I sent a request to resend the Block F file, maybe the file is corrupt or something.

The big white button, the master auto pilot button, yes I have tried that, I just can't get the dam thing to work no matter what mode I try, when I hit control Z I can't change heading, but nothing else can be adjusted and the other functions are inop.

Hi Dude,

 I just did a quick test flight and tried to engage the auto pilot after take off  

Quick guess - autopilot didn�t work because irs wasn�t aligned before. autopilot needs irs alignment to work.

Try again with your irs properly aligned and report in, please �

Regards,
Werner

Hey, I just downloaded the 757 pro pack and love it. The only problem is that the autopilot doesn't work. I would push the heading hold switch and nothing would happen and when I pushed the autopilot engage switch, nothing happened. The lights on the buttons won't light up. Also the LNAV and the VNAV don't work either. I don't know if I'm missing a step in turning on the autopilot or somethings wrong. Thanks for the help.

Yes, make sure you properly set your IRS before leaving the apron.  Nothing will work right (like the real thing) without that set.
My autopilot works absolutely perfect.  I have done several full CATIII auto lands with all three CMD lights on, LAND 3 illuminated on the AUTOLAND STATUS Annunciator and full FLARE engaged. 
If I'm not having any problems with it, then there can't be anything wrong with that feature of the software.  It must be something else.

Hi,

first and not ment to be ironic - by studying the flight manual �

second, by looking into this forum, as this theme has been explained quite often before �

Apart from that and as a quick resolve, you bring power to your plane and then look up at the overhead panel. In the left (or first) vertical row, there on the upper left corner you can see a subpanel with three round irs setup switches, a few status lights , a numpad and a few other items.

Now, look at those irs setup switches - they have a few named positions. After "off" comes "align". Now bring all three of them into the "align" position and you will see them status lights start flashing. OK, wait for a while and they will go out. If so, set the status switch to "NAV".

Well done, buddy, you have just done your first IRS alignment �

Regards,
Werner

I'm having the exact same problem.  I'm an experienced sim pilot and used to FMC/CDU programming, IRS alignment is fine and all required data is being entered into the CDU but nothing is working??  When I engage LNAV or VNAV - no response at all.  If I engage heading select, it does not respond and the climb rate window remains blank all of the time when trying to select a manual climb rate.  Very frustrating - I've read the manuals more than I care to mention and at the moment stuck for ideas as to what to try next!!!

Hi

Lnav/Vnav loc/app alt/hdg all working fine for me.

Mark

FSX sp2 vista 32bit

It simply isn't working.  I'm a very experienced sim pilot with over 12 years flying behind me and I'm very used to flying add-ons with more complex FMC operations.  I've worked through the manuals, in case I was missing something, but once programmed and up in the air, nothing happens when I engage the autopilot.  Neither LNAV or VNAV have any effect on the flightpath and if I try to set a manual climb rate the window is just blank and again, no response.  I've uninstalled and re-installed twice, with the same results.  I don't believe I've missed anything but if anyone has had a similar problem and knows how to solve it, it would be appreciated.

I'm having the same trouble.  The autopilot is completely useless no matter what i do.  I have many hours in the another company 767 and pmdg737/747 aircraft and have never ran into these problems.

When in flight (climbing, cruising, descending) my aircraft gets very "wabbly". It shakes only on its X axis...but consistantly. If i disengage the autopilot and re-engage it, the problem still persists. Thanks for your help.
Andrew

�Hi guys, I'm having problems with AP, everything works fine until I try to disconect de AP, to make eighter a manual landing or flight, it works fine but once I conect it, I'm not able to disconect it, I tried everything , the white disengage bar, "z" key, a button assingment in on the joystick, uninstall a reinstall, redownload and reinstall the whole software. Nothing works. Always stays conected. Help, please!!!

Having the EXACT problem. I only use the 2D model for performance reasons. I try disconnecting it on the autopilot panel and nothing happens. I also hit Z and nothing happens.   

And I'm using strictly the 2d panel.  I need the heading to comply with the ATC in the after takeoff phase and when gettin my ILS Vectors on approach, I can handfly but this hinders my ability to set my instruments.

