holding altitude

mildrid_plotka

is there a way to hold your altitude?

Auto pilot

tomthetank wrote:

mildrid_plotka

is there a way to hold your altitude?

Auto pilot

that holds the heading. like it tells me to hold at 6,000ft. i put auto pilot on and