Hello All,
     As a new member  I would like some basics  on using auto pilot .
   First a question , can auto pilot be used to fly an entire mission , take off to landing , from any airfield to another and    watch what happens during the flight from the cockpit.?
  I would like to know if this can be done and how to set it up.
  I think  it would  be helpful show how the flight should be done so you could try it yourself  manually

           Regards,
                 FUTABA.

The short answer to your first question is no. What version of FS are you using?

SaultFresh wrote on Dec 6^th, 2012 at 8:09pm:


Advanced autopilots do. Not the real single prop Cessna mounted ones, this I give you (they'd cost more than the plane), but those in liners, especially the long haulers, MUST be able to control all three axis.

Regardless, to build a plane that would be able to do all on its own (push-back, taxi, take-off, climb, cruise, descent, landing, taxi, park) would not be absolutely impossible even nowadays. Planes that could realistically fly themselves without needing a pilot are technically possible... fact is that there are several factors that keep the builders to buy those hypothetical monsters, one of them is the reliability of all those systems (statistically, the more a system is complex, the easier some problem or failure can happen to it), the other is the simple argument that it's true that about the 50% of plane accidents happen because of human error... but would you fly on a plane that has no pilot? Even one accredited to be able to do all the flight on its own from pushback to park?

I would not.