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PMDG B737ng sudden loss of altitude in cruise

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12 hours ago, eslader said:

I've had this happen before and it's usually coincidental to running weather settings that update at a set frequency rather than "live." If you're at cruise speed with an 80kt headwind and suddenly the weather changes so you have a significant tail wind, you will fall out of the sky until you've built enough airspeed to compensate.

I'll chek next time, ty.

Mauro

Edited by zetato

  • 5 weeks later...
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Update,

I think I found the culprit... It's myself, or better, I discovered that my old Saitek control wheel whom I removed the springs years ago and replaced with elastics,  has a little stop at around 1 cm forward the zero. Today I noticed i pushed inavertitedly a little with my knee, and it stayed in that position, forcing the aircraft to push the nose alittle down. tha AP tryied to correct in some ways, but it was a contiuous losing altitude to then regain it but always a little less. When i pulled the wheel to the correct zero, all worked well again.

Sorry for this mistake, and thanks to all that tryied to help me.

Have all a nice Christmas

Mauro

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