X-Plane Junkies Posted May 10, 2011 Report Posted May 10, 2011 I would like to say I am a good reader... I have walked through the Tutorial 5 times through all the way to take off and everything is great until I hit the Auto Pilot Engage button and the plane noses down, just like the Tutorial warns you about. What am I missing? I can't go anymore sentence by sentence... is XP 9.67 the issue or something else? If it helps, I am on a 2.8 i7 iMac and no x737 installed. Thanks.Rizzo
Dispatch Posted May 10, 2011 Report Posted May 10, 2011 Hi Rizzo,did you do the weight and balance for trimming the pitch? I'm sure you checked the vertical speed and alt settings. Ref the x.Planes control settings, I've came to the conclusion to set the stability augmentation to 0% to prevent from any flattering around. Cheers.
X-Plane Junkies Posted May 10, 2011 Author Report Posted May 10, 2011 I set fuel, weight and stab trim as the tutorial instructs. I have not modified the stab augmentation in the XP settings from default.Rizzo
Dispatch Posted May 10, 2011 Report Posted May 10, 2011 Did you also check actual weather ref the baro setting? Basic question: when hitting the AP, at what FL are you then? Below, even or above the armed alt setting?
X-Plane Junkies Posted May 10, 2011 Author Report Posted May 10, 2011 I engage Autopilot about 1,500 feet above ground, little over 2,000 above sea level. I am below my target Alt which is set to 5,000 feet above sea level. I am quite sure I set the barometer correctly, I put in a manual weather setting of 30.22 just as the tutorial instructs. Rizzo
Dispatch Posted May 10, 2011 Report Posted May 10, 2011 mmmm I did not do the tutorial so far. But it should be something in basic, not related to the tutorial itself I guess. For me, the AP behaves all fine so far. Only good idea I have is the vertical speed setting to be positive. Do not mix up the direction in which the VS is set. Sorry, no more ideas so far ... :-\
Japo32 Posted May 10, 2011 Report Posted May 10, 2011 if you are in positive climb.. trimmed (that is very important.. so you are not pulling the jokes) and you set a positive vs then you shoudn't not go down. IF you do with speed mode.. you will more easily go down. At first stages also the plane where down for me... but I had the trick after a few take offs.
X-Plane Junkies Posted May 10, 2011 Author Report Posted May 10, 2011 Speed climb works a whole lot better... Thanks for the help there.Rizzo
Recommended Posts