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Yesterday I flew from southern England to Bretagne in northwestern Franse. I flew at 1000 ft hight and at normal speed and had not performed any hard or quick movement with the stick. I had flew so soft I could, only long turns, no sharp one's. Then suddenly without no warning(I was aware of):
I could move the stick in all directions, but the plane only reacted when I put the stick forward, then the plane droped the nose. If I then pulled the stick back, it came back to leveled flight. The rudders I could still use. This happened when I was out over the English Channel and with no airports nearby. When I lost some hight I were never able to move back to that hight. So after awhile there was nothing more to do than land on the water. Then I do not know what got damaged when I landed on the water and what was damaged before.

Have this happen to anyone else, and if so, did you find a solution to the problem, or crashed like me?

It looks like the autopilot was on.

Did you touch anything on your keyboard ?

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Francis

Agreed. This used to happen to me, until I figured it out, and I think everyone here has done it before!

You probably pressed the "z" key without realizing it, thus turning on the auto pilot. I did it accidentally when quickly checking frame rates, I must've not hit the "shift" key hard enough.

Hope this helps!

Joe

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Thank you for your answer, that I did not thought over, but now when you say it, yes the behavior reminds of when autopilot is turned on and you try to steer.

Will 'Z' turn on an autopilot even if the aircraft have not installed an autopilot?
(A bit 'silly' if that is so.)

I thought it was more advanced than me making a 'silly' misstake, thought it was some of this failure's as can come up differently on different aircraft's.

I've tried enabling the autopilot with Z; it works in the Spitfire but not in the P-40, at least not that I've seen.

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The aircraft.cfg file controls the autopilot. If autopilot_available= 1, ya have a default autopilot that will work even if there is no "official" autopilot gauge installed.
"Z" turns it on/off
"ctl+Z" sets current altitude
"ctl+H" sets current hdg.


if autopilot_available= 0, ya have no autopilot available even if you installed an "official" autopilot gauge.


[autopilot]
autopilot_available= 1
flight_director_available= 0
default_vertical_speed= 700.0
autothrottle_available= 0
pitch_takeoff_ga=8.0
max_pitch=10.0
max_pitch_acceleration=1.0
max_pitch_velocity_lo_alt=2.0
max_pitch_velocity_hi_alt=1.5
max_pitch_velocity_lo_alt_breakpoint=20000.0
max_pitch_velocity_hi_alt_breakpoint=28000.0
max_bank=25.0

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Racartron
"it means something but I can't remember what"

Racartron thank you for your explanation, but on two places write like this:
autopilot_available= 1, ya
autopilot_available= 0, ya

I understand your post, but I can not find this things ending with "ya". This "ya" have I never seen before, so I wonder if you know what this extra ya does? Do you mean that I should add ya after the 1 or 0?


edited:Added the last question

This is what we call a failure to communicate "ya" is a US slang word for "you", Just ignore it.

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Racartron
"it means something but I can't remember what"

Okay, then I see. Hehehe, a bit funny.

I will not try to add another rule or so or trying to controle. But a suggestion, this is an international forum with persons from all over the world and far from all have english as our first language, so to make it easier for everyone to understand so will I suggest that we stop using slang words and also this new sms language with shortining words so there is only one letter for a word(such things is also difficult for foreigners to understand). Just a suggestion to make things easier for everyone and to avoid missunderstandings. There does not need to be a law for this, it is just to use common sense. It is not a big problem at this forum either, so I think it is enough with that we think over, and if some use such things once or twice, it does not matter either, it is when persons write only with such language, and have I not seen hee so far(so hope we will be free from it in the future too).

And Racartron, do not take this personal, cause it was said in general, I did not directed this to you, so please do not missunderstand me. Two 'ya' here and there is not a big problem, ya kna!(hihi)

I've found that the autopilot of the P-40 will only work if the radio is switched on. maybe its just me

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