So let's say after touchdown you want to disengage it? Is the disengagebar not working?
You can also try to push "Z"

Kind Regards,
Martijn

My Ap works just fine..at least the LNAV and VNAV. Just made a flight LEZL-LFLL and smooth as silk...but for the HDG switch. Once radar contact started vectoring for approach, I switched from LNAV to HDG, but nothing happened at all. HDG lock button lights up, but despite moving the heading knob, the plane did nothing, so full manual approach and no ILS landing...Am I doing something wrong??? I need my plane respond to the headings!

Thanks!

cueceleches wrote on Aug 1^st, 2008 at 11:41am:


To get the heading to function you have to press the heading toggle button with a RIGHT mouse click.

Has anyone been succesful at solving the autopilot disengage problem in 2D Mode?  I haven't (it only works right in VC mode) and I filled out a support ticket to captain sim which was cancelled without a fix.  I can only assume that I have missed something simple or it will be fixed with the next SP.  Anyone have any thoughts - I really need only 2D for performance reasons.  Any help or insights would be most appreciated!

I bought the last 757 update and after the instalation the aut. pilot does not work, why ?
And where is the pedestal like the picture ?
http://www.captainsim.com/cgi-bin/imgview.pl?i=/products/b757/img/screenshots/2d...

Hi, Im new to this kinda autopilots stuff, although i have used many addons since i first started playing about  4 years ago, i havnt come across an autopilot this detailed.

I cant seem to engage the altitude hold and vertical climb buttons and the auto pilots dont seem to work at all as there are no lights when i engage the autopilot, i read the other post and could anyone please in detail explain how to do the Irs alighnment and such. I read the manual and it was quite confusing.


Thanks.

Please do not use default keys for the AP ops, but its custom controls only.
We are working on abilily to assigne hot key commands to important things like the MCU in the 4.2

rharris wrote on Jul 7^th, 2008 at 8:20am:


hi all.i bought the propack from 2 days,its very great,buti have a proplem with autopilot. it is that i cant disngage auto pilot ? i hit the master bar,i hit the cmd !it dosent disngage ! it happend when i wanted to disngage the ap to do a manual landing but i cant so the autoland take all the fun from me and did an autoland ! and by the way the autoland is very smooth....so does anyone know who to disngage this stupid autopilot ??....and yeah you must put the irs in align mode for 10 minutes theres a number in the irs panel says 10 this is the minutes ! and before the 10 min you cant engage vnav or lnav,so after the 10 min you can but dont move the airplane at all guys this for pepole who dont understand IRS correct

I've exactly the same problem world00leader

Hi all.
About the dude who was saying ALT HOLD is flashing for 0.5 sec when he switch the FD,
loool thats because the IRS are still in align mode and you must wait 10min and then switch the FD...
the dude that cant disngange the autopilot 
i found a temporerley soultion,
switch the IRS off and autopilot will disngage

I managed to finally get Block F, but how do I turn on the autopilot systems, and whenever I move my throttle up, my power goes up, and then back down, what can I do to fix this???


Spenser

I am running 4.2 and still cannot get my AP to disconnect.  Anyone else having this issue in 4.2?

Eric

Has anyone found a solution to the autopilot connect error???

Hello all,

Bought the 757 for fs9 and fsx a few day's ago and �i.m.o. they are both pure marvellous add-ons.
Then the AP:
In fs9 there is no problem with desengaging at all.
In fsx there is a desengaging problem indeed but with a trick I get it desengaged ok.

There are 2 way's to desengage:
- with the big "white desengage key" (when I do that I get no sound and no warning)
- wit the "z" key (when I do that I get a sound and a warning)

In both cases I do the following: I take care, that the plane is flying steady and straight (so when desengaging it will not start a curve or something).
After desengaging (the plane followes it's path) and there is no hand flying possible; I wait some seconds (sometimes 2 seconds, sometimes 10 seconds) and I make small movements with my yoke; after these seconds ................ �I suddenly see that the yoke reacts ............... and the "hand flying" is again there.
Have tried a 100 times and it alway's functioned this way.

Ok, it is not how it's mentioned to work I think but for the time being you can manage this way �.

Willem

(have the unregistered FSUIPC 4.40 �14 november 2008)

Did you try to disable the F/D switch on MCP panel while disengaging autopilot?

