not a bug Autostart does not switch to NAV after INS alignment

[MadKreator]

Title says it all. Not a huge issue for me but probably for a newer player. I normally do a regular cold start but its been so long since I’ve flown the viper I couldn’t remember how to do it.  So autostart it was. Took a few restarts and trying to figure out why my navigation wasn’t cooperating at all…. Low and behold yes, that’s right, autostart doesn’t do the very last thing needed… turning the INS knob to NAV after alignment …. Is this intentional?

[SparxOne]

I think it is intentional and has always been the case, reason is, autostart will do the long INS alignement (Somewhere around 10 mins for a full alignement IIRC), that would force the autostart sequence to last 10+ minutes for it to switch the knob to NAV at the end of the alignement.

 

If i'm not mistaken, the autostart sequence will be considered finished with the INS knob still aligning, it is your job to switch it to NAV when INS is fully aligned

[MadKreator]

Ahh that make sense. I see it says ready at about 4 minutes.. shortly after that the autostart sequence ends. I figured it did a short or SH alignment with autostart.. I will have to watch it and see if it still counts down (up?) after auto start ends. That would make sense why it doesn’t, so you can do a full alignment if you choose to. 

Edited November 16, 2023 by MadKreator

[Lord Vader]

Hi @MadKreator

Like said above, the knob isn't turned to NAV because it is performing a fine alignment and it is still ongoing.

You will need to turn the knob when it reaches alignment (at state 10). 

[MadKreator]

2 hours ago, Lord Vader said:

Hi @MadKreator

Like said above, the knob isn't turned to NAV because it is performing a fine alignment and it is still ongoing.

You will need to turn the knob when it reaches alignment (at state 10). 

Thank for the clarification. I have since reminded myself the full start procedure lol It was never a game breaker, I just never knew exactly why.