PMDG nor anyone else can fix this. Their aircraft need a SOLID platform to execute aircraft/autopilot functions. That is why they ALL don't work properly. PMDG most likely doesn't have an SDK worthy of their development nor should anyone expect it anytime soon. Why are so many sceneries there for the purchasing but only 2 GA aircraft as they also are only as good as the sim which is better for GA hand flying but unusable for airliners in my opinion. I bet Austin is having a big old laugh an a huge sigh of relief at this point. Glad I have my other sim. Can't wait to see their rotor craft--LOL ! I'm heading towards 70 & was so hoping for a great experience. I should have known better at my age. This is FSX on Bing maps. Just browse google earth & save the aggravation.
Autopilot, Autothrottle and instrumental issues in MS Flight Simulator 2020
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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2020-10-05T17:02:28+00:00 On top of EVERYTHING.... I have lost the ATC window?
I cannot use ATC at all what a joke
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Anonymous
2020-10-04T04:36:16+00:00 With 850 hours as PIC in an A36 with the Garmins, the sim is underpowered and the runaway trim when engaging VS makes “safe” flying challenging. The current sim AP is not dependable. I hope they focus on correcting the avionics and sim models but since they are rushing to get the xbox version, I’m wondering. It would be ashame to make this a game as it shows so much promise as a sim.
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Anonymous
2020-10-02T12:55:57+00:00 Why should I accept a half baked product while Microsoft takes FULL payment? If this was a try before you buy, I'd keep my mouth shut. But I gave them $150 in exchange for a working product - and it is only partially working.
No, that type of attitude you have where we should just accept **** is exactly why these companies continue to get away with making us pay to beta test.
I have been around too long. It wasn't always like this and it should never be accepted practice.
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Anonymous
2020-10-02T12:46:39+00:00 Anecdotally, I'm a "real" military and commercially-qualified pilot whose played Microsoft flight simulators since the 90s.
This version is lacking some polish, such as poor ATC, poor flight model, and reduced fidelity aircraft; however, the underlying simulator is amazing. By far their best yet.
Yes there are problems, but go fly another aircraft for now and give them a few months to start releasing updates to the systems—this game will only get better.
The issues in this thread I have resolved by rebooting my machine, clearing my hard drive cache (ccleaner) and adding a generous deadzone of 10% to my joystick's pitch, roll, and yaw axis.