The "autopilot doesn't work" vs "the autopilot works" argument will never die.

The correct answer is: the autopilot works.  How do I know this?  Because it works for me.  Things that don't work because they are defective don't work period, for everyone.  I don't how many times I have seen this autopilot canard, and, while I feel for people who are frustrated, you have to look to your system, not something broken in the Captain Sim product.

I think everyone who has the autopilot not working issue should submit everything systems, everything they have running -- Active Sky, and everything -- and let's try to figure out the common denominator.  Autopilot is uncommonly accurate in Captain Sim products.

GUYS GUYS

i have a solution.

Basically on my testing, i found that if i windowed it, and then had applications running, and then went back to full screen,

it would suddenly happen on me!

So,, i open task manager, ctrl+alt+del, and see whats taking up the most resources.

to my surprise, even though i nuts it down, AVG anti virus was still somehow running.

i uninstalled it, and i also turn off windows vista sidebar before a captain sim flight...


its basically to do with resources,, shut down as many apps as u can, i did, and it works..

p.s btw i have an extremely powerful PC, so its not that it cant handle it, CS aircraft just cant handle it

Hope this helps!!

if soo, would love to hear about it

All the best

Alex

Tim Capps wrote on Jul 13^th, 2009 at 5:47am:


Oh man, remind me never to hire you as a software developer or beta tester �

The autopilot works perfectly for me... mostly!
Sometimes though, it gets a life of its own, including the behavior described in this thread. This has ruined many flights. The bird can go from rock solid to doing confusing infinte circles and other strange things in no time.

The good thing is, I just discovered what was causing this for me.
My yoke and pedals are not completely stable. Sometimes when returned to the neutral position they would not really be neutral (the Saitek users know what I mean �) so instead they would start fighting with the autopilot. After a while, bad things start to happen. I'm using the autopilot in many other airplanes on a regular basis and this issue never shows up in them so perhaps the CS767 is more sensitive than other airplanes.

In short, if you're sometimes having weird problems with the autopilot, it's definitely worth checking out your input controls. FSUIPC is really helpful for this. Simply calibrating might help. If the controls are crappy like mine though and don't return to the exact same neutral position every time, increasing the deadzone might be the only way.

Gentlemen,

I think we should follow Mr. C's suggestion and keep this a friendly thread but that IS my opinion only.

I am copying one of my threads  from the 'rolling/rocking' thread in this forum JUST to offer a solution that MAY work for some:

Hi all,

While I don't recomend changing the 767-200 files unless you know what you are doing, I thought I'd share what I did:

I used the ORIGINAL 767-200 cfg file with the 767 Freighter air file renamed as required and guess what.

Spoilers work as they should(armed/auto deployment) and the 200 is as rock steady as the Freighter. Tested on ILS to 08L at KATL.

So, my conclusion: there is something amiss in the 200 air file but the fix, for me, was easy.

All my testing was necessary at the time but I believe now not necessary if you have the Freighter and BACKUP the 200 air files before copying the F air file and renaming.

Thought this was an interesting find. I don't have the 300 but suspect it will work as well.

Jack S.

try installing another version of FSUIPC. (free version is good enough)
I always have similar problems with the included FSUIPC versions.

  Travis,


  Take a look at this from youtube.  He uses 737 fmc and it comes in 4 parts.  This guy is good and the basic to use the FMS are the same in CS


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfclBlXWB9E

Hey!  I tried the youtube video that you recommended, but I still can not get the autopilot to engage.  Also, upon takeoff my 767 tries to go into an almost vertical climb until it stalls. 

Anyone else running into this problem?

travis wrote on Feb 16^th, 2010 at 10:24pm:





Elevator trim set ?