Adolfin Posted October 28, 2016 Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 I encountered the weirdest thing. The autopilot of IXEG would not enable me to engange Vnav, ALT hold, VS or any of the altitude modes. Im am lost to why. Never has happend to me before, Maybe its just one of those days. Anyway whenever it disengaged the first A/P warning light would flash amber. Anyone have any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poodster Posted October 28, 2016 Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 One possibility I have is that your null zone setting is too low. If the plane senses any movement in the yoke, the autopilot disengages. Check your null zone and possibly increase it a little it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adolfin Posted October 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 2 hours ago, poodster said: One possibility I have is that your null zone setting is too low. If the plane senses any movement in the yoke, the autopilot disengages. Check your null zone and possibly increase it a little it. My null zone setting is at 15% or so I think (not by my computer ). Does the auto pilot not work if any inputs are on the stick? I'm thinking it might be a calibration error with my joystick. I'll try recalibration but if anyone has any ideas please post them. Further info, I did 2 flights previous to it messing up today, all was smooth but I didn't restart between flights. Might be something to do with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmerelles Posted October 28, 2016 Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 There is a CWS nullzone slider on the ixeg preferences left screen menu, move it full to the right just to be sure. This will prevent the a/p from disengaging as well as several modes refusing to engage if you joystick potentiometers are sending noise. The aircraft systems "think" the pilot is moving the controls manually on purpose to override the systems. If you still have issues i would recommend you attach some screen captures or a video for us to see what is going on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adolfin Posted October 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 (edited) 8 minutes ago, mmerelles said: There is a CWS nullzone slider on the ixeg preferences left screen menu, move it full to the right just to be sure. This will prevent the a/p from disengaging as well as several modes refusing to engage if you joystick potentiometers are sending noise. The aircraft systems "think" the pilot is moving the controls manually on purpose to override the systems. If you still have issues i would recommend you attach some screen captures or a video for us to see what is going on. Alright thanks for the suggestions. As I'm not on my computer as of now I can't test yet but I'll test it when I can and send you guys the results. I'll try attaching some screen caps. Thanks guys EDIT: Not my screen caps but It seems someone else had the same issue, note that for me it happen right from takeoff, this is with ap a enabled, and V Nav pressed, but all altitude settings result in the same. A disconnect of the mode and flashing amber light Edited October 28, 2016 by Adolfin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmerelles Posted October 28, 2016 Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 (edited) Yes, this is the problem with joystick sending noise and the aircraft think the pilot wants to override a/p. Note on the PFD screen it entered CWS mode illuminated yellow Edited October 28, 2016 by mmerelles attached the image back to note CWS mode 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poodster Posted October 28, 2016 Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 52 minutes ago, Adolfin said: My null zone setting is at 15% or so I think (not by my computer ). Does the auto pilot not work if any inputs are on the stick? I'm thinking it might be a calibration error with my joystick. I'll try recalibration but if anyone has any ideas please post them. Further info, I did 2 flights previous to it messing up today, all was smooth but I didn't restart between flights. Might be something to do with that? mmerelles is right. Your joystick seems to be sending noise to the plane. The autopilot will not work if there are any inputs on the stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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