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Reply #15 - Jul 4th, 2010 at 9:48pm

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If you're using a flite yoke or flite stick that has a pitch trim wheel or lever, check that trim wheel/lever to see if it may be in full nose down trim.

The auto pilot over rides your control yoke & trim until you disengage the auto pilot.
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Reply #16 - Jul 24th, 2010 at 6:10pm

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I land the 747-400 in FSX perfectly and I never practiced anything. Something must be wrong that's nosediving your plane into the ground. Trim settings perhaps?
 

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Reply #17 - Jul 26th, 2010 at 3:06pm

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Steve,

Try recalibrating your yoke.

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Reply #18 - Aug 4th, 2010 at 8:06am

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Staiduk wrote on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 4:10pm:
-Crossfire- wrote on Oct 10th, 2009 at 9:42pm:


Shocked Shocked

Please explain why you would turn of EFIS.  EFIS is not those rectangles, it is an Electonic Flight Istrument System, with essential information needed to fly the particular airplane.  It varies in most aircraft, but the PFD always has the primary flight instruments displayed on it.


Er...

Umm....

Whoops?  Grin

Too much coffee, too little sleep. Yes, 'Virtual flight Path' is the correct term. The rest of the post holds though.



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Reply #19 - Oct 6th, 2010 at 3:11pm

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Check this from the FS9 autopilot help;

Don't attempt to manually control the aircraft with the joystick while the autopilot is turned on. If, for example, you select Altitude Hold mode and then try to hand-fly the airplane, the autopilot will compensate by running the trim. This situation can lead to several problems in the real world, especially if you're flying in the clouds. For example, upon disengaging the autopilot, you could find that the autopilot had run the trim all the way nose up or nose down and have a very hard time maintaining control of the airplane, or the autopilot could disengage itself after hitting the trim limits. You might assume that the autopilot is still on, release the controls to unfold a chart, or tune the radios, and enter a spiral, stall, or other unpleasant condition before you figured out what was going on.

Maybe?
 

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