I have flown many successful ILS approaches, without it ever doing what yours did. I usually let the Autopilot fly the ILS until I reach DH (200 feet), then I turn the Autopilot OFF and land manually.

Mark

Ah! Thanks. Thats done it, I thought it was a marker beackon switch. Flew one just now very well. Love this plane!

cornell wrote on Jun 1^st, 2012 at 5:22am:


Toggle switch just above the Outer Marker light on the Pilot's main instrument panel.

Phill

The autopilot for me was not doing a good capture on either Localizer or regular VOR.  It would tend to overshoot the centerline and come back on course.  This wa a known "feature" for several FS versions.  I had some mods that I tried and now it works perfect for me.  

Here's the AUTPILOT section of the aircraft.cfg file.  Each line that is modified below has the old value indicated.  Try this if you like but make sure to back up the original first.

Also note that the max bank angle was 30,25,20,15,10 but that was only useful for the default 737-800 which has a switch to select the max bank angle.  I chose 25 and it seems to be perfect. The changes should be noted in RED.

autopilot_available=1
flight_director_available=1
default_vertical_speed=1800
autothrottle_available=1
autothrottle_arming_required=1
autothrottle_max_rpm = 90
autothrottle_takeoff_ga=1
pitch_takeoff_ga = 8
max_pitch=10.0
max_pitch_acceleration=1.0
max_pitch_velocity_lo_alt=2.0
max_pitch_velocity_hi_alt=1.5
max_pitch_velocity_lo_alt_breakpoint=20000.0
max_pitch_velocity_hi_alt_breakpoint=28000.0
max_bank=25                  //was 30,25,20,15,10
max_bank_acceleration=1.8
max_bank_velocity=3.00
max_throttle_rate=0.10
nav_proportional_control=17.00   //was 12.00
nav_integrator_control=0.01      //was 0.25
nav_derivative_control=0.00
nav_integrator_boundary=2.50
nav_derivative_boundary=0.35     //was 0.00
gs_proportional_control=25.0
gs_integrator_control=0.53
gs_derivative_control=0.00
gs_integrator_boundary=0.70
gs_derivative_boundary=0.00
yaw_damper_gain=1.0

As in all updates/tweaks, YMMV.  

Phill

Markoz wrote on Jun 5^th, 2012 at 4:50pm:


I don't believer there is a way to select the banik angle in the CS732.  I could be wrong, but it felt like it was defaulting to a lower value.  Perhaps that particular parameter is OK using either but when I tried several ILS captures and several VOR captures, it worked really good for me using 25. 

If you know how you can select the bank angle from the cockpit, let me know. However, even in the 737-800 I always left the selector on 30.

Thanks,
Phill

Hello All,

I didn't want to start a new topic since my question is related to APP.
Just curious if B737-200 has autothrottle feature?
My assumption is not as I saw many references to manual throttle adjustments in "Normal Procedures".
In case I'm wrong, could you please let me know how to engage it?
I saw EPR selector and IAS cursor selectors but those are just targets and they do not influence the throttle I guess.

Thanks in advance.

Crank wrote on Jun 9^th, 2012 at 2:13am:

You can do it yourself if you want to. I did. But I have gone back to the way it was originally done by Captain Sim, because the A/T was unrealistic.

Mark