about the autopilot

[tonaz]

Hi alex, first of all thank you for this very good upgrade!
I am a newbie in FSX, and with the new cockpit i found myself a little bit unfamiliar with the autopilot controls.
with the default 737 cockpit, i used to set the autothrottle, auto altitude and auto HDG before takingoff. Then after the take off i set AP master on, and the plane did what i set in the AP knobs.
Now, with this cockpit i set throttle, hdg and altitude, but when i engage AP i lost my settings and the plane put the actual data i am flying on. I mean if i set altitude to 7000ft, when i engage AP it will set at the altitude i am now (ie. 1400ft).
Do i do something wrong, or is it so in a real 737?
what is the correct procedure?
thanks so much for everything

[tonaz]

got the answer bymyself: this happens if you assign alt hold, hdg hold, speed hold to keyboards buttons.
using the mouse activating the holds everything works fine.
so strange behaviour of fsx.
looking forward if there is a fix for this.

[perh]

I was wondering what was causing me problems during takeoffs after I installed the upgrade. This has also happend to me when I engage the AP on my Saitek panel. So I guess that renders this otherwise great upgrade useless for me, since I bought the panels so I wouldn't have to use the muose.

[Alejandro]

OK..

I did not modify the autopilot gauge of the original FSX 737-800 I change few color of switches ,and lcd screens

none of these features were mod¡ify

the aircraft.cfg file its replaced by the original b737 file with few changes that mosly has to be with the light inside the cockpit and nothing more [img src="http://www.simviation.com/fsnd/smileys/www.simviation.com/fsnd/smileys/smiley.gif"].gif[/img]

Alejandro