Hello guys, I have been playing the game since launch and problems keep appearing since the moment of the slow download. I am not willing to talk about frequent crashing (despite good specs: Ryzen 2700x und 2080 Ti), but the autopilot in airliners like A320 Neo, B747 and B787 is horrible and extremely annoying, in them all!! Suddenly stops working and plane does not respond to any input given at any time, any altitude or any speed! And I am not assigning any crash simulation!!! The same applies to autothrottle! Is any one facing a similar issue? Could you manage to solve it? Thanks! UPDATE on 30.08.2020: So dears, to sum up some of the issues I met, I am putting that in short, keeping in mind I am not a true pilot, just a hobbyist simmer: first, I got relatively good specs PC (Ryzen 7 2700x, Samsung SSD, 16 Gb RAM, RTX 2080 Ti GPU). System all up to date, including BIOS, drivers and other softwares. Running on Windows 10 Pro ver. 2004. regarding game performance: the game struggles with loading speeds. Takes really really long time loading up. On 2K and 4K resolutions despite good specs and GPU there is a lot of frame drops. Opening Chrome in a separate desktop to read charts and route data into FMC for example makes the performance yet more horrible that it leads to the game continuously freezing and sometimes crashing to desktop, that the desktop becomes strangely blank and black that a reboot is then a must. Closing chrome improves the performance a little, but not much. The game freezes as well without having chrome open! Sometimes opening VFR-map, changing weather and co could end up freezing the game and even crashing it! flight control issues: starting with the horribly buggy autopilot buttons: engaging a function cannot be disengaged easily later, vertical speed is strange, that the button must be pressed twice and vertical speed must be inputted twice to force the plane into its ascent or descent. This is seen in all airliners including A320-Neo, B787 and B747. Sometimes (especially in B747) pitching the nose during level control is really horrible and too much! Have never seen all of this in true life and with true pilots! disengaging the autothrottle is catastrophic, that the throttle gets back to idle! Have never seen this as well in true life! B747 ILS is silly! After being established on the localiser, the plane suddenly and during final descent desynchronises with the localiser and G/S, that manual control is definitely a must and sometimes ending up in missed approach/overshooting runway! LNAV is generally working good. However, a strange thing happened when I flew from EHAM to EDDF with B787, where the LNAV suddenly entered a 360° loop just after the second or third waypoint, as if it is not getting recognised. Removing the affected waypoint(s) from the FMC did not help. (is it a bug?!) ATC is horrible!! A lot of bugs! For example, cannot request other approaches, once option selected, nothing happens! Being on IFR, ATC requests to change altitude is horribly silly!! For example, once approaching to finals, the ATC suddenly requests unexplained ascent to high levels (FL120 from 5000 ft as example) and just a few seconds later requests back again to descend back to 4600 ft. Just silly! I would prefer controlling levels myself! ATC does not synchronise with the high-altitude flight data given into the FMC! For example, when a flight is intended to be a high-altitude flight (FL350) with some waypoint(s) having FL370, ATC asks yet only to maintain an altitude of 7000 ft throughout the flight, as an example! That’s a silly function as well! FMC is - generally speaking - not bad, but yet primitive. Cannot change a lot of parameters (like V1, VR and V2) or other thrust or take off limits. FMC does not provide the point of descent as well! This is what I noticed so far. If you noticed some of these bugs, all of them or other bugs, please share. If you could manage to fix any of them, please share as well!

Same issue here, I can't seem to get any of the "autothrottle" stuff to work

I too have the same issue! Every time I close and open the game it seems to be a new surprise with autopilot systems... Sometimes it works as intended and sometimes it just ignores all my inputs and commands... Very... Very frustrating! Could have waited a bit more so they can fine tune these things...

Ive worked out the autopilot in the A320Neo. Took some time. But as for the 747. Its totally stuffed for me. I get runaway trim when trying to set a V/S speed. Goes up and down and does not hold a selected V/S at all. The autopilot also cannot seem to follow the track line. Its always going left and right. The 747 is totally broken! FIX it microsoft. I paid you $170AUD money for something I expected to WORK. Bugs all over the place.

