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The autopilot of an aircraft is sometimes referred to as "George". | The autopilot of an aircraft is sometimes referred to as "George". | ||
==Autopilot in FlightGear== | |||
We have an generic one and especially written ones for a certain aircraft, which should simulate a real one. | |||
The generic one can be used for aircrafts which hasn't a own written one, and sems to work quite good on Aircrafts using JSBSim. You can set it with the "Autopilot Settings" which you can achieve with F11-Key or in tne menu bar "Autopilot" | |||
In reallife aircrafts has their own programmed autopilot system. Flightgear has the possibility to simulate this correct. So it is possible to write a own autopilot.xml. It can be driven by the autopilot-gui which will you find under MenuBar->Autopilot > Autopilot Settings. Or it can be only driven by keys and/ or hotspots in the virtual cockpit. As an example the SenecaII and the Piper Comanche Autopilots can be only used from the virtual cockpit. | |||
For further informations about programing autopilots in FlightGear look at [http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/XMLAutopilot/] and [[http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Autopilot_Tuning_Resources]] | |||
==Autopilot Settings== | ==Autopilot Settings== | ||
The AP Settings dialog could be found at '''Autopilot > | The AP Settings dialog could be found at '''Autopilot > Autopilot Settings'''. | ||
===Heading control=== | ===Heading control=== | ||
* '''Wings Level''': enable this to keep your plane horizontal- ususally used at Go-Arounds. | * '''Wings Level''': enable this to keep your plane horizontal- ususally used at Go-Arounds. | ||