Autopilot Induced Roll

[Tinkickef]

(Release Version).

 

May well be something I am doing wrong, I only just passed the two hour mark in the F14, most of that running through jester assisted starts and can barely operate any systems with any confidence yet.

 

Cruising along, engage autopilot, engage alt hold and engage heading hold. The aircraft starts wallowing from side to side in roll, at ever increasing angles.

 

Looking at the rudder indicator dial, it seems as if it is the rudders inducing some type of "PIO" as they deflect ever more.

 

Jumping in the rear cockpit does the same with iceman in control. He loses complete control of the aircraft in about thirty seconds.

 

Stab Aug switches all on.

 

It is very reminiscent of the A10C autopilot uncommanded roll bug from a few years ago.

 

 

Edit. Should mention that when the instruments are reporting rudder deflections, the rudder pedals themselves are not moving. Originally thought it might be some kind of dead zone problem with my pedals, but I guess not.

 

 

Edit 2. It appears to be something to do with Jester, the assisted start and the INS. I thought during the assisted start that Jester would get his own house in order. Apparently not. After running through the cold start tutorial again and slaving my HSD to Jesters INS to see if had aligned; I found that Jester was not aligning the INS and I had to jump into the rear cockpit to start the alignment manually, then go back again to switch the NAV mode to INS.

 

Autopilot, although it is a blunt instrument and not the scalpel that the Hornet possesses. at least behaved itself enough to not try to kill me.

Edited April 14, 2019 by Tinkickef