Heading on automatic pilot: Serious instability issue

Hi everyone,

 

I am encountering a serious instability issue when using the heading on automatic pilot (AP).

 

For a while, everything works fine. But as I am in a flight and I start to control my heading with the automatic heading on AP, the program goes haywire. The heading bug begins to rotate around and around, and I lose all FS2020 functionality. The keys stop working, I lose control of my mouse, and I have no choice but to shut down the program using the Task Manager.

 

When I control the heading on AP, I use the handy keyboard commands of CTRL+Insert and CTRL+Delete. Especially if I start adjusting the heading rapidly -- but even if I make nice and slow heading changes -- all of a sudden this problem comes up.

 

It is really annoying, and it should be fixed.

 

I hope that the FS2020 developers address this serious instability issue.

 

Thank you for listening.

 

Stanley

Just a question, are you by chance using Active Pause BEFORE this issue starts happening?

I can't say that I have had this issue. What aircraft is this with? One in particular or all of them?

 

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I can't say that I have had this issue. What aircraft is this with? One in particular or all of them?

 

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Hi everyone,

 

First, no, this problem has not occurred after having used Active Pause.

 

Second, I have flown only a few aircraft, but it is happening with all of them that I have flown.

 

Understand, please, this occurs when I am using the heading setting with AP. As I start to change my heading with CTRL-Delete and CTRL-Insert very fast, then this starts. But it even happens when I am being deliberately very slow and gradual changing my heading.

 

Stanley

Might be a bug/conflict with keybindings. What happens if you adjust heading bug with your mouse? You might also try to change heading bug adjustments to other keys to track down possible binding conflict.

Might be a bug/conflict with keybindings. What happens if you adjust heading bug with your mouse? You might also try to change heading bug adjustments to other keys to track down possible binding conflict.

+1

 

My thoughts too in case this is a keyboard issue. Definitely worth trying to assign a couple of joystick buttons to see if that changes things.

 

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Hi Stanley, I've tested this too and have no problems with Ctrl+Delete or Ctrl+Insert when changing AP Heading.

I agree with Scratch/Rapsu and stinger2k2, this may be either a keyboard or key bindings problem.

If you have a spare keyboard (or can borrow one) try that as a test.

If the problem still occurs, it's the key bindings (key assignments) in the control settings screen.

Try deleting the assignments for Heading Bug, then close and relaunch the sim.

Re-assign the original Heading Bug commands again and take a test flight.

 

Edit: One more thought and this might sound unlikely, but it could be that your FPS is set too high. Try reducing your FPS to say, 20 just as a test and see if it happens again.

Edited October 14, 2020 by tiger1962

Hi everyone,

 

Apparent success!

 

I guess that the key bindings were the problem. I changed the keys to be the left bracket ([) and the right bracket (]), and so far everything seems to be good. Actually, these two keys, were not used in any event, are more convenient -- I only need to press one key instead of two.

 

Thank you all so much.

 

Stanley

Hi everyone,

 

Apparent success!

 

I guess that the key bindings were the problem. I changed the keys to be the left bracket ([) and the right bracket (]), and so far everything seems to be good. Actually, these two keys, were not used in any event, are more convenient -- I only need to press one key instead of two.

 

Thank you all so much.

 

Stanley

Glad you have it sorted Stanley [emoji106]

 

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