Nothing is working .. autopilot is silly .. ATC is silly .. ILS and Approach not working!!! The plane approaches the runway at extremely high altitude despite flight plan!! ILS not working despite being established on the localizer and correct coarse and altitude. I tried with all three airliners (A320 Neo, B747 and B787) .. the problem seems to be more apparent in Boeing planes!! The airliners are far away from being considered functional!! Engaged functions do not get disengaged. Also unable to change a lot of parameters in the FMC like speeds (V1, VR and V2). I guess the game was released extremely early! I hope that MS never participates in making real softwares for real flight systems!!

OK so what I've noticed is the following. 787 autopilot is screwed up. Auto throttle getting the plane to decend etc all screwed. 2 a320 I have noticed that the auto throttle decides to come on randomly especially when landing causing issues. That said the other autopilot issues I thought I was having with the Airbus for me anyhow were from a lack of understanding how the Airbus autopilot works specifically auto throttle and managed modes. Im an avid pmdg user and have been learning and still continue to learn how Boeing aircraft work but id like to say that as an amateur I've gotten pretty good at managing the systems. The Airbus however is Greek to me so I'm starting over. So I hope the following helps After takeoff if you want to toggle the auto throttle and altitude management you have to make sure of a few things A. You move the throttle off the toga level and into the CLB setting. B. Clicking on the bottom of the speed knob will give you selected speed mode meaning the level you choose or click the top of the knob will give you managed speed which will use the speeds programmed in the fmc C similar with altitude. When in managed speed mode and atc tells you decend to 15000 but in the fmc it has the way point altitude as 16000 it will stay at 16000. This is Especially true at airports like paro where there are a lot of mountains and there are minimum altitudes programmed in the fmc. To bypass this you will have to use the VS knob D with the VS knob there are a few bugs but I have found if you toggle the VS knob on first by clicking the bottom and then use your mouse wheel to increase or decrease the VS it works like a charm. So after that long winded msg I guess what I'm trying to say is check the position of your throttle handles. That has a lot to do with the autopilot on the Airbus. The position of the throttle will be indicated above your airspeed. I hope this helps and if anyone has any tips on how to get the 787 autopilot working better please help.

Autopilot, Autothrottle and instrumental issues in MS Flight Simulator 2020

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Hello guys,

I have been playing the game since launch and problems keep appearing since the moment of the slow download. I am not willing to talk about frequent crashing (despite good specs: Ryzen 2700x und 2080 Ti), but the autopilot in airliners like A320 Neo, B747 and B787 is horrible and extremely annoying, in them all!! Suddenly stops working and plane does not respond to any input given at any time, any altitude or any speed! And I am not assigning any crash simulation!!!

The same applies to autothrottle!

Is any one facing a similar issue? Could you manage to solve it?

Thanks!

UPDATE on 30.08.2020:

So dears, to sum up some of the issues I met, I am putting that in short, keeping in mind I am not a true pilot, just a hobbyist simmer:

first, I got relatively good specs PC (Ryzen 7 2700x, Samsung SSD, 16 Gb RAM, RTX 2080 Ti GPU). System all up to date, including BIOS, drivers and other softwares. Running on Windows 10 Pro ver. 2004.
regarding game performance: the game struggles with loading speeds. Takes really really long time loading up. On 2K and 4K resolutions despite good specs and GPU there is a lot of frame drops. Opening Chrome in a separate desktop to read charts and route data into FMC for example makes the performance yet more horrible that it leads to the game continuously freezing and sometimes crashing to desktop, that the desktop becomes strangely blank and black that a reboot is then a must. Closing chrome improves the performance a little, but not much. The game freezes as well without having chrome open! Sometimes opening VFR-map, changing weather and co could end up freezing the game and even crashing it!
flight control issues:
starting with the horribly buggy autopilot buttons: engaging a function cannot be disengaged easily later, vertical speed is strange, that the button must be pressed twice and vertical speed must be inputted twice to force the plane into its ascent or descent. This is seen in all airliners including A320-Neo, B787 and B747. Sometimes (especially in B747) pitching the nose during level control is really horrible and too much! Have never seen all of this in true life and with true pilots!
disengaging the autothrottle is catastrophic, that the throttle gets back to idle! Have never seen this as well in true life!
B747 ILS is silly! After being established on the localiser, the plane suddenly and during final descent desynchronises with the localiser and G/S, that manual control is definitely a must and sometimes ending up in missed approach/overshooting runway!
LNAV is generally working good. However, a strange thing happened when I flew from EHAM to EDDF with B787, where the LNAV suddenly entered a 360° loop just after the second or third waypoint, as if it is not getting recognised. Removing the affected waypoint(s) from the FMC did not help. (is it a bug?!)
ATC is horrible!! A lot of bugs! For example, cannot request other approaches, once option selected, nothing happens! Being on IFR, ATC requests to change altitude is horribly silly!! For example, once approaching to finals, the ATC suddenly requests unexplained ascent to high levels (FL120 from 5000 ft as example) and just a few seconds later requests back again to descend back to 4600 ft. Just silly! I would prefer controlling levels myself! ATC does not synchronise with the high-altitude flight data given into the FMC! For example, when a flight is intended to be a high-altitude flight (FL350) with some waypoint(s) having FL370, ATC asks yet only to maintain an altitude of 7000 ft throughout the flight, as an example! That’s a silly function as well!
FMC is - generally speaking - not bad, but yet primitive. Cannot change a lot of parameters (like V1, VR and V2) or other thrust or take off limits. FMC does not provide the point of descent as well!

