Hi
I think FSC command the AP by heading. Try to set your AP to HDG and see if it works.

Save the flight to Flight Sim X format (Documents\Flight Simulator X files). Load the flight with the 707 AFTER the 707 flight has already been started, because sometimes the default dpl.PLN (needed for the DNS to work) remains as the flight plan if I load the plan before I have started the flight from Free Flight. Connect FSC 8.6 GPS to FSX (I hide the GPS window). The 707 will follow the flight plan, you will hear the sounds as the 707 passes the waypoints in the plan. I have found that the FSC X (8.6) and FSC 9 GPS does not work on all payware aircraft. As far as I can remember, it does work on all the default FSX aircraft that have an autopilot.

Hope this helps.

Mark

I have just been through the same situation with FSC and CS707.

The heading  command from FSC doesn't seem to work with CS707, which is a pity. However if you save the FSC flight plan to your "Flight Simulator X Files" in Documents then you can load it into your CS707 flight before take off and the Autopilot will follow if in the NAV position.

Mark and Patrick,
   Ok it works!!.....thanx for your help.....but what a pain in the drain....I also see that the goto in fsc does not work....but that is a minor problem

thanx again

Ed

would it somehow be possible to disable the 707 autopilot and introduce the default autopilot from fsx?  does that only mean to disable the 707 autopilot cauges and insert the default?  ( ok looks bad but for a newbie might be able to fly the aircraft with FSC)

i could use some help with that as i am not that experienced with cfg files

well any help is appriciated you could send it directly to l_schuiling@hotmail.com if that is more convinient for you

you are too kind.

i hope to learn a thing or two in the process though.  i email CS support with same question  but now answer.  and i cant inmagine that i am the only one who would like to have the FSC autoheading option with the 707

Hi guys.

Here is a report on how it's going.

1. I removed the CS707 A/P 2D panel.
2. Replaced it with the MSFS Bendix-King Radio AP.
3. It works well for turning the A/P ON and OFF. So does the (default) Z key!
4. I can only use the following buttons on the Bendix-King AP. AP, ALT, UP and DN.
5. Altitude Hold works well. The default VS is + or - 100 fpm, but you can increase the value for climb and descent by editing the default VS in the aircraft.cfg. I can only increase/decrease the Altitude Hold in 1000 foot intervals.
6. To get the HDG button to turn on, I have to use the 3D Autopilot Mode Selector knob to HDG.
7. To get the NAV button to turn on, I have to use the 3D Autopilot Mode Selector knob to NAV and it follows the GPS flight plan ONLY.
8. To get the APR button to turn on, I have to use the 3D Autopilot Mode Selector knob to GS AUTO or GS MAN.
9. NAV button on the Bendix-King AP follows the VOR/LOC plan when you select VOR LOC on the 3D Autopiot Mode Select Switch.

No matter how much looking I do, I can't seem to kick the CS A/P out of the plane so that the . I can get the 707 2D AP out, but not the 3D VC AP out. The 2D AP was easy to deal with, but the 3D A/P is alluding me. The 2D AP uses the Captain_Sim.x707.P11 - P11_ap, but there is no mention of this gauge in any of the [VCockpit.xx]'s. I am presently looking through all the panel CAB files looking for it, but it could take a while as I have look at all the BMPs to (hopefully) find the 3D A/P.

UPDATE Jan 6^th, 2011 at 10:36am. I have been messing around with this for a quite a while now and I can't find the 3D A/P for the 707. It's possible that it is coded into the model.
That said. The Autopilot works well as long as you follow what I said above. I did have an interest experience when I used GS MAN when the plane lost the Glide Slope and climb so steeply that it stalled and crashed. I don't know if it will do this all the time though. Approach works fine on GS AUTO. So it's good to go.

@Sanal. It performs quite well. I think that it IS a bit easier. My preference is to use the 707 A/P and not the MSFS default Bendix-King. I'm going to have a look at some of the other Autopilots from the default B747, B737 and A321, to see if they are better. I think I will still run into the same problems as I have already mentioned, but I'll let you know.

Mark

With everything I have done so far. I don't think that you will be able to use FSC as an Autopilot for the 707. The important Heading, VOR (NAV) and Approach modes are control via the 3D VC A/P. Nothing I have tried changes that. You can use either the Bendix-King Radio A/P, B737-800 or Airbus A321 A/P. The B747-400 only uses the numerals for the A/P on the VC panel texture and so can't be used in an easy manner.

Mark