On Sunday 20 July 2003 02:23, Jim Wilson wrote:
> Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > I saw you'd reverted the target climb rate calcs in cvs and now that the 
old 
> > alt hold is back I can see that the auto throttle response seems 
considerably 
> > improved.
> > 
> 
> You may want to play with the gain factor and integral for throttle to.  If
> you find the throttle setting swings up and down too much,  try increasing 
the
> throttle-adjustment-factor up in steps of 1000.  It should work smoothly and
> be dead on once it reaches target.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim

Ta for the info.  I found that the auto-throttle holds the set speed very 
well, even between different a/c types and it was very easy to match speeds 
between them.  Using multiplay, with a B-52 and a YF-23 both set to the same 
ap speed, there was hardly any drift between them and it got me thinking 
about doing a KC-10 for playing at in flight re-fuelling:)

(The jitter would have to be fixed first though - I wonder if a moving average 
over several samples would smooth it out a bit?  I might have a look at that 
but I suspect it could be beyond me)

The ap throttle even worked well when both were terrain following over fairly 
lumpy ground, and I've not looked at changing the default values for the gain 
and integral yet.

As I said, approaching another a/c and then matching speeds, assuming I knew 
the other a/c speed, is much easier - you can set the target speed in the ap 
settings of the a/c you're flying and then just punch it in once you've done 
your intercept and got into position on manual throttle.

Good stuff:)

LeeE


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