This is what I noticed so far. If you noticed some of these bugs, all of them or other bugs, please share. If you could manage to fix any of them, please share as well!

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2020-08-24T02:45:15+00:00

Same issue here, I can't seem to get any of the "autothrottle" stuff to work
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2020-08-23T08:24:00+00:00

I too have the same issue!

Every time I close and open the game it seems to be a new surprise with autopilot systems... Sometimes it works as intended and sometimes it just ignores all my inputs and commands...

Very... Very frustrating! Could have waited a bit more so they can fine tune these things...
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2020-08-29T08:52:37+00:00

Ive worked out the autopilot in the A320Neo. Took some time.

But as for the 747. Its totally stuffed for me. I get runaway trim when trying to set a V/S speed. Goes up and down and does not hold a selected V/S at all.

The autopilot also cannot seem to follow the track line. Its always going left and right.

The 747 is totally broken!

FIX it microsoft. I paid you $170AUD money for something I expected to WORK. Bugs all over the place.
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2020-08-24T21:07:49+00:00

Nothing is working .. autopilot is silly .. ATC is silly .. ILS and Approach not working!!! The plane approaches the runway at extremely high altitude despite flight plan!! ILS not working despite being established on the localizer and correct coarse and altitude.

I tried with all three airliners (A320 Neo, B747 and B787) .. the problem seems to be more apparent in Boeing planes!! The airliners are far away from being considered functional!!

Engaged functions do not get disengaged.

Also unable to change a lot of parameters in the FMC like speeds (V1, VR and V2).

I guess the game was released extremely early! I hope that MS never participates in making real softwares for real flight systems!!
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2020-08-27T19:05:11+00:00
OK so what I've noticed is the following.
1. 787 autopilot is screwed up. Auto throttle getting the plane to decend etc all screwed.
2 a320 I have noticed that the auto throttle decides to come on randomly especially when landing causing issues.

That said the other autopilot issues I thought I was having with the Airbus for me anyhow were from a lack of understanding how the Airbus autopilot works specifically auto throttle and managed modes.

Im an avid pmdg user and have been learning and still continue to learn how Boeing aircraft work but id like to say that as an amateur I've gotten pretty good at managing the systems. The Airbus however is Greek to me so I'm starting over.

So I hope the following helps
1. After takeoff if you want to toggle the auto throttle and altitude management you have to make sure of a few things
A. You move the throttle off the toga level and into the CLB setting.

B. Clicking on the bottom of the speed knob will give you selected speed mode meaning the level you choose or click the top of the knob will give you managed speed which will use the speeds programmed in the fmc

C similar with altitude. When in managed speed mode and atc tells you decend to 15000 but in the fmc it has the way point altitude as 16000 it will stay at 16000. This is Especially true at airports like paro where there are a lot of mountains and there are minimum altitudes programmed in the fmc. To bypass this you will have to use the VS knob

D with the VS knob there are a few bugs but I have found if you toggle the VS knob on first by clicking the bottom and then use your mouse wheel to increase or decrease the VS it works like a charm.

So after that long winded msg I guess what I'm trying to say is check the position of your throttle handles. That has a lot to do with the autopilot on the Airbus. The position of the throttle will be indicated above your airspeed.

I hope this helps and if anyone has any tips on how to get the 787 autopilot working better please help.
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