Yeah, I know that I should look at getting new hardware, but I thought that I had resolved the problem a couple of months ago. What is the CWS button? What does it do?

Edited February 11, 20242 yr by Christopher Low

I'm no expert, 😳😳

but I think it could be related to when nose wheel tiller *locks in* and the rudder is effective for the rest of the takeoff under a certain speed??

Either that or it's related to the input of the control-wheel in the air, when the autopilot is in comand B and not A so that the when the autopilot is engaged in CWS mode it follows the yoke input instead of disconecting the autopilot.. 

As I said I'm no expert, 😳😳😲 but thought it (could be related to the tiller use on the ground) autopilot-systems are advanced stuff..

Maybe *Stearman/flyer* guy could chime in? He's one of the experts on the the 737's 😃

I think he is a CFI and Level-D sim expert(checkride-guy) 

But I wouldnt not count on the sim beeing a culprit right now 😬 it seems to have it's issues especially with ground handling,

HOPEFULLY.. hopefully.. it will be quite a bit better in the SU15 BETA-build quite soon 🙂 I mostly fly the small Bizz jets and GA-aircraft

 

Hmmm NO sorry about that confusion 😳 it's only related (to the in air use as I wrote secondarily) use *to temporarly disengage* the roll/yaw on the autopilot, without the autopilot(mcp) completely disengaging it allows temporarly changing direction and following the control-wheel(yoke) (ie CWS: control wheel steering)

Edited February 11, 20242 yr by Rune-ENHD
Mistake.. in facts..

On 2/11/2024 at 5:40 AM, Christopher Low said:

Yeah, I know that I should look at getting new hardware, but I thought that I had resolved the problem a couple of months ago. What is the CWS button? What does it do?

In P3D, it's defined as ...

"Control Wheel Steering (CWS) is installed into the 310R and controlled via a button toggle located on the left grip of the left hand yoke. The button is a momentary switch that toggles CWS on or off via clicking the LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.

The Control Wheel Steering function is also linked to the Tail Hook (up/down) command in the simulator, allowing it to be assigned to a joystick / yoke button or a key command.

With CWS engaged, the pilot is able to change the airplane heading directly though rotation of the yoke while the autopilot is engaged, with the airplane holding the new heading when the yoke is released."

Also in P3D, there is a rudder_effectiveness line in the aircraft.cfg file which can be adjusted. Perhaps there's something similar in MSFS?