Well, after testing the aircraft I want to use autopilot with, and finding the AP buggy, to say the least, I have developed the following philosophy to deal with the situation:

Until such time as the autopilot issue is fixed, I will only use MSFS as a VFR, hand-fly simulator. In my experience it is quite good in this mode, and I enjoy it a lot!

If I want to fly tubeliners or bizjets IFR, I will use X-plane 11.5, where the autopilots work, and the scenery, while not up to MSFS standards, is still pretty good if we are being honest.

 

That's it.

Aggravation alleviated.

 

Feel free to try it yourself.

(You may, of course, substitute P3D or FSX for X-plane as you see fit.)

 

 

Russ

Even better for me even being in the Alpha since December is to not even do anything with it now and just wait it out.  Even more aggravation alleviated plus I cancelled my 2nd ThrustMaster Airbus throttle quadrant as well as I don't have to dump my 2080TI for a 3080 or 3090.

I was an Alpha tester as well, so I feel your pain, but I really do enjoy hand flying VFR hops. So far I haven’t run into any of the avionics dropouts, but as soon as those crop up I’ll be out as well until I read in the forums that it’s fixed. 
 

Party on!

 

Russ

I have been using AP in TBM and it overall works fine, at least for the basic purposes such as holding the altitude and flying the NAV mode. Haven't touched airliners so maybe AP is much lacking in these planes.  

 

Following this whole series of debates about MSFS has been so interesting.  You can learn a lot about human nature and how different we all are.  

It comes down to personality, really.  How we view the world.

Confronted with a rushed product with so much potential the members of the community seem to be split along three basic paths.

There are those who work around the problems and find a way to enjoy what they have while waiting for the sim to be patched into a more complete state.  Glass half full.

There are others who find themselves denied access to what they want from the sim and can't abide it.  They get refunds or just shelve it till later.  Glass half empty.

And the third group seems to have had it in for MSFS at the moment of launch.  All they can seem to do is denounce it.  Who needs that newfangled glass anyways?

I'm one of the first group.  I didn't expect a complete product as soon as I heard it was to be released in August.  But I was interested enough to have paid $60 to get into a beta, even if the release date was sometime in 2021.  Yeah, this feels like a beta,  I've already easily gotten my money's worth already.

I can understand the second group.  If I was looking to fly the A320 realistically, and that was my only real goal, I'd be highly disappointed too.

I can't understand the third group, except as people devoted to an existing simulator who feel threatened by the new kid on the block; rightly, as it appears that this is the future 800LB gorilla of the sim world and will probably attract the vast majority of top-tier developers eventually.  Eventually.  

Anyway, it's been fascinating to watch the debate over the last month and some days.

It'll all sort out over the next year or so.  I remember the FSX launch.  Now that was a rough ride!

Dutch
 

I will do the same, hand flying VFR is the way to enjoy this sim right now, I will try out the C-152 mod tonight.

25 minutes ago, Dutch727 said:

There are those who work around the problems and find a way to enjoy what they have while waiting for the sim to be patched into a more complete state.  Glass half full.

@Dutch727, you missed the group that recognizes that half of the volume held by the glass contains liquid and the other half contains air.  Technically, the glass is full, and in this case since both are fluids, it is full of fluid.