November 9, 20232 yr Is it possible to limit the max and min vertical speed in autopilot gauges? I know that the "default" setting can be changed in the aircraft,cfg file, but this is only the default setting that the autopilot will use if no particular VS is dialed in. Apparently FSX (and P3D) use a max of 9999 fpm and a minimum of -9999 fpm. What this means is that this is the MAXIMUM values that can be used in the autopilot. Evan if the VS display is limited to, say, 2000 fpm, (using XML), the dialing process can still produce an output to 10,000 fpm. This allows for misunderstanding when the display is showing one thing and the process has produced another. 10,000 fpm max may be useable in a fighter jet, but in a small GA aircraft, 10,000 fpm is approaching true vertical climb. Surely there could have been a function built into the aircraft configuration files to limit the max and minimum values for different aircraft. default_vertical_speed= say 600, (gives the "default" setting) while something like.... max_vertical_speed= say 3000 (gives the MAXIMUM and MINIMUM settings). I have not been able to come up with a way of using XML coding to limit the maximum vertical speed. Is it possible??
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