I think I've taken figuring this out as far as is useful.
I've stayed with the Retrofit DC-3 during the last many flights only to minimize any inconstancies between aircraft. I've already had other aircraft with the same autopilot suite behave the same way. I don't think I can blame this on a single aircraft, unless I figure out later there's some sort of caching/data bleedover when switching between aircraft during the same flying session.
-Where it's at now is that sometimes the DC-3 will load up with a correctly working AP with all the button selections and actions doing what they are supposed to do. A whole multi-hour flight goes perfectly.
-On a few flights, the correctly working AP system will suddenly stop working for no apparent reason a few hours into the flight, with no way to make it work correctly for the duration of the flight.
-If the aircraft loads up with a brain-dead AP, sometimes using the in-sim restart will bring it back to correctly working status. Sometimes the restart doesn't.
-If the in-sim restart using the same flight doesn't reactivate the AP, occasionally I can get the AP to kick back in by loading up the DC-3 at a completely different airport. With luck, I can then back out of that medicinal flight and then reload the flight I wanted to make, and the AP will be back to normal. That doesn't always work either,
and the AP will fail again as soon as I reload the intended aircraft and flight plan.
Just a very odd thing.
Forest
I've stayed with the Retrofit DC-3 during the last many flights only to minimize any inconstancies between aircraft. I've already had other aircraft with the same autopilot suite behave the same way. I don't think I can blame this on a single aircraft, unless I figure out later there's some sort of caching/data bleedover when switching between aircraft during the same flying session.
-Where it's at now is that sometimes the DC-3 will load up with a correctly working AP with all the button selections and actions doing what they are supposed to do. A whole multi-hour flight goes perfectly.
-On a few flights, the correctly working AP system will suddenly stop working for no apparent reason a few hours into the flight, with no way to make it work correctly for the duration of the flight.
-If the aircraft loads up with a brain-dead AP, sometimes using the in-sim restart will bring it back to correctly working status. Sometimes the restart doesn't.
-If the in-sim restart using the same flight doesn't reactivate the AP, occasionally I can get the AP to kick back in by loading up the DC-3 at a completely different airport. With luck, I can then back out of that medicinal flight and then reload the flight I wanted to make, and the AP will be back to normal. That doesn't always work either,
and the AP will fail again as soon as I reload the intended aircraft and flight plan.
Just a very odd thing.
Forest
