My Memory is failing me.. ;-)

[Alan Black AS122]

OK... so I had to take a 6 month hiatus from flying while our renovations on the house were being done and I just started flying again last week. What I'm finding is that I'm too old to take a break that long and certain things appear to have left my mind I can't seem to remember for the life of me what keystrokes I used to press to get the autopilot to follow my flightplan and make the turns automatically for me. So for now, I having to sit here constantly, watch the heading and make corrections for the entire flight

Can anyone help straighten me out and give me the command?

Thanks.....

[AS 2 Tom Little]

Alan, I'd help if I could but I also have no idea LOL

But I figured it would be nice to just say hello!

[Alan Black AS122]

Shows how out of touch I am on this... I had it in my head it was an FS function and was going nuts trying to find it. On my way from JFK-SEA, somewhere above North Dakota, I started searching the FSCommander forums and found my answer... "Autoheading" on the GPS window. Now I can go grab a drink without worrying about coming back and being 10nm off course

[HoratioWondersocks]

Hello Alan
There IS a way of getting your plane to follow a flight plan with standard FS commands. I haven't used it for awhile as I use FSNav to control my flights. I seem to remember that to get auto course following within FS9 you have to make sure that your NAV/GPS button is set to NAV. Then you have to select the NAV option on your autopilot .Following these procedures will cause your aircraft to automatically follow a flightplan, no FSNav/Commander etc required.
I THINK this is correct.

Cheers Andy

[R_Aldrich]

that is correct Andy, and to get the actual keystrokes, go to the settings-->controls window, and then use the drop down menu to select the autopilot functions, and that will list the keystrokes.. by default, the GPS/NAV switch has no key command, but you can assign one to it (I use CTRL+SHIFT+N)...

hope this helps


Ross