I am definitely not doing something right and I hope someone can set me straight. In order to lock the auto-pilot on a GPS course, here are the steps I'm taking and they don't work (for me, at least). Please take a look at the steps below and correct me.

 

1. Enter a "direct-to" flight plan into the MFD and activate that plan.

(magenta line appears on the MFD map page)

 

2. Make sure the CDI switch in the PFD is set to GPS

(magenta needle goes "active" and deflects)

 

3. Take off and fly to the needle until the needle is centered and I am at the desired altitude

 

4. Power up the KFC-225 and select the NAV & ALT keys.

 

At that point, the CT182T's auto-pilot successfully captures the selected altitude and the digital display reads," ROLL, NAV, ARM, AP, YD, ALT and the altitude captured.

 

The aircraft will not remain on the GPS course however and I can manually steer the aircraft which indicates to me the auto-pilot has not, in fact, captured the GPS course.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

As long as you've got NAV ARM, the autopilot has not captured the course.

 

Go to HDG mode and set the heading bug to intercept the GPS course. Then select NAV.

 

HDG mode should at some point intercept the GPS course and NAV should capture.

 

At that point, HDG, and ARM should turn off and only NAV and ALT remain.

Thanks Bert! I found out what I was not doing. The steps above were OK but insufficient. After performing the above, I needed to do one more thing. I needed to select the "VLOC" button next to the "CDI" button and toggle it to "GPS". Once I did that I was able to lock on to the GPS course entered into the G1000. I appreciate your response, thank you very much!

Oh right - I forgot that awkward "feature" in the Carenado G1000.. :wacko:

 

I've actually changed it in mine, so that the two change together, like in the real G1000.

 

I tried to convince Carenado to fix this during beta test, but without success..

 

Glad you've got it working!