Engaging Autopilot...

[Guest PoM]

Hello, Has anyone ever had trouble engaging the autopilot of the A320 series? Whenever I engage the autopilot the A3XX begins a huge nose dive. Is there a certain way in which I should turn the autopilot on? Maybe autothrottle first???ThanksChad Moore

[Guest g0kmt]

If you are using the airbus pro package with FS9.1, I would suggest getting the updated panel config. I had this problem along with many others, for example unable to control the aircraft with the joystick in 2d panel mode, the flight cotrols ECAM page would not show control displacements and a host of others including the ubiqutous flickering pointer. Now it all works fine. No more nose-dives and flyable in 2d manually.Hope that helpsIan

[Guest FlyNavy]

Basic rule : Do not engage A/P ON before PFD aircraft symbol is very close to the FD bars, particularly the horizontal one (A/P "hunts" FD bars to get them centered).AutoThrottle is totally independant of AutoPilot.