Autopilot behaviour

[droopy114]

Hi all, just noticed this last night, last update, 1.5.5.60503 Update 4, when you engage autopilot, straight and level, the plane start to move up and down slowly but surely, you can see this with the FPM who start to move up>down. It's worse when you start a turn through the trim command. I remember clearly before this update it was working great, FPM never moved this way and it was perfectly level. A friend of mine has the same issue.

[Fri13]

What if it is now more realistic, a fixed feature?

[droopy114]

What if it is now more realistic, a fixed feature?

 

This is what i would like to know, bug or realistic feature?

[droopy114]

Hi guys yep AP tuning is a work in progress, unfortunately. I recently had to fix the relaxed stability behavior. This greatly affects the control tuning for the AP. Once I get that further refined I need to go back and clean up the AP control gains.

 

Good to know, thank you for your reply.

[Hans_Dampf]

It seems like that the "hold selected altitude" function does not work properly too? At least on my end the plane does not climb nor descent....

[razo+r]

It seems like that the "hold selected altitude" function does not work properly too? At least on my end the plane does not climb nor descent....

 

you need to be at a certain altitude, only then will the AP ascend or descend to your altitude

[Robin_Hood]

It seems like that the "hold selected altitude" function does not work properly too? At least on my end the plane does not climb nor descent....

 

I think if you climb or descend to the selected altitude, the autopilot will kick-in when you approach ir and hold it (and the light will go from yellow to green).

[Hans_Dampf]

So has the functionallity changed? A few patches ago it used to work like this: be at e.g 10.000ft, select 15.000ft on the drums below the AP panel, engage "selected altitude hold" and the plane would start to climb and eventually switch to "altitude hold" when 15.000ft were reached, but now it does actually nothing really...

[myHelljumper]

You have to set you climb/dive rate with the trim hat, it's how it works IRL. When you are near the selected altitude the auto pilot will take control of the pitch and level the plane.

Edited December 26, 2016 by myHelljumper

[Hans_Dampf]

ah ok, that makes sense! Thank you :)

[spiddx]

Another method without the trim hat: just set your desired pitch (simply using the stick) then engage the AP...

[Robin_Hood]

Another method without the trim hat: just set your desired pitch (simply using the stick) then engage the AP...

 

Or, if you're already in autopilot, you can also use the temporary standby.