BrzI wrote on Dec 20^th, 2014 at 9:32am:

Turning on your Flight Director after engaging the autopilot should stop this from happening.

Sorry, but I have to ask .... Have you trimmed the 727 to maintain a climb before you turn the Autopilot ON?

NOTE. The trim for the 727 is very sensitive. I tap the trim up/trim down buttons on my joystick or the changes are too great.

Are you using Acceleration? I've read other have had issues with the 727 autopilot if it's not installed.

Well....I have figured out what works for me. Not sure if this is how it should work for everybody else so please keep that in mind.

727-100/200 loadout
75% passengers
60% cargo (positions 1,3 and 5 in front/rear bays)
Takeoff fuel:
30/30/30 to 70/30/70 (this is where I am at usually)
Start flight.
Reload aircraft (to get sounds). Do not want to use the 707 fix.
Set altitude
Initialize V-One gauges (no other mods)
Set flaps to 5 or 15 degrees

The odd part : I do not touch the flight director.

Release brakes, apply full throttle.
Rotate per schedule.
After rotation use the trim controls to maintain a pitch of 15 degrees maximum. Once the pitch is stable (ie. requires no more input) I engage A/P.
Bingo  . . . no more diving on A/P engagement.

My conclusion :

either:
I am doing something wrong
or
the flight director itself or it's connection to the A/P is buggy.

This will work for me. YMMV.

Curious to hear what other people are seeing.

Once again the 737-100 F/D and A/P work just fine.

Thanks

fsxpaul wrote on Dec 26^th, 2014 at 2:44pm:


BrzI wrote on Dec 31^st, 2014 at 9:13pm:


I believe that's exactly what I stated in my post.
The flight director will not affect the AP after it has been engaged.

Hmm.... you are adjusting the Flight Director bars with autopilot controls...

That does not make sense...but I will definitely try it....

Yep, I am using acceleration.

It is at times like these that I am happy I only buy from CS when they have a sale - never know if they have a finished product or not. You would think that with v2.4 the sound issue would have been ironed out. But no, still need to reload and edit sound.ini to get sounds in cockpit.

I still remember the five years it took them to finish off the FS9 757.

To give them credit - their FS2002/4 727 was excellent - and finished off in an acceptable time frame.

BrzI wrote on Jan 4^th, 2015 at 9:45pm:


The thin grey line was my reference indicator for ease of explanation.

The 'mustache' bar in the second image is approximately 4° which does not correlate to the 9° pitch attitude on take-off.

Appears to be a 5° discrepancy.