Autopilot Roll Att & Pitch Att :bug or not?
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Hi Mav-jp!
Thanks for your reply…now could you tell me please where I can find the “real” document as you told, to avoid reading bullshit docs ? because I couldn’t find the informations which you wrote on this topic on any document…
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I find ATT HOLD useful to maintain pitch during climb while I do some cockpit checks.
1. Because the human being has the tendency to move the controls while being heads down, in an unconscious effort to correct airplane attitude with reference to relative movement of the outside in the pehripherical view. By having the auto pilot in ATT HOLD, you get “relieved” by the fact that something is “controlling” while you are heads down.
2. I prefer it to ALT HOLD in some occasions due to the fact that in medium to close formation scenario, I won’t have the 50 to 100 feet pitch down moment that can “bother” wingmen.
3. I find it more precise than me in keeping a pitch attitude for a steady constant climb.
4. that’s just me
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Also question about AP , during TFR on
e.g in sea level can you turn left -right ? with TFR ON ? or you must hold Stick AP Paddle switch and then turn? -
ATT HOLD is “equivalent” to the control wheel steering on B737 and/or the “pilotage par transparence” on M2000. (but on M2000 you can change the ATT via the trim HAT which is commanding the * symbol inside the FPM into the HUD or by depressing the stick paddle and releasing it into the new attitude … this is why we are used to say that M2000 is auto trimmed in attitude… not really true, but not really wrong depending if you are in or out basic AP mode.)
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I’m also trying out the A/P in BMS for the first time. It seems that even with the AP engaged in ALT HOLD and Steering Select ROLL Mode, the Joystick seems to be still active and will allow pilot inputs of even minor amounts. This doesn’t seem correct. I should have to use the Override Paddle switch on the JS to allow an input to be made. In GA aircraft this is often call Control Wheel Steering and allows the pilot to be able to make momentary changes in attitude and then return to AP by releasing the switch.
Is this a known bug in BMS 4.3.2?
Willy
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This is not a bug at all, this is the way the F-16 works.
if you google for a dash one, it will explain this in great detail. Id link you one but links of any kind are verboten.
EDIT: If you are in a (RL) two seater, then there can be an additional source of commands as well, in that both pilots have control of the stick. If the AP is completely off, and the pilot in the back tries to go to -2G, and the front guy tries to go into a 4G loop at the same time, the nose will not move at all.
Whichever seat is set to be in command, if the pilot in that seat holds the paddle switch, then it will ignore all other sources of commands - GIB/AP inputs are ignored completely.
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I’m also trying out the A/P in BMS for the first time. It seems that even with the AP engaged in ALT HOLD and Steering Select ROLL Mode, the Joystick seems to be still active and will allow pilot inputs of even minor amounts. This doesn’t seem correct. I should have to use the Override Paddle switch on the JS to allow an input to be made. In GA aircraft this is often call Control Wheel Steering and allows the pilot to be able to make momentary changes in attitude and then return to AP by releasing the switch.
Is this a known bug in BMS 4.3.2?
Willy
Stick steering is a feature of f16 AP
You can always overides the AP with stick, however you will feel like a spring to your inputs because AP is still acting.
To temporarly disconnect the AP , use paddle
Be aware though that depressing paddle will set a new reference altitude for the alt hold
AP works 100% the same than the real