Anyone know why the AP does not work properly in FSX-SE?

Cannot seem to engage Heading Mode at all.

The Height/IAS switch seems to work, but not the Heading.

Heading mode is working for me in FSX-SE.

This is how I do it:

POWER button - ON
ENGAGE button- ON
TRACK button - ON
HEADING MODE SELECTOR - HDG

and it works just like it should. :)

Thanks. Mark. I'll try that.

Success, worked a treat!

Fantastic!! ;D

Now, if I could only lay my hands on one your excellent quick and easy Cold 'n Dark Start Guides, I'd be in Nirvana!!

EDIT:Luckily I found one of your C&D guides in a post c.2011

Colvale wrote on Mar 15^th, 2016 at 11:11pm:

Now, if I could only lay my hands on one your excellent quick and easy Cold 'n Dark Start Guides, I'd be in Nirvana!! EDIT:Luckily I found one of your C&D guides in a post c.2011

Glad you found one, but if there were any others, they would just be repeating the one you found. ;)

It was your guide, in fact, which like your 707 I find so simple to use. No faffing about. Straight to the crux of the start procedure.

Nice one.

One small question about the AP. How to I get the pitch up and pitch down to work properly so the climb rate or descent rate does not pitch up or down beyond 2000fpm? At the moment if I press the switch it does not respond in the direction I want to go up or down, or it goes silly degrees Pitch Up.

I just use the PITCH switch. It can sometimes be a little slow to respond, but it does respond.

Note. Both the 2D and VC switches are synchronised, so either of them works.

EDIT: Another trick that I often use is to press the HEIGHT (it's the Altitude Hold mode), then press CTRL+SHIFT+Z, then use the keyboard + and - keys to increse/decrease the HEIGHT altitude (you need to have Cockpit Tooltips enabled to see the altitude you want to set it to), then it will climb/descend at 1800 feet per minute.

Thanks for that/those tips.

Markoz wrote on Mar 18^th, 2016 at 11:36pm:

I just use the PITCH switch. It can sometimes be a little slow to respond, but it does respond.

slow to respond is no good when youre heading in to a mountain!

but mine does not even work at all...no matter how frantically i hit it...its a bad way to fly...

mllgrennman wrote on Jan 15^th, 2017 at 1:21pm:

Markoz wrote on Mar 18th, 2016 at 11:36pm: I just use the PITCH switch. It can sometimes be a little slow to respond, but it does respond. slow to respond is no good when youre heading in to a mountain! but mine does not even work at all...no matter how frantically i hit it...its a bad way to fly...

If I'm heading for a mountain, I turn the Autopilot off, and climb manually! I'll even try turning away if it's possible.