The latest change to the autopilot code required autopilot stages to have unique names. I was a little to optimistic that aircraft developers were creative enough to invent unique names for each single stage ;-)
I have just pushed a fix which takes care of creating distinguished names for the stages. This fixes the Rascal's autopilot on my machine. Torsten > Just to chime in here with a me too, the altitude hold on the Rascal110 > also seems to be broke. Something seems to be overriding the target > altitude values and/or the mode selection, so the F11 autopilot dialog > can't control these. Similar problem with target airspeed. > > The wing leveler and heading hold modes do seem to work. I haven't had a > chance to investigate, but this is pretty recent breakage. > > Curt. > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:39 AM, wrote: > > Hi Syd, > > > > I just updated my fgdata and I noticed that the change you mentioned (in > > your message below) is not yet in de git repos. Should it not be in? > > > > Apart from that little remark, I can still not get the Aerostar700 AP to > > hold altitude. I have set the altitude on the dashbaord, armed it, > > activitated alt-hold with a altitude difference (between actual and > > desired) of less that 1000 ft (far less in fact, I switched to alt-hold > > on the desired altitude), but the plane keeps climbing anyway. > > The only way to keep a more or less stable altitude is by selecting > > pitch-hold and setting the pitch to a value close to 0.3. > > > > m > > > > Op 07-07-10 04:48, syd adams schreef: > > > I can't update my aircraft at the moment , but to fix the ALT hold > > > problem , change this starting at line 205 in aerostar-autopilot.xml > > > ... > > > > > > <input> > > > <prop>instrumentation/altimeter/indicated-altitude-ft</prop> > > > </input> > > > > > > Must have been a left over experiment. My mistake , there is no VS > > > hold with this system , but it holds pitch when the autopilot is > > > turned on , so engage it when you've trimmed for a climb ... and make > > > sure the Alerter is armed before your within +- 1000 feet of target > > > altitude ... and it should work properly . At least it does for me . > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >----- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > > _______________________________________________ > > Flightgear-devel mailing list > > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