Frentz �

I found an older FSUIPC.dll file (version 4.2) and replaced my version 4.4. The autopilot now disengages normally. Life is good. 

Jack

Hello everyone... i have a question about the autopilot, and hope someone that really understand about the real plane procedure answers me

About the autopilot... i never had any problem with it.. even before the update... Fact is that if you do load the plane in cold and dark mode, and if you perform all the maneuvers in it's correct order (IRS alignment e.t.c.. and if you use your mouse to handle the autopilot (unfortunately it seems we cannot key path this) everything will work 100%

My question is... it seems that when i do everything correctly as mentioned above, except filling the FMC with some Flight plan, the autopilot doesn�t works at all?    is this real? a real 757 will need it's FMC programmed in order to make the autopilot functional?

Thanks in advance!

When you change the heading put the cursor on the heading knob and right click, keep one thing in mind but the most of the addon aircraft work differently then the default or any lite addon but its still easy

Bob Markey wrote on Feb 4^th, 2009 at 9:54pm:


Hi Bob,

Thanks for yur comments. I didn�t know that there were 2 modes for selecting heading. Nevertheless, I gess something is going wrong because once I select the hold mode I can`t disconect from it unless I switch FD off or disconnect AP. I read the manual but didn�t find how to work with it.

Could you give me the sequence how to select one mode or the other in order to check if it is working properly?

Many Thanks ,

Roland

Hi Bob,

Many thanks for your comments. It helped me to know that there was a click spot somewere to command the heading mode. This was my trouble. I found it and now it works perfect.

I understand now how it works and it has its logical like the real thing.

What I can tell you is that I am in love with this simulator. It is extraordinary in every aspect, from the VC definition / resolution (it's amazing) unitil the complexity of every element and its combination with the rest.

I could make a couple of flights and I have enjoyed it very much.

Regarding autopilot, I didn't have the problem others have about the disconnection. If you proceed desconecting first the autopilot with the disconnect button and then disconnect the FD, you can get the hole control of the plane.

Nice flights and thanks again !!

Roland

Hallo!!!
I've got a question. How could i start the autopilot-functions (HDG, ALT, V/S, CMD 1,2,3)?
I've tried all knobs but nothing happend. The only thing wich works is the SPD knob, and the EPR knob. �

Thank you very much
Airforce one

Thank you very much for this fast answer. Now the autopilot is running normaly!!!

Thank you
Airforce one

Right click the center of the button.

I need a little help with the autopilot function. I have no problem loading the FMC and IRS, and I am able to get the autopilot to function normally and fly an entire flight plan with the LNAV and VNAV functions. However, I can't seem to get the autopilot to do a simple task such as heading or altitude deviations.

For instance, I am cruising and receive a descent from ATC and a heading to initiate my approach. I input these into the autopilot and...nothing. So I turn the autopilot off, make the deviations myself and turn the autopilot back on and it just wants to go back to original heading and altitude. This has become extremely frustrating.

Does anyone know of any detailed manual for use of the autopilot, or any other answers to solve this issue? All I need to know is how to get the autopilot to follow my simple requests for deviations from the FMC.

P.S. Turning the LNAV and VNAV switches off only seem to disable the autopilot completely?

I have tried everything to get the AP function to work. I have set the IRS switches to align, waited until the lights extinguished and put them to NAV.

I have set all the panel exactly as Bob described in his youtube vids. Set the FMC as per the instructions in the stickied tutorial and still it wont work. I have also read all 5 manuals.

It wont auto take off. It wont follow the fmc when I hit LNAV and VNAV and I cant change heading when not using fmc (and I know about right clicking the knob). It wont even hold altitude, just climbs and climbs.

I am using it in FSX SP2 and 32bit vista and have also reinstalled twice.

Rob

I have had the best success by hitting the middle CMD button.  Not sure why, but this works for me.  There should be 3 CMD buttong on the AP module.  The middle button is the one you want.  Good luck

Do you have a flight plan inserted in the CDU?

If so, enter an altitude on the cockpit, press CMD, selecting L-Nav will allow the autopilot to follow the plan. Switch on the flight director, V-Nav for auto speed, or alternativley enter your own speed. Make sure the auto throttle is on, a/t switch.

autoland engages automatically once you're on the localizer and have intercepted the glide slope in the APPR AP mode.

