Strange discovery re: CPG and heading hold

[Lixma 06]

Sorry if this is old news...

So, the pilot is supposed to switch off heading hold AP before handing control over to the CPG because the CPG has no microswitches on his pedals. If he doesn't the CPG will be in a constant fight against the AP.

As such it would be helpful if when the player jumps into the front seat and assumes control the pilot automatically turns off the heading hold AP.

Unfortunately that doesn't happen....but I think it is supposed to.

When you jump in to the front seat and assume control without disabling heading AP you will, obviously, be stuck with it. But the moment you jump back into the pilot seat the heading AP switches itself off!

This makes me think that the devs really did code an automatic disabling of the heading AP but got it backwards. Instead of switching off when the CPG assumes control, it uselessly switches off when you return to the back seat.

Anyway here's a video of it. You can see the pilots heading AP is on; I switch seats and take control (you can see the AP is still on in the helper window); I then switch back to the pilot's seat and the heading AP turns itself off.

 

Edited November 16 by Lixma 06

[AeriaGloria]

The manual actually warns to make sure it’s off when CPG takes control!