michelvdriel

Hi Paul,thanks for your reply.The setting is already set to never. I'm using the logitech extreme 3DPro controller, which I picked up last week. My old controller was almost dead so I had to replace it. I always recalibrate the joystick before every flight (just an annoying habit I think), but I've checked the values and the throttle control doesn't move even one digit when it isn't touched.To be sure, I tried my old joystick with the weather options in FSUIPC disabled (this causes the plane to overspeed in the first place), but had the same effect.What happens is:The plane overspeeds because the wind changes radically.The AP sets throttle idle and nose up.The speed goes downat the desired speed the AP should increase throttle, but doesn't. It does however decrease pitch and return to the correct flightlevel.Whatever I try, I'm unable to increase throttle. Except: disconnect AP and manually increase throttle.If the AP was somehow overridden by the joystick, increasing or decreasing the throttle control would have an effect, but it doesn't, so I don't think the problem lies there.If the AP remains connected, it only recovers when the plane goes into speed protection mode. Then it increases throttle and maintains the speed entered.I'm still unsure why the plane reacts the way it does.

Bought a registered version of FSUIPC and enabled the weather options. Made several flights since then, and no more sudden in- or decreases of speed.Thanks for your help!Regards,Michel van Driel

Hi all,In my last flight it happened to me again. The plane gets a sudden speed-boost and goes too fast. Since I'm flying the auto-pilot the AP disables FMS speed and sets a safe, lower speed (in this case 350kts). The plane slows down, but the AP doesn't increase throttle when the set speed is reached. It remains idle until the low-speed protection kicks in. Pressing the "FMS Speed"-button, setting a different speed or switching to the other AP doesn't help.Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm making regular short flights and this seems to be the only problem I'm regularly encountering.Thanks in advance for any advice!Regards,Michel

Hi,I'm sorry for not responding for quite a while... Have been on holiday, so no time :)I don't have FSUIPC (and don't know it either)...Thanks!Michel

I'll have a look when the problem occurs exactly and let you know.It starts fine, but during the pre-flight events and checklists somewhere it changes the behaviour of the autopilot settings.Regards,Michel

Hi,When I'm using Default FSX 747 I'm having a strange problem.When I start, everything works as supposed to, but while running the checklists I need to go through before departure it seems that FSX 747 changes something so I can only set the heading, altitude, speed etc in the autopilot multiplied by 10. So setting the course 110 and 120 etc is no problem, but trying to give the autopilot a course of 112 is impossible. Anybody else have this problem AND a way around it?Thanks!Michel