I have several airplanes that I would like to add an autopilot to. Can this be done? Are there Payware or freeware products that one can use to accomplish this task?Thanks,jim

I have several airplanes that I would like to add an autopilot to. Can this be done? Are there Payware or freeware products that one can use to accomplish this task?Thanks,jim

It can be done but it depends on how realistic you want the result to be. You can easily copy the autopilot popup window from for instance the default C172 panel.cfg. and add it to the plane you want (make sure to give it an unique number and you probably also have to copy the autopilot part of the aircraft.cfg from the C172 to the aircraft.cfg of the plane you want it in). This can be simply done with Notepad. If you want to add the AP to the VC in a nice way, it all depends on how the VC is build (if it has 3D knobs or not etc.). This also can be done with Notepad, but it gets a bit more complicated...What AP do you want to add to which planes? Is a simple popup AP good enough or not?

It can be done but it depends on how realistic you want the result to be. You can easily copy the autopilot popup window from for instance the default C172 panel.cfg. and add it to the plane you want (make sure to give it an unique number and you probably also have to copy the autopilot part of the aircraft.cfg from the C172 to the aircraft.cfg of the plane you want it in). This can be simply done with Notepad. If you want to add the AP to the VC in a nice way, it all depends on how the VC is build (if it has 3D knobs or not etc.). This also can be done with Notepad, but it gets a bit more complicated...What AP do you want to add to which planes? Is a simple popup AP good enough or not?

I guess ALT and HDG hold as a minimum, but, it would be nice if it could fly the IFR approach (LOC and GS).Jim