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Improvement project for the MSFS default G36.
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Autopilot Breaks when Slowing Down to a Stall in maintaining altitude #50

Open kenster1488 opened 4 years ago

kenster1488 commented 4 years ago

Interesting bug with the G36 autopilot: If you get icing and the autopilot starts struggling to maintain altitude (like if you AFK - I tend to AFK quite a bit) and it ends up using full 21 degrees of pitch trim, with a stall, the autopilot breaks and will pull you up even if you disable and re-enable without any altitude and navigation parameters (LVL only)

It’s easily reproduced - let your Bonanza get ice, or otherwise too slow for level flight, have the autopilot struggle to maintain altitude up until it uses all the pitch trim, have the plane stall, and voila, autopilot is broken. It will keep trying to use full up pitch trim even when disabled and re-enabled, and you have to hand-fly the rest of the flight, or land when most practical and restart the flight at the airport you landed at to resume your leg

Sorry, I copy-pasted from my post in MSFS Forums, didn't feel like re-wording as that's pretty much what happens.

kenster1488 commented 4 years ago

Nevermind, the solution Raynen posted is working: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/g36-fixes-and-improvements-update-30-09/216094/984?u=k3nstr1092

Although I'm not sure if that's the real AP's behavior, I guess I'll leave the issue open anyways.