How to use the AUTOPILOT made by Antti Pankonen.

Automatic flight control panel Mouse aerea's mouse aeras



Display control unit

Parking Brake OFF [CTRL+.]
Heading Bug Top index (2)
Stabilization ON [SHIFT+R] (10)
Hover 10 ft

Take Off
Use the BRAKE button as a FORCE TRIM RELASE

You can also Take Off without the stabilization, but this is much more difficult depending on your FS realisim setting.

When reaching 200 ft/GND and 40 KIAS you can switch on the "Higher Order Modes"
Push the Heading knob (2) and the V/S (4), adjust a nice climb. Then adjust ALT.A (Altitude aquired) (9) to the desired Altitude. The helicopter will level by its own.

If you want to fly an ILS you have to fly with HDG (2) the intercept. Arm the localicer with the APP (7) button. The glideslope will be armed normaly when the localicer is captured by pressing the G/S button (8). The helicopter will level at 82ft/GND and will fly the present heading like the real one.

You can activate the CR.HT (cruise height) (5) mode above 200ft/GND and you can decent down to 10 ft/GND in connection with a direction mode.

To decouple the "Higher Order Modes" press [Z]

When on Ground switch off the stabilization [SHIFT+R] (10)

The autopilot is active on 3 axis which means you have to have two modes active to make it work. You can use the autopilot with any other helicopter.
Put the as532_afcp.gau in your panel.cfg. Add the following to your aircraft.cfg and the autopilot will work.

[autopilot]
autopilot_available=1
flight_director_available=1
default_vertical_speed=0.001
autothrottle_available=1
pitch_takeoff_ga=0.000000
autothrottle_arming_required=1
autothrottle_takeoff_ga=0
autothrottle_max_rpm=90.000000

Have fun and let me know if you like the autopilot. Best regards and many happy landings.

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