Hi all I just want to clarify that with the A/P off when I manually fly the aircraft on take off is the flight director not supposed to follow the course as per the ND/FMC. I like to manually fly the aircaft up to 10000 ft and then click the A/P on but right now I can't follow the course as the F/D bars simply stay centred and only give vertical guidance. is there anything i am not doing that i should be doing to enable the F/D bars to follow the course as per the FMC/ND??

Hi, Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms... (please insert name here).Have you armed LNAV and satisfied the criteria for capturing LNAV? (i.e. not too far way from the LNAV path OR your current aircraft track will intercept the first leg of your route).Rgds.Q.P.S. Sorry, I'm not sure if "Gooper" is male, female, neither or both??? :-)

Yes, regardless of whether you press CMD or not, you still have to engage the autopilot pitch and roll modes of your choice after takeoff in order to recieve FD guidance. Otherwise it's just going to command wings level or HDG SEL, whichever option you have set...