How in the world do you get the 707's a/p to stop the "rocking" movement? Only on the roll axis. Pitch, and yaw seem fine.

Agreed, Tim. I'm only able to rock the lady with full load of any kind and well above 30.000ft where nobody would take her with a clear mind on that load.
The speed decreases and the rocking starts. Typical flight sim "too high for this GW" reaction. No bug or fault here, just a bad pilot.

Prevost1, we could use some more data on this then.

I second that, rocking seems to happen at high FLs and low speeds. it happenned to me twice, once with a heavy plane, and the second time with a fairly empty one (195,000 lbs @ FL370).

Cheers

Nico.

Maybe the autopilot is struggling to hold it straight because the 707 is too "fat" to be at that altitude. I know when mine did it, my airspeed was about 248 KIAS. I know I wasn't doing 250 KIAS because I was using full throttle the nose was slowly settling down as my speed crept up to and above 250 knots. It never got fully stable until I started my descent.

Mark

I was at a relatively low altitude and i believe it was pilot error. After a few minutes sorting things out, it subsided. By the way, how do you load or unload the fuel amount on the 707?

Markoz,

alt, aircraft, fuel, payload is the info I needed
Thanks again my friend

I will get that. Thanks

I have found that the 707 will rock gently if I slow down too much on approach too. I use it as a way of figuring out the Airspeed versus Weight versus Maximum Altitude when at cruise altitude and Airspeed versus Weight on Approach. In some ways you could refer to the gentle rocking left and right as a sort of Stall Warning. The info from the documents in the 707perf.zip file are vary somewhat from the Captain Sim 707, specifically Max Altitude at the stated weights. I fly about 1000 feet to 2000 feet below what those docs say and the rocking issue doesn't happen.

Mark