Auto pilots disengaged

[speed-of-heat]

Hi Guys,

I was in autohover last night and mid way through an attack all 3 primary flight directors disengaged; leaving only "alt hold" illuminated...

 

any ideas what i did to do this?

[MTFDarkEagle]

Could you provide a track file?

[Achurro]

Did you revised to switch off the 'route' switch??? If you're enrouted and hit auto hover.. you will have exactly this problem.

 

And if you are at autohover and descend below 10 meters, the same history. The altitude sensors, at lowers altitudes aren't efficients and provoque measurement fails at the INU. Avoid automatisms at low level flight.

[159th_Viper]

Read these articles:

 

http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_429a.html

 

http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_430a.html

[speed-of-heat]

Could you provide a track file?

No, but i will if it happens again

 

Did you revised to switch off the 'route' switch??? If you're enrouted and hit auto hover.. you will have exactly this problem.

I thought that was clear, so no idon't think it was that, though i didn't know that.

 

And if you are at autohover and descend below 10 meters, the same history. The altitude sensors, at lowers altitudes aren't efficients and provoque measurement fails at the INU. Avoid automatisms at low level flight.

so I knew that autohover would not work at low altitude, I was not aware it switched off all the autopilots, indeed I'm pretty sure it doesn't do this?

Read these articles:

 

http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_429a.html

 

http://www.simhq.com/_air13/air_430a.html

 

Will do maybe I hit the auto-pilot emergency off ...

[speed-of-heat]

Doh <facepalm> whilst I do have a button set up for Autopilot emergency off, I also have one set up to manually switch 'em back on again.. guess what happens in a toggle event