February 3, 20215 yr Good afternoon (from Colorado), I have the Honeycomb alpha yoke and recently received the bravo throttle. My question concerns flying the C172 with the steam gauges using both of these devices. I recently installed the driver to get the LED lights working on the bravo unit. When I only had the alpha unit, I used the large red button on the right side to turn on/off the autopilot. Now that I have the bravo unit, I've used its small autopilot off/on button as well and sometimes still use the alpha's red button for that purpose. Most of the time I have no problem having that autopilot off/on mapped to a button on both the alpha and bravo, but sometimes I do and no matter which I press to turn off the autopilot, it stays on. I realize that in the real plane one can turn off the autopilot several ways (by just turning the unit off, by pressing the smaill red button on the left handle, buy pressing down both trim buttons on that handle ... and should none of that work, one can always pull the fuse out the autopilot fuse on the panel). FYI ... yesterday I was approaching an airport to set up for the landing and tried to shut off the autopilot and couldn't. That said, when I was close enough to the airport to make the runway I slowed down, lowered the flaps then shut off the battery and alternator (to shut off the autopilot). Has anyone else experienced this where you can't shut the autopilot off with the bravo autopilot off/on button? Does anyone know why this may be happening? Could having this mapped to both the alpha and bravo devices be causing a conflict and be the cause? Should I just map the large red button on the alpha to something else? Mike
February 3, 20215 yr I have programmed the Bravo Autopilot switch to Autopilot ON & the alpha yoke red switch to Autopilot off. Works as in real life, press autopilot switch to ON, press red button to turn OFF. Technically, the Autopilot functions are Engaged & Disengaged but OFF & ON are used in the sim.
February 3, 20215 yr Author 17 hours ago, trainnut said: I have programmed the Bravo Autopilot switch to Autopilot ON & the alpha yoke red switch to Autopilot off. Works as in real life, press autopilot switch to ON, press red button to turn OFF. Technically, the Autopilot functions are Engaged & Disengaged but OFF & ON are used in the sim. Glad to see that it (always) seems to work for you that way. That said .... I will remap both of these switches like you've done. Thanks! Mike
February 4, 20215 yr Both my Alpha Yoke's red button and Bravo's "Auto Pilot" button do the same thing. They are both assigned to "toggle Autopilot Master", and I can use either with the same result without any conflict. For example, when I press the yoke's red button, the Auto Pilot light on the Bravo illuminates and goes off if I hit the yoke button again.
February 5, 20215 yr 19 hours ago, James Callan said: Both my Alpha Yoke's red button and Bravo's "Auto Pilot" button do the same thing. They are both assigned to "toggle Autopilot Master", and I can use either with the same result without any conflict. For example, when I press the yoke's red button, the Auto Pilot light on the Bravo illuminates and goes off if I hit the yoke button again. That works well but in real life, to engage the autopilot you press the autopilot button on the autopilot panel. The usual way to disconnect the A/P is through the column disengage switch. I do not know of an A/C where you can engage the A/P from the column, but I will stand corrected. Kev M
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