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Aug 7^th, 2011 at 10:28pm

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Are there any freeware downloads of the Supermarine Spitfire with a autopilot?

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Reply #1 - Aug 7^th, 2011 at 11:56pm

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no. Spitfires didnt have an autopilot installed in the real world.

there are Freeware Supermarine Spitfires for download, but none of them have an autopilot. You can add one if you want if you have FS PANEL STUDIO.

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Reply #2 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 1:13am

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Capt.Propwash wrote on Aug 7^th, 2011 at 11:56pm:

no. Spitfires didnt have an autopilot installed in the real world.

there are Freeware Supermarine Spitfires for download, but none of them have an autopilot. You can add one if you want if you have FS PANEL STUDIO.

I didn't know that autopilot wasn't installed in the real world

the p51 mustang had it installed tho

I will try FS PANEL STUDIO. I haven't used it before so fingers crossed. Thanks for the reply

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Reply #3 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 3:40am

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I wasn't aware the Mustang was fitted with an autopilot. The Spitfire certainly wasn't. Why would you need it?

If you have an aircraft with a suitable autopilot it should be easy enough to add it to another 2D panel using the appropriate Panel.cfg entries. You might also need to modify Aircraft,cfg.

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Reply #4 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 5:10am

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Hagar wrote on Aug 8^th, 2011 at 3:40am:

I wasn't aware the Mustang was fitted with an autopilot. The Spitfire certainly wasn't. Why would you need it?

If you have an aircraft with a suitable autopilot it should be easy enough to add it to another 2D panel using the appropriate Panel.cfg entries. You might also need to modify Aircraft,cfg.

Hi, From memory in the mid 80s allot of mustangs had there avionics upgraded which included an auto pilot. It might sound strange putting one in a Spitfire but I want to do some long flights and land at every strip and airport in the sim Cheesy

I would not have a clue how to modify a cfg but I do have a Seafire installed

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Reply #5 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 5:28am

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OK, I see an AP would be useful for a Mustang as it had a long range. The Spitfire always suffered from its short range as it was originally designed as an interceptor. The longest range Spitfires were the unarmed PR versions.

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Reply #6 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 3:02pm

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No Spit was ever fitted with AP, you just trimmed the aircraft. I'd be interested to see any articles on AP fitted P-51s as I've never heard of any....

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #7 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 4:40pm

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Interesting side line.

The only reference to a P-51 autopilot I can find is the P-51 Excalibur 3 racer and transatlantic flyer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mustang_excalibur.jpg

With this reference to the primitive autopilot.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19520093000

Meanwhile if it's for FSX I doubt you will be disappointed with this(no autopliot though)

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Reply #8 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 5:26pm

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Meanwhile if it's for FSX I doubt you will be disappointed with this(no autopliot though)

This topic was moved from the FS9 section.

Whether the Spit had an autopilot in real life is beside the point. No reason you can't have one in FS if you want one. If I knew anything about them I would have a go at it myself. Being a seat-of-the-pants merchant I've never used one.

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Reply #9 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 8:31pm

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adding gauges to a 2D PANEL in FS9 or X .. with FS Panel studio is relatively simple. then again, being that I do have the program, i suppose that it could be done. .... given the right words be spoken.

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Reply #10 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 10:37pm

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ozzy72 wrote on Aug 8^th, 2011 at 3:02pm:

No Spit was ever fitted with AP, you just trimmed the aircraft. I'd be interested to see any articles on AP fitted P-51s as I've never heard of any....

I found a YouTube vid which shows modern avionics, purely a personal decision made by the people restoring p51's to add a ap as well I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwEy4x88d0Y

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Reply #11 - Aug 8^th, 2011 at 10:49pm

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Capt.Propwash wrote on Aug 8^th, 2011 at 8:31pm:

adding gauges to a 2D PANEL in FS9 or X .. with FS Panel studio is relatively simple. then again, being that I do have the program, i suppose that it could be done. .... given the right words be spoken.

Hello, can you please add a basic autopilot to a spitfire for me kind sir

I don't have the program to do it and I'm green when it comes to configuring cfg files. Sad

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