Has anyone tried to play with the autopilot settings so far?

My concern was the max bank angle it allowed (and used) on the larger scale turns. It was set to 30 degrees which not only gave the altitude hold feature a hard time (altitude loss and/or large hectic movements), but may also exceed what's nice for the passengers.

So reducing it to more suitable 25 degrees seems to help and does not cause much trouble for the actual turn rates needed for procedures. Always watch your speeds though, catching the ILS at 250kts will never really work with the old ship. A standard rate of turn (3°/s) will be achieved at 180kts with that 25 degree bank angle. Good speed for a 737. 

You can still manually command higher bank angles of course, it's just that the AP stops at 25°. keeping the altitude more stable and reducing the workload for himself. Passenger drinks may also like it, well, just keep it coordinated of course, which is easier at lower angles as the yaw damper works slowly.

Look for the line
[autopilot]
max_bank=30,25,20,15,10
in the aircraft.cfg.

Take away the '30' and receive
max_bank=25,20,15,10

Done.  If she's flying backwards now or always turns to the moon, you've mixed something up. Then use your backup! 

PS. The 727 and 707 also feature a 25° maximum right out of the box.

toelg wrote on May 23^rd, 2012 at 9:30am:


Best I could get was about 240 kts at a rate of 2800. BUT, after CS releases the next 1.x update I will probably rework the FDE (if needed) and this time I'll finish editing the descent speed before working out the level flight and climb drag/thrust. I made the mistake of trying to get that all done at the same time and it's impossible to edit the descent rate without messing up cruise/climb etc.