Hi Simmers,

New to the 727 crew. I've been looking at this forum for tips and you have helped me. I found a main battery switch at the top of the Flight Engineer panel and I read a post about using Shift+m to activate avionics. They worked and I got the plane started and all the gauges working, I made my plan, got approval, taxied and took off.

Once airborne I brought up the 2d AP popup and when I reached cruising alt I tried to set Alt hold and Heading hold. No luck. I saw a tutorial video on youtube on using the A/P and that you needed to engage the Ail and Elev holds after you are at alt and wings are level and so I did. Then I hit ALt hold and it worked great. I then made sure my heading bug was correct and I hit Heading hold, it also worked well. To turn I deactivated the Ail hold so I could turn and deselected Alt hold so I could rise or fall.

I know I have lots to learn but had fun with what I did and I got to my destination. I hope my experience will help someone else figure out how they can use the A/P.

I should add I am using   Win7x64, i5, GTX 285  FSX gold,

good flights, Cal