Harrier's autopilot.
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Hello,
Could anyone tell me if there’s any way to make Harrier fly straight to steerpoint/heading on autopilot?
Or if this is “hardcoded” issue if there’s any plan to correct this behaviour in further updates? -
Hello Amarok
is your harrier not flying to next steer point in auto pilot? it should i just ran a test to make sure. or do i misunderstand the question. under settings there are three types of autopilot and combat will completely take control of the plane and fight, navigate and land for you, the other is steer point only and then 3 axis. Maybe you accidentally changed autopilot settings. if not something is wrong for you.
the harrier i just tested flew straight back to its flight path and then to the steer point. or is that your problem, you want it to go straight to the steer point instead of to the flight path first? -
To be clear, I could describe it as oscilating from side to side. It’s like airplane is turning to steerpoint, then countering this turn too late, after steerpoint bearing is already passed. Then he turns opposite and all above is repeated.
It doesn’t happen all the time, but most of it, and I have in settings 3 axis.
For sure it’s not that I am trying to force plane to fly directly to steerpoint while he wants to follow the track plotted by lines connecting steerpoints. -
the 3axis i think only help plane stay on coarse. try it on steerpoint mode or combat and be flight leader. if you are number two or more i think auto pilot takes you to steerpoint number one wants you.
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Starrats, F-16 on 3-axis is working correcty - You set “stp” in cockpit, and he’s following steerpoint, on “hdg” plane is following heading set on HSI, so my guess is that in Harrier it’s rather bad or unfinished implementation of autopilot algorithm that causes “zig-zaging”…
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ok i think you may be more knowledgable about autopilot than i am. but i will look more into this. i love the av8 but never use auto pilot except combat mode when testing. sorry no help here yet.
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