June 25, 20205 yr The autopilot may be on, even in the background.. = runaway trim, trimming for an altitude hold. Try the "Z" key to turn it off. FS RTWR SHRS F-111 JoinFS Little Navmap
June 25, 20205 yr 13 hours ago, spokes2112 said: The autopilot may be on, even in the background If I remember correctly, the Just Flight 152 does not come with an autopilot. Van Nuys is not high enough to cause altitude issues so your problem remains puzzling. From an earlier post you mentioned that you had a lot of fun flying it so presumably you have managed at least one successful take-off! Have you by any chance inadvertently overloaded the baggage compartment which could potentially affect the centre of gravity and cause an extreme nose up attitude after take off? Bill
June 25, 20205 yr 31 minutes ago, scianoir said: If I remember correctly, the Just Flight 152 does not come with an autopilot. I don't own it myself.. but.. If there was an accidental inclusion in the aircraft.cfg of --> [autopilot] autopilot_available=1 and regardless if there is an autopilot gauge in the cockpit or not, a saved flight with the AP on or an accidental keypress of "Z" can cause trim runaway, which sounds like exactly what is happening. IE no control of pitch. 15 hours ago, Semper_Artist261 said: When it looped up uncontrollably and stalled, with no forward yoke control, I was taking off from Van Nuys airport. EDIT - Downloaded the demo & installed.. Guess what?[autopilot] autopilot_available= 1 That will cause a world of hurt with no AP installed in the panel and the aircraft is loaded from a saved flight where a different aircraft is used in the flight and then switched to the 152. Note -- This is the only way it will happen as default_bank_mode & default_pitch_mode are both set to 0 (none). The fix so there will be no more occurences, in any situation? [autopilot] autopilot_available= 0 Edited June 25, 20205 yr by spokes2112 found probable cause FS RTWR SHRS F-111 JoinFS Little Navmap
June 25, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, spokes2112 said: Guess what?[autopilot] autopilot_available= 1 Well I have learned something new - thank you. Great piece of detective work! Bill
June 25, 20205 yr Author Hidden Autopilot on the C150 trainer? Who would have thought... Anyway, this issue only happened once with 10% flaps on take off. I usually fly mountains, so when this happened at zero elevation Los Angeles, I thought maybe that was some kind of software issue or I was too heavy on the throttle. I restarted the free flight and went to Van Nuys with the motor running again. I held short at runway 30 (if memory serves me right) and asked for VFR clearance. The ATC asked me to hold short for a plane landing. Ok. The plane lands and disappears. I wait and wait and wait, flaps up this time. No ATC. After a long long time, I just taxi onto the runway. When I got ready to take off, the ATC says I'm clear for take off. Clearly a glitch. I take off with zero flaps and everything goes fine. I noticed my elevator trim from my yoke barely moves in the plane, so another glitch...probably yoke control in my CH setup software. That's another suspect for me...the yoke control might have an issue and it's not the plane at all....even though this doesn't happen with other planes. Yesterday, I was flying my TBM 850 from Lompoc AFB. I did a loop, got back in the pattern, asked for landing clearance and got it. I began descending, but damned if that plane wants to fly. I was trying to trim the nose down, but the plane didn't want to do it, so I pushed my yoke hard all the way down. Almost idle, prop full and not full to see how it reacts, mixture full, gear down and two levels of flaps. I can't find the checklists, so I just flew it by feel and air speed. Perfect landing, but a bit short wheels touching down on the runway. Otherwise a perfect landing, but the plane has hard to cooperate on nose down and it was like I had zero trim. This is why I think maybe I have a yoke program issue.
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