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C172: AP tries to kill me

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Straight and level flight with ap on, everything is great. Then out of nowhere, the plane banks heavily to the left with AP on. The AP announciator is on on the pfd. This is the 2nd time it happened to me today with just a couple of hours inbetween. Last time I had to pause the game while doing something and when I came back and unpaused it, the plane immidately went into a steep left bank and dive. 

 

update: Recycling the avionics seems to have helped. If I just turn the ap back on after recovering the plane, it just doesn't follow the FD. If I turn the avionic master switches off and on the ap behaves again. 

Edited by Andreas Stangenes

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I tell you the truth I used AP in real 172R once. And it scare sh@t out of me as well! 🙂

Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASEL

My System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSD

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7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22

 

I think there's a bug with active pause, it messes with the avionics. Try using the pause to menu, it usually works better.

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At the time the AP stopped working the first time, my keybindings on my razer gaming mouse stopped working. I can only access my custom views by pressing left alt + 1 through 0. I have the same buttons mapped on my mouse, but as I said, for some reason they stopped working. Something is going awry under the hood. 

Andreas Stangenes

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AP still need some tweaking from Asobo

Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASEL

My System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSD

Put my hands on (pic/dual/given)

7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22

 

19 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

I tell you the truth I used AP in real 172R once. And it scare sh@t out of me as well! 🙂

Using the AP on the 172 was always an uncomfortable feeling - especially when it takes a minute to figure things out and you have a negative vert speed.

In MSFS2020, however, the autopilot really only operates in CFIT mode.

Take-offs are optional, landings are mandatory.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
To make a small fortune in aviation you must start with a large fortune.

There's nothing less important than the runway behind you and the altitude above you.
It's better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground.

Ugh...those "real life" comments. Every bug is just a pure simulation of real life....right!!

welcome to the beta

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File a zendesk ticket on the official forums. If this is a bug from the beta, there's nothing anyone here can do to fix it. 

17 minutes ago, Boby said:

Ugh...those "real life" comments. Every bug is just a pure simulation of real life....right!!

My "real life" comment ended with how the AP in MSFS2020 was faulty. Thanks for the jab though.

That said, there are instances where a fault is a pure simulation. I drive trains and I want to say 98% of my job is me fighting glitches and faults. A train simmer would lose their mind in a 1:1 simulation. "Uh, why does the windshield wiper stop working at 40mph?" "Why does the computer give me a 15 speed code with a clear signal?" "Why won't the touchscreen work at all?"

Edited by WestAir

Take-offs are optional, landings are mandatory.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
To make a small fortune in aviation you must start with a large fortune.

There's nothing less important than the runway behind you and the altitude above you.
It's better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground.

46 minutes ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

Straight and level flight with ap on, everything is great. Then out of nowhere, the plane banks heavily to the left with AP on. The AP announciator is on on the pfd. This is the 2nd time it happened to me today with just a couple of hours inbetween. Last time I had to pause the game while doing something and when I came back and unpaused it, the plane immidately went into a steep left bank and dive. 

I'm getting this with all G1000 aircraft...will try the avionics reset but it is a bit of a mess at the moment. Immediate wild banking/altitude changes. Thought it might be a difference between XP and MSFS G1000 implementation but suspect it is pretty much broken. Anybody actually able to use G1000+AP? I have the intention of never crashing a plane in this sim & this ain't helping :-)

Just now, Nate1 said:

I'm getting this with all G1000 aircraft...will try the avionics reset but it is a bit of a mess at the moment. Immediate wild banking/altitude changes. Thought it might be a difference between XP and MSFS G1000 implementation but suspect it is pretty much broken. Anybody actually able to use G1000+AP? I have the intention of never crashing a plane in this sim & this ain't helping 🙂

You'll have to wait for a fix. Right now the AP in every aircraft I've tried is essentially inop.

Take-offs are optional, landings are mandatory.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
To make a small fortune in aviation you must start with a large fortune.

There's nothing less important than the runway behind you and the altitude above you.
It's better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground.

Just now, WestAir said:

You'll have to wait for a fix. Right now the AP in every aircraft I've tried is essentially inop.

Thought that might be it. In the meantime I'm going bush flying (but this time on purpose) 🙂

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