I thank everyone who reads this post and apologize if it's been answered elsewhere. I've been searching everywhere and simply have not found this issue addressed.
I recently purchased Aerosim's add on for the Boeing 787. Nice! I have FSX all tweaked and everything looks and performs great...except for this.
I am not an advanced FSX user; mainly to state I do not yet create and fly IFR positive control flight plans. I create direct, VFR, GPS routes. I prefer to create a very long direct final into the landing runway. I will typically enter a waypoint over 100 miles from the runway, allow the airplane to turn, then start a slow descent to "approach" altitude. I like to acquire the LOC/GS approx. 20 miles out that necessitates the "approach" altitude at 5000' AGL.
Here is the problem. When I first create the VFR/GPS flight plan, flight planner always picks a "default" altitude. This seems to be random, but perhaps based on other factors, however I enter a 0 altitude. I always manually select altitudes when I fly through the autopilot.
Now, when I am in flight, and cross the waypoint for the approach, the airplane/autopilot/flight plan starts a descent, based on some random altitude. It over rides the altitude hold and goes to VS descent.
Every time I load a flight plan I check the altitude, set to 0, but same problem. This only happens if my current hold altitude is above whatever "random" altitude flight planner selects. It has not "yet" tried to climb to altitude.
I have deleted plans and created new, but I believe it may be in this random altitude setting by FSX.
Any ideas?
Thanks, fc