VS possible according to your speed/throttle configuration or your fmc. If you have speed or power it will climb fast. Its also usually linked to the flightplan waypoints in FMS, meaning if your waypoint has a speed of 280 kts and you set to climb level change it will climb at a VS that allows it to maintain speed of 280kts If you want to control the fpm you must change the altitude mode to VS, i dont know where you do that in the Citation cause i dont fly it and every plane is diferent, but it shouldnt be hard its there in autopilot panel somewhere Edited September 22, 2020 by Kapitan Kapitan Anything I say is...not as serious as you think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevemill Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 I can work around the AP shortcomings but sometimes things just break and the AP will try to turn in a heading and/or reach an altitude even though you have switched it off and have taken manual control for landing. It doesn’t happen often but it happened to me yesterday. Switched the AP off to enter landing pattern and the plane consistently fought to bank left and high. Trimming the nose hard down could break the climb and repeatedly turning the AP on and off eventually broke the turn. It seemed like that if you use NAV and have a desired altitude set but later use Heading Mode and VS, switching the AP off has the effect of telling the AP to chase the original settings despite the AP being turned off. And it was, without any doubt, turned off. According to both the Garmin and the button mouseover tip. It doesn’t happen to me often but it happens. My intuition is that the problem has gotten a lot worse since they ‘fixed’ the issue in the last patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) My theory is that the stability scalars are too low in the flight_model.cfg files of every aircraft that has one (the deluxe aircraft don't). Some have their stability settings as low as 0.1, that's just 10%, and I don't think the autopilot can handle that in turbulence or higher crosswinds. In previous sims, the stability settings have always been 1.0, or 100%. I've re-set all my stability scalars to 1, or 100%, and the autopilots are totally reliable. The scalars I'm referring to are in the flight_model.cfg under the [FLIGHT_TUNING] heading: pitch_stability = 1 roll_stability = 1 yaw_stability = 1 Changing these settings has no effect on how the planes fly, they don't handle as if they're 'on rails', and they still get bounced around in turbulence. Edited September 22, 2020 by tiger1962 Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shb7 Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 I've had altitude and vs off, with autopilot on, and somebody is still moving the trim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bam1220 Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 My theory is that the stability scalars are too low in the flight_model.cfg files of every aircraft that has one (the deluxe aircraft don't). Some have their stability settings as low as 0.1, that's just 10%, and I don't think the autopilot can handle that in turbulence or higher crosswinds. In previous sims, the stability settings have always been 1.0, or 100%. I've re-set all my stability scalars to 1, or 100%, and the autopilots are totally reliable. The scalars I'm referring to are in the flight_model.cfg under the [FLIGHT_TUNING] heading: pitch_stability = 1 roll_stability = 1 yaw_stability = 1 Changing these settings has no effect on how the planes fly, they don't handle as if they're 'on rails', and they still get bounced around in turbulence. Where can I find these settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Where can I find these settings? Oops! Sorry for not mentioning that (and the late reply), the aircraft folders are in: C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bam1220 Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Oops! Sorry for not mentioning that (and the late reply), the aircraft folders are in: C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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