BAe 146 Panel -- A/S Hold

[Guest]

Hey gang,I recently downloaded Matthias Lieberecht's BAe 146 panel for FS2002, and I've come across a slight problem. It appears (to me, at least) that the airspeed and mach number hold functions of the autopilot are a little...ah...tempermental. When I engage them, the throttles instantly cut back to zero and stay there, so I end up flying the throttles manually (which I can live with). I was just curious to see if anyone else had had a similar anomaly.Could it be the aircraft model? I'm using the IADG RJ85 from Precision Simdesigns, which is a FS2000 model, but I've never run into any problems with FS2000 aircraft thus far.(BTW, I had to reboot FS 3 times just to get any part of the autopilot working, so maybe I just need to run her through a couple more flights:))Thanks in advance,Matt

[Guest]

Hi Matt,Are you manually setting the speed bug (POSITION NUMBER 44 on the instruction guide) to desired speed BEFORE engaging the "IAS" (POSITION NMR "13")??VJ Carlo

[Guest]

VJ Carlo,Thanks for your reply. I went back in today and set the bug BEFORE I engaged the IAS hold, and that seemed to do it, except that she was very hesitant to accept any changes I made to the bug afterwards, as if the plane just held that first setting but no others. I still played around with it some and eventually got it to change, but it still seemed a little fussy. Oh well. At least I have some functionality now, and I'll from now on write down everything I do so I remember what works and what doesn't! ;)Matt