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!

The perfect way to take your eye's off what you are meant to be concentrating on and stuff up even further. Thanks for the work around.

When I start getting ready to make a planned decent after letting the aircraft fly on autopilot most of the flight. All of a sudden the altitude button, vs button and the airspeed button on the front autopilot panel become un clickable. You hover your mouse over them and you cant click on them it wont do anything. Therefore destroying my whole flight. Hey mate, There is a known workaround for this issue as I have sometimes come across it. Open the ATC window by pressing scroll lock, resize it and close it. You'll be able to click on the buttons again. Asobo/MS are aware of this issue and I suspect a fix will be deployed this month for it.

I keep finding new problems every day. The one that annoys me the most though. I create a flight from Sydney YSSY to Melbourne YMML with the a320Neo. When I start getting ready to make a planned decent after letting the aircraft fly on autopilot most of the flight. All of a sudden the altitude button, vs button and the airspeed button on the front autopilot panel become un clickable. You hover your mouse over them and you cant click on them it wont do anything. Therefore destroying my whole flight. Which is really making me very upset. Another bug for Microsoft's massive office 365 Excel Spreadsheet to be populated with. I'm sure the list keeps growing rapidly. Lets hope they have fixed it all in the second patch release. I'm very familiar with the MSFS 2020 a320 autopilot functions. So I know am I not making a mistake. I hover the mouse over those knobs and nothing happens at all. You do things like trying to change from a managed vertical speed to a manual decent rate and you physically cannot click up or down on the button to select either modes. Same for the airspeed knob and altitude knob. It just does nothing and the mouse pointer just hovers over them. In fact this goes for every single clickable knob, dial or switch it the entire cockpit. I can still put the gear down with my G key. But if you try to do it with the mouse. You can't. The plane keeps flying on the autopilot and you are unable to manipulate anything at all rather than what you have setup on your joystick assignments. So you are still able to fly the plane with the functions of the joy stick. But as for trying to change anything on the front autopilot panel with your mouse is impossible. Kinda hope someone reads this and attempts to replicate my issue.

There are problems but a lot of problems are from lack of understanding of the aircraft. You can't dead stick the airbus because auto throttle automatically turns on to prevent stall. Other auto thrust issues people are having with the a320 is from having the thrust levers in the wrong position. Completely agree. The throttles work very differently in the Airbus vs Boeing. Even very differently in the default Airbus in FSX vs FS2020. These planes are complex and are not something you can jump straight into. I've been Flight Simming on and off for 25 years and I had to re-familiarise myself with the airliners in FS2020, and I'm sure there will be far more learning as they fix bugs/add features to the default aircrafts in the months to come. My advice for people - look up tutorials, there is a wealth of knowledge on Youtube at the moment. These larger planes are not straight forward. Start with the GA aircraft if you're new to flight simming and work your way upto the big boys.

There are problems but a lot of problems are from lack of understanding of the aircraft. You can't dead stick the airbus because auto throttle automatically turns on to prevent stall. Other auto thrust issues people are having with the a320 is from having the thrust levers in the wrong position.

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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2020-09-08T13:46:16+00:00

The perfect way to take your eye's off what you are meant to be concentrating on and stuff up even further.

Thanks for the work around.
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2020-09-08T11:53:15+00:00

When I start getting ready to make a planned decent after letting the aircraft fly on autopilot most of the flight. All of a sudden the altitude button, vs button and the airspeed button on the front autopilot panel become un clickable. You hover your mouse over them and you cant click on them it wont do anything. Therefore destroying my whole flight.

Hey mate,

There is a known workaround for this issue as I have sometimes come across it. Open the ATC window by pressing scroll lock, resize it and close it. You'll be able to click on the buttons again.

Asobo/MS are aware of this issue and I suspect a fix will be deployed this month for it.
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2020-09-08T11:45:06+00:00

I keep finding new problems every day.

The one that annoys me the most though.

I create a flight from Sydney YSSY to Melbourne YMML with the a320Neo.

When I start getting ready to make a planned decent after letting the aircraft fly on autopilot most of the flight. All of a sudden the altitude button, vs button and the airspeed button on the front autopilot panel become un clickable. You hover your mouse over them and you cant click on them it wont do anything. Therefore destroying my whole flight. Which is really making me very upset. Another bug for Microsoft's massive office 365 Excel Spreadsheet to be populated with. I'm sure the list keeps growing rapidly. Lets hope they have fixed it all in the second patch release.

I'm very familiar with the MSFS 2020 a320 autopilot functions. So I know am I not making a mistake. I hover the mouse over those knobs and nothing happens at all. You do things like trying to change from a managed vertical speed to a manual decent rate and you physically cannot click up or down on the button to select either modes. Same for the airspeed knob and altitude knob. It just does nothing and the mouse pointer just hovers over them.

In fact this goes for every single clickable knob, dial or switch it the entire cockpit. I can still put the gear down with my G key. But if you try to do it with the mouse. You can't. The plane keeps flying on the autopilot and you are unable to manipulate anything at all rather than what you have setup on your joystick assignments. So you are still able to fly the plane with the functions of the joy stick. But as for trying to change anything on the front autopilot panel with your mouse is impossible.

Kinda hope someone reads this and attempts to replicate my issue.
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2020-09-08T02:44:54+00:00

There are problems but a lot of problems are from lack of understanding of the aircraft. You can't dead stick the airbus because auto throttle automatically turns on to prevent stall. Other auto thrust issues people are having with the a320 is from having the thrust levers in the wrong position.

Completely agree. The throttles work very differently in the Airbus vs Boeing. Even very differently in the default Airbus in FSX vs FS2020. These planes are complex and are not something you can jump straight into. I've been Flight Simming on and off for 25 years and I had to re-familiarise myself with the airliners in FS2020, and I'm sure there will be far more learning as they fix bugs/add features to the default aircrafts in the months to come.

My advice for people - look up tutorials, there is a wealth of knowledge on Youtube at the moment. These larger planes are not straight forward. Start with the GA aircraft if you're new to flight simming and work your way upto the big boys.
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2020-09-08T02:35:56+00:00

There are problems but a lot of problems are from lack of understanding of the aircraft. You can't dead stick the airbus because auto throttle automatically turns on to prevent stall. Other auto thrust issues people are having with the a320 is from having the thrust levers in the wrong position.
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