The spinning heading bug of death

[styckx 1,871]

Second time I've encountered this.. I'm a big fan of using CTRL DEL or INSERT to set my heading bug and it randomly will freak out and just continue non-stop doing complete  counter/clockwise rotations at about one rotation a second without any input from the keyboard and is just stuck doing that. Has anyone had this happen and if so found a way to stop it without closing the sim?

Edited September 18, 2020 by styckx

[Emerson67 248]

I had that. I don´t remember exactly what I did to stop it. I think I pressed the opposite key to stop the rotation.

Edited September 18, 2020 by Emerson67

[LarryD 132]

I've had this happen countless times, and I've never figured out how to make it stop.  Everything becomes unresponsive and I have to use task manager to kill the app.  In fact, after I read the post, I went and tried it again and sure enough, the spin of death.  It would also happen to me when I used the knob in the cockpit if I held it too long.  Since the latest update however, I think they fixed it in the cockpit because it only moves one degree at a time, instead of the accelerated increase as when using Shift Insert/Delete too aggressively.  The solution is to just do it VERY SLOWLY.  Not really a solution but live and learn.

[Marco Manieri 194]

Never experienced although I mainly use the mouse wheel.

The few times I used the key binding (in external view) I luckily never had it.

BTW great name for the bug! 😂

[michaelray 236]

Yes have sometimes encountered this. Never found a way to stop this without exiting the sim.

I have found when this happened I had depressed the key for a reasonable time to move the heading bug in excess of 100 degrees. Now I do this in shorter bursts and that appears to eliminate the issue. 

[ThomseN_inc 1,128]

lol yes! Happens to me every now and then causing my flight to end abruptly. So when going cross country for longer distances i try to avoid the keyboard commands. 😛

[Blade_au 18]

the fix for this is to make sure you don't have multiple key bindings........worked for me 

[ErichB 3,640]

Speaking of which is the 10 degree increments fixed with the latest update?

[NightOfDreams 370]

Happened to me last night. Never happened before the patch.

[Iraq War Veteran 2]

Definitely is a bug!!! Happens to me every time to use keyboard to change heading bug. I read that turning down the keyboard repeater speed helps.