The AutoLand indicator will light up green with LAND2 or LAND3 depending on the approach category.

Must be Cat II/III ILS though, AutoLand cannot function without the glide slope signal.

It seems that this a software bug that needs to be corrected. Perhaps someone at CS can send an update?
JNR
USA

Hi,
  When I engage the speed on the 757 to say 250 on the autopilot panel, the speed will go to about 294 and stay there. then I accidentally moved the speed way up because I wasnt paying attention, then I moved it back to 250 and then the speed was 398. 220 was 354. I do not know what to do. Thanks

anything? I do not mess with the FMC, only thing I do is put in the IRS position. Today i had it set at 235 and it went right past that to 248-250 before it pulled back the throttle.

how do you post a picture on here?

rob wrote on Apr 19^th, 2009 at 10:21pm:


I have EXACTLY the same problem.. �only difference is im using FSX Acceleration, Vista 64bit. and the 4.3 757 series

sent numerous support tickets to captain sim support,
ive either been told to search for numerous KB references and/ or been told to read the manuals, (which i have read, numerous times)

and it STILL wont work?

Possible ideas for it not working;
FSUIPC (im using the one that is IN the 4.3 version of the 757 supplied by CS)
Sim connect (works wine with all the other A/C i have)

Zakk

nhraracer90 wrote on Jul 21^st, 2009 at 2:30am:


Not "messing with the FMC" is probably the source of your problem. Entering just your initial IRS position is not enough - you must enter additional information during your pre-flight setup, or the engine performance management system and autothrottle will not work properly.

At a minimum, you need to enter your departure and destination airports, and probably at least one waypoint linking them together - your departure airport takeoff runway, takeoff flap setting, your zero fuel weight, intended cruise altitude and (possibly) cost factor. Without that preliminary information the FMS cannot calculate engine EPR settings for takeoff, climb and cruise, which would most likely render your autothrottle inoperative - even if the A/T switch is "on".

This aircraft isn't bug-free, but I can tell you from personal experience that the speed management functions DO work very well... IF the preliminary FMS programming is done before takeoff. You really do need to read and follow the procedures in the manual if you want the 757 to work properly, which is why CS keeps telling you do so when you submit trouble tickets.

In a real 757, the autopilot's basic heading and altitude hold functions will still work if the FMS fails - but the autothrottle definitely will NOT.

Another user here as produced some very good video tutorials for setting up the aircraft and programming the FMS before flight. The links are posted elsewhere in the forum.

Another thing to check: go to the FSX "aircraft" menu, then select the "realism" sub-menu. be sure that FSX is set up to display "indicated airspeed" and NOT "true airspeed" - otherwise you would definitely see overspeed problems, which will get more and more serious as your altitude increases.

nhraracer90 wrote on Jul 25^th, 2009 at 1:14am:


Glad it helped! Always best to use indicated airspeed for any FSX add-on - otherwise all kinds of overspeed problems will arise.

Jim Barrett

Yes, I have experienced this once.

For a coincidence I had to do a full FSX reinstall. Since then, I had made a dozen flyes and it not happened again.

Regards

Schmid

Hello, Did you watched the two available totorials?

Fellow Forum Members, I'm new to your site but have had many years of MSFS hours through all the previous iterations. I purchased 757 Captain from Captainsim/Just Flight and I can't figure out AutoPilot. Could someone please direct me to the proper sequence inwhich the various switches are turned on and what data must be input. For example, can I change my heading just by changing the values on the heading indicator switch and if so what other sequence of switches are required to allow this to happen. I know these are probibly stupid questions, forgive me but the manual just doesn't seem to provide the depth. Thank you

Xavier, Thank you for your prompt assistance. I have viewed all 4Vids and will review again as it's obvious my retention level needs improvement. I hope you don't mind if I contact you again with a question or two as i've already read a few of your responses in the forum and it's clear to me you know your 75.  Sincerely, Chuck D.

Xavier, On startup I switch the 3 IRS Knobs to Align and they light up, I then start turning on other switches from the OH view, the Align lights go out in approx. 30 sec. I then switch the 3 knobs to NAV and the 3 Align lights  start blinking the word Align. They never stop blinking throughout the flight. Is this normal? Thanks