35 minutes ago, SAPilot said:

 

Question : At what point do you activate <AUTO THROTTLE> during the take-off phase ?  I use SHIFT+R to activate.

 

 

 

I honestly don't know but I think in the real one you'd set it on takeoff and as you push the throttles forward it engages and sets speed per FMS (V speeds etc).

Maybe some of the real bizjet flyers here can let us know, I am curious as well!

54 minutes ago, SAPilot said:

Good evening

I think all the Longitude pilots are here.

Question : At what point do you activate <AUTO THROTTLE> during the take-off phase ?  I use SHIFT+R to activate.

If someone can give me a short summary of your actions from when the take-off roll starts , it would be greatly appreciated.

I know - there could be tons of Youtube videos to find my answers - even saw one today, the guy says AT is ON , but there is "zilts" indicated on PFD - go figure.

I use Dakfly and WT G3000/5000 mods.

Greetings.

 

 

I activate auto throttle after I have retract landing gear and flaps, but you can enable auto throttle before leaving the ground if you like, just preset FLC to the climb speed you prefer at take off and push the throttles forward and engage it.

Edited May 24, 20215 yr by Ixoye

57 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

I activate auto throttle after I have retract landing gear and flaps, but you can enable auto throttle before leaving the ground if you like, just preset FLC to the climb speed you prefer at take off and push the throttles forward and engage it.

Thank you for the reply.

Have tried your method and seems to work - but - it ignores the speed I have set eg. 230 knots for the climb. It just accelerates like mad up to 260 + knots and the VS is insane. I think it only started to "calm down" way past FL140. Is that your experience too ?.

Maybe I should ignore this AT on the climb and only engage in the cruise. It seems to work very well on the descend.

 

 

51 minutes ago, SAPilot said:

Thank you for the reply.

Have tried your method and seems to work - but - it ignores the speed I have set eg. 230 knots for the climb. It just accelerates like mad up to 260 + knots and the VS is insane. I think it only started to "calm down" way past FL140. Is that your experience too ?.

Maybe I should ignore this AT on the climb and only engage in the cruise. It seems to work very well on the descend.

 

 

Yes it is a bit slow in reaction, you did not forget to activate FLC before you set the climb speed? I also pulling down on the throttle before I activate it, it helps to calm it down, this aircraft is like a rocket in climb 😄

Edited May 24, 20215 yr by Ixoye

There is a toga button on the throttles, but I've never gotten it to work reliably. What I do is I set vs, once settled into the climb I switch to flc. Upon reaching my desired cruise altitude, I engage the at.

1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

There is a toga button on the throttles, but I've never gotten it to work reliably. What I do is I set vs, once settled into the climb I switch to flc. Upon reaching my desired cruise altitude, I engage the at.

Thanks. Sounds like the better method. Will give it a shot.

19 hours ago, Ixoye said:

Yes it is a bit slow in reaction, you did not forget to activate FLC before you set the climb speed? I also pulling down on the throttle before I activate it, it helps to calm it down, this aircraft is like a rocket in climb 😄

You're not wrong, press FLC (when on AT) to start a climb, go make a coffee, come back and she's just starting to climb.....

 

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@Ricardo41 thanks for this post, I just grabbed the flight dynamics mod and cant wait to try it out.

The Mod seems to work fine with the latest patch.

6 hours ago, Gazzareth said:

You're not wrong, press FLC (when on AT) to start a climb, go make a coffee, come back and she's just starting to climb.....

 

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This is not my experience, but I'm using the unmodded default version.  What I do is control the throttle manually at takeoff and when at ~210knots simply hit the AUTOPILOT button first, then immediately hit the FLC button, after which it captures the current airspeed and begins climbing--about like you would expect.   What you don't want to do is hit FLC before enabling the AP.  This is the first I've even known the Longitude had an AUTOTHROTTLE, and have no idea whether its on or off or for that matter how to use it.  The TOGO button doesn't seem to do much and that is after arming the AUTOTHROTTLE.  

10 minutes ago, Noel said:

This is not my experience, but I'm using the unmodded default version.  What I do is control the throttle manually at takeoff and when at ~210knots simply hit the AUTOPILOT button first, then immediately hit the FLC button, after which it captures the current airspeed and begins climbing--about like you would expect.   What you don't want to do is hit FLC before enabling the AP.  This is the first I've even known the Longitude had an AUTOTHROTTLE, and have no idea whether its on or off or for that matter how to use it.  The TOGO button doesn't seem to do much and that is after arming the AUTOTHROTTLE.  

The Mod really helps. AT works well from T/O to TOC. Does a good job in cruise also keeping it off the barber pole.

Edited May 26, 20215 yr by Flyfaster_MTN002

1 hour ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

The Mod really helps. AT works well from T/O to TOC. Does a good job in cruise also keeping it off the barber pole.

I'm guessing AT doesn't work at all in the default plane.  Is that true?  I'm set to FMS, click on the AT buttons but doesn't seem to do anything.

2 hours ago, Noel said:

This is not my experience, but I'm using the unmodded default version.  What I do is control the throttle manually at takeoff and when at ~210knots simply hit the AUTOPILOT button first, then immediately hit the FLC button, after which it captures the current airspeed and begins climbing--about like you would expect.   What you don't want to do is hit FLC before enabling the AP.  This is the first I've even known the Longitude had an AUTOTHROTTLE, and have no idea whether its on or off or for that matter how to use it.  The TOGO button doesn't seem to do much and that is after arming the AUTOTHROTTLE.  

I'm using the modded version, other than that it works ok. I never use FLC (on the default autopilot) before the AP is on, because the behaviour of it is wrong.

Spend 95% of my time in the CJ4 and the rest in P3D - try the Longitude every time there's an update, but it's not for me at the moment, even modded - the WT CJ4 is 100x better....

 

G

 

2 minutes ago, Gazzareth said:

the WT CJ4 is 100x better....

In what way do you notice the CJ4 is better?
I am using the longitude with FDE fix...
 

5 hours ago, Noel said:

 I'm using the unmodded default version.

Why?

3 hours ago, Gazzareth said:

try the Longitude every time there's an update, but it's not for me at the moment, even modded - the WT CJ4 is 100x better....

Please explain how you arrived at this number.....