Manual entry of autopilot altitude?

[DaveSD]

Hey gang,

Is there a way to manually set an autopilot altitude, similar to how one can set the HSEL bearing?

Dave

Slo-Mo

[rob10]

Nope

[amalahama]

It's a fighter plane, not a 737

Best regards

[Tom Kazansky]

The Mirage 2000C allows you to select an altitude which is held when reached but it is not like OP requests neither.

 

[DaveSD]

8 hours ago, amalahama said:

It's a fighter plane, not a 737

Best regards

If I'd asked if it was possible to manually enter a heading, would you have said "It's a 737, not a fighter plane?"

I don't think my question was unreasonable, but I do think your answer was.

Best regards

Edited December 2, 2022 by DaveSD

[FrostLaufeyson]

10小时前，DaveSD说：

If I'd asked if it was possible to manually enter a heading, would you have said "It's a 737, not a fighter plane?"

I don't think my question was unreasonable, but I do think your answer was.

Best regards

 

I remember that 18E in mfs2020 seems to have relevant settings of cruise altitude in the UFC panel.

But at that time, I was trying to teach a friend who had never flown a plane with the knowledge of 18C. So I didn't go deep into it.

Anyway, the 18C in DCS didn't have such ability

[bfr]

Yes I remember that too but the 'Acceleration Pack' F-18 was far from a study simulation of the aircraft (the features you allude to were very much standard MSFS autopilot fare) and its not a feature i've ever seen in any serious reproduction of an F-18 (DCS or the VRS F-18E in MSFS).

[Dragon1-1]

It's a thing on the Mirage, but it has a very advanced autopilot system complete with a runway approach mode. All in all, the autopilot on US jets tends to be a little bare-bones, basically just a heading and altitude hold. Navy jets have ACLS and autothrottle, but that's pretty much only so that they can automatically land on a carrier.