Hello, my autopilot completely stopped working yesterday. It doesn't work in every plane, whenever I engage the autopilot it shows the flight director just fine, and also moves the yoke in the correct direction, but the plane just banks to the right until it starts spinning. It only slightly moves the control surfaces, but not nearly enough, until it spins out and crashes. For example in a 747, when I select Heading and altitude hold, I can see the flight director and the yoke moving in the correct direction, but it doesn't move the plane. Anyone having the same issue?

 

Greetings

I am, off and on. I'm not sure because it hasn't happened enough for me to establish a reliable pattern, but a couple of times when it decided to do an aileron roll I've had success with leaving the autopilot on, but applying enough counter-yoke to keep the plane upright but still turning. I suppose it's fortunate that another AP bug in the sim is that control inputs don't disconnect the AP. 😉

 Once the plane gets to whatever arbitrary heading it thinks it ought to be pointing to, it stops trying to roll it and starts working normally again, including properly turning toward the heading it's actually supposed to be targeting.

I have no idea if this will work for you, and I also have no idea what triggers the problem in the first place.

 

Edited September 1, 20205 yr by eslader

I agree.  I get CTD when I try to activate an approach on the G1000 I did in the Flight planner. 

When I tried to activate VS mode the plane pitched nose up violently even before I set a vertical speed.  And even after setting a VS, it stalled.This wasn't happening a couple days ago.  Did something get borked?

After flying on autopilot for about 30 minutes at 6,000ft with live weather, the Bonanza abruptly banked left and started a rapid descent.  I disengaged it and got the aircraft flying level and straight again.

After that, every time I tried to turn the autopilot back on it banked left and nosedived.

I'm going to try another test flight tomorrow in the Bonanza.  If it does this again I'll submit a bug report.

Dave

4 hours ago, dave2013 said:

After flying on autopilot for about 30 minutes at 6,000ft with live weather, the Bonanza abruptly banked left and started a rapid descent.  I disengaged it and got the aircraft flying level and straight again.

After that, every time I tried to turn the autopilot back on it banked left and nosedived.

I'm going to try another test flight tomorrow in the Bonanza.  If it does this again I'll submit a bug report.

Dave

you need to set it up correctly first before engaging ap.

no issues here.

I’ve seen this too but seems to be limited to reloading a previously saved flight or continuing a flight after shutdown. New flights started with the menu so far have been ok (but that could just be random luck).

 

 

I suddenly have this too - haven’t changed anything and it was working fine up till today. Now, it does exactly as stated above - right bank into the ground. I’m using the g1000 correctly

9 hours ago, wim123 said:

you need to set it up correctly first before engaging ap.

no issues here.

Could you explain exactly what you mean by "set it up correctly"?

Thanks

 

5 minutes ago, dave2013 said:

Could you explain exactly what you mean by "set it up correctly"?

Thanks

 

 

If it’s any use I’ve worked out the problem with my own setup. I have a separate usb numeric keypad. For some reason it was creating a controller conflict - I’ve simply unplugged it and the problem is resolved.

I’d recommend looking for duplicate control surface mappings and deleting those you don’t use.

 

edit - spoke to soon. This fixed it for 5 mins  and now it is back!

Edited September 2, 20205 yr by Nate1

I've had autopilot problems after using active pause.  The autopilot seems to try to continue trimming the plane thinking that its airspeed is rapidly dropping.  When I unpause I dont seem to be able to rectify to bring it all back to normal - plane does a steep turn to find heading (and then keeps spinning past it).

On flights where I dont use active pause I havent had any issues.

(this is with the C172 - steam instrument version)

Okay, after trying around for an eternity, and even reinstalling the sim I think I found the issue for me. Somehow the game all of a sudden didn't detect my controllers neutral position correctly anymore, and always thought I was steering to the right more and more after starting a flight. Weirdly my yoke in-game didn't move, but I could see it on the sensitivity panel in the settings menu. I am using a Thrustmaster T.16000M and after reinstalling the drivers from the thrustmaster website it seems to be working fine now.

I’d actually just edited a sensitivity setting when the issue started - will try the driver approach - thanks! I’m on a hotas one.

19 minutes ago, VFXSimmer said:

I've had autopilot problems after using active pause.  The autopilot seems to try to continue trimming the plane thinking that its airspeed is rapidly dropping.  When I unpause I dont seem to be able to rectify to bring it all back to normal - plane does a steep turn to find heading (and then keeps spinning past it).

On flights where I dont use active pause I havent had any issues.

Until they fix the AP issues with Active Pause, try this:

Go into your Control settings and set the Filter to "All" and then a text search on "pause." You'll see two commands that aren't mapped by default -- set pause on, and set pause off. Map those to an unused key or controller button. I use "p" for pause and "shift p" for unpause.

This pause mode won't freak out the autopilot. You can't use cockpit controls in this mode, but the external view and drone camera are available.

For my (non active pause related) issue, removing the device in windows, reinstalling the drivers, restarting the pc, has resolved the issue - thanks all 🙂