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707 Captain >> 707 Captain >> Newbe help. Cant rotate autopilot button. https://www.captainsim.org/forum/csf.pl?num=1332854018 Message started by eddie123 on Mar 27^th, 2012 at 1:13pm

Title: Newbe help. Cant rotate autopilot button.
Post by eddie123 on Mar 27^th, 2012 at 1:13pm

Hi.
Just purchased this.
How on earth do you operated the AP selector.
You put mouse over clickspot and it does nothing. Stuck on MAN

Eddie

Title: Re: Newbe help. Cant rotate autopilot button.
Post by LOU on Mar 27^th, 2012 at 2:13pm

Eddie,

Welcome to the best flying plane in the fleet!
OK, so I'm prejudice. �:P

The 707 auto pilot is much nicer to use in 2D pop-up.
Select SHIFT+5 to get the pop-up. You can place the 2D autopilot anywhere you like as you fly around.

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8193/707auto.png

When you mouse over the turn knob you will get a - sign on the left side and a + sign on the right as well as a message seen in the capture above. That is the way to turn the autopilot. For me personally, I use the autopilot in HDG select only since it is a lot easier.

The pitch works the same way as the roll. Mouse over the pitch wheel and see what you get.

Lou

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Title: Re: Newbe help. Cant rotate autopilot button.
Post by eddie123 on Mar 27^th, 2012 at 10:59pm

Many thanks for your reply.
This is my first day, so be gentle,

I can turn the big pitch wheel, as in your screen shot, my problem is the selector that switches from NAV, HDG,MAN, LOC VOR, GS AUTO, GS MAN.
The + and - symbols show when I nput my mouse over it, I get the "click" sound, but it will not move.

Am I missing something?

Eddie :-?

Title: Re: Newbe help. Cant rotate autopilot button.
Post by LOU on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 1:07am

Eddie... did you turn the autopilot switch on?

When you move the autopilot switch (yellow arrow) from OFF to AUTOPILOT then you can place you mouse over the mode selector and as you see the left side gets a - (minus) and the right side gets a +.

Go fly!

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/8193/707auto.png

Lou

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Title: Re: Newbe help. Cant rotate autopilot button.
Post by eddie123 on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 8:17am

LOU wrote on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 1:07am:

You have to turn the auto pilot on FIRST?
Oh ****. :-[
Will give it a go and get back to you.
Thankyou.

Gone through the manuals, but cant find a tutorial.
Even looked on youtube for an FSX one.
Nowt.

Cheers
Eddie

Title: Re: Newbe help. Cant rotate autopilot button.
Post by Jettrader on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 8:37am

also very important: the turn wheel must be centered to select a different Mode than MAN (as far as I remember)

Title: Re: Newbe help. Cant rotate autopilot button.
Post by Markoz on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 9:14am

eddie123 wrote on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 8:17am:

Gone through the manuals, but cant find a tutorial.
Even looked on youtube for an FSX one.

There isn't a tutorial in the manual.
I did think of doing a tutorial so others could get started, but I just got lazy and never did it. I would get in to start a Tutorial, but would end up doing a flight and not a Tutorial.

Mark

Title: Re: Newbe help. Cant rotate autopilot button.
Post by eddie123 on Mar 29^th, 2012 at 8:31am

eddie123 wrote on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 8:17am:

LOU wrote on Mar 28^th, 2012 at 1:07am:

You have to turn the auto pilot on FIRST?
Oh ****. �:-[
Will give it a go and get back to you.
Thankyou.

Gone through the manuals, but cant find a tutorial.
Even looked on youtube for an FSX one.
Nowt.

Cheers
Eddie

It worked. :D