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peter131176

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Have one more question, is the altitude autopilot working in couple mode only? When I'm setting up desired Altitude and climbing I can hier beeb 1000 ft before desired altitude which made me wonder if this is a signal for a pilot to worn him and couple altitude when reached. Or is it somekind of a bug and there is a fix somewhere of which I'm not aware . :)

Thank you guys for previous answers I really appreciate it.

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Pushing the ALT button on the autopilot will make the aircraft level out and hold the altitude present when the button was pushed.

For automatical holding a preset altitude do as follows:

Set Your required altitude in the altitude alerter window - let´s say 7000 ft.

Press the ALT ALRT Button to the left of the altitude alerter.

Climb in either autopilot manual mode (Autopilot engaged, but with no vertical mode selected). Pitch attitude is set via the thumb knob/switch assambly in the center of the Yoke.

Use the mousewheel while hovering the cursor over the thumbwheel/switch assembly to set a desired upward pitch.

Or use IAS mode to climb at a desired speed. I.e set desired engine power, set elevator trim to an attitude that will keep a steady airspeed of let´s say 100 knots, push the IAS button on the autopilot and engage the autopilot.

The autopilot will now adjust pitch in order to hold the airspeed present when the IAS button was pushed.

Shortly before reaching the desired altitude, set in the altitude alerter window, the autopilot will automatically change from IAS hold to ALT hold.

In IAS mode You can adhust Your vertical speed by adding or reducing engine power.

If engine power becomes low, then the aircraft will descend instead of climb in order to keep the desired speed.

This way You can also descend from higher altitude and automatically level out at an desired altitude.

Just always remember to set the desired altitude on the altitude alerter and engaged ALT ALRT.

Finn

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Thank you once again, I wanted to intercept this LOC and was flying till 2 in the mornig with no luck argh... I was in liverpool i'll try kirkwal now, my friend manage to intercept this morning but i slept in for this flight :)

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