no change Did the AP functions change?

[Aoi Kaze]

Hello all. I abandoned the Viper for a couple of months, since I've been learning how to fly the F-15E. Today I decided to give it a go again and I noticed a lot of changes in the way it flies. Before I almost never had to trim it a lot (except when carrying assymetric payloads or when releasing bombs from one station and so), and now I had to trim it constantly. Moreover, what worried me most is that the autopilot didn't seem to work fine. Placing the left switch to steerpoing and the right to mantain altitude, neither did it follow the steerpoint, nor it mantained altitude or attitude. I tried in different missions and it seems it's just not working.  So I am wondering: maybe something changed and I didn't notice?

I have been trying to find any topics about it and I couldn't so, maybe it's just happening to me?

 

Thanks in advance

Edited February 24, 2024 by Aoi Kaze

[Sinclair_76]

You could've left your trim in DISC during the start up. That would explain both issues.

[Aoi Kaze]

hace 51 minutos, Sinclair_76 dijo:

You could've left your trim in DISC during the start up. That would explain both issues.

Not in different missions. I closed DCS, started up again, tried on a free flight instant action and same problem. I think I will have to uninstall the module, since it seems it's only happening to me.

[Furiz]

8 hours ago, Aoi Kaze said:

Hello all. I abandoned the Viper for a couple of months, since I've been learning how to fly the F-15E. Today I decided to give it a go again and I noticed a lot of changes in the way it flies. Before I almost never had to trim it a lot (except when carrying assymetric payloads or when releasing bombs from one station and so), and now I had to trim it constantly. Moreover, what worried me most is that the autopilot didn't seem to work fine. Placing the left switch to steerpoing and the right to mantain altitude, neither did it follow the steerpoint, nor it mantained altitude or attitude. I tried in different missions and it seems it's just not working.  So I am wondering: maybe something changed and I didn't notice?

I have been trying to find any topics about it and I couldn't so, maybe it's just happening to me?

 

Thanks in advance

 

I think you forgot how Viper flies and now you have a feeling that something is wrong. Viper always had to be trimmed with asimetric loadout. As for the AP, for me it works just fine.

I don't think that you have to uninstall the module you can run repair of the game, cleanup and remove all mods that you have,

- check that Trim/AP Disc Switch is set to NORM,

- check that Air Refueling Door Control Switch is set to CLOSE, it disconnects the AP when OPEN.

- and finally check that Paddle Switch is not depressed.

those 3 can disconnect the AP.

Edited February 24, 2024 by Furiz

[Aoi Kaze]

hace 3 horas, Furiz dijo:

I think you forgot how Viper flies and now you have a feeling that something is wrong. Viper always had to be trimmed with asimetric loadout. As for the AP, for me it works just fine.

I don't think that you have to uninstall the module you can run repair of the game, cleanup and remove all mods that you have,

- check that Trim/AP Disc Switch is set to NORM,

- check that Air Refueling Door Control Switch is set to CLOSE, it disconnects the AP when OPEN.

- and finally check that Paddle Switch is not depressed.

those 3 can disconnect the AP.

 

I said I almost never had to trim except when having assymetric payloads and so. My AP doesn't work right, hence this post. I appreciate the recommendations, but I'm saying it happened in different (consecutive) missions, and even when I started an instant mission in free flight, The fact that AP seems to work exactly the same for everybody else is why I think my module has become corrupted. I will start with repairing DCS, check on the modules, and reinstall it and see if the problem persists. Maybe something went wrong with the last update.
Thanks to all.

[Aoi Kaze]

Hmmm, reinstalling seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks to all. I don't know what happened, but it seems to be working fine now.

[RPY Variable]

Be aware that if you let go your joystick and inf RCTRL+ENTER the axis is not center almost perfectly, the autopilot won't engage. You'll need to recalibrate your joystick.

[Machalot]

I agree with RPY Variable, this sounds like a misaligned or noisy joystick axis. Any nonzero input will override the autopilot.

[Razor18]

I have the same problem after checking all the possible sources of fault mentioned above. Just start a free flight. You can activate Auto Pilot by switching to ALT HOLD, but after you depress the Paddle switch once, you can not activate the auto pilot again by switching PITCH to A/P OFF and back to ALT HOLD again. Anyone else?...

EDIT: Nevermind, I've found the source of trouble. It is the key bindig for the Winwing Orion 2 joy, where the paddle switch has both a PRESSED and also a RELEASED button in The SimAppPro, similar to the 2-stage trigger button. So if you want to bind the PRESSED button to any function, then you need to right click the proper cell, choose "Add combo" in the control binding screen, and hold the Paddle switch pressed, when clicking on OK. If you just press and release the Paddle switch, then casually press OK to confirm binding, then the key you will bind for AP override is the RELEASED state. So then while using the joy, when you press and hold Paddle switch, you did in fact not even override ther A/P yet, because the override starts when you released Paddle switch. And then it stays overridden, and in fact never returns to active A/P again, because RELEASED button stays RELEASED forever, after releasing Paddle switch. Sorry if complicated, much easier to implement,

Edited September 10, 2024 by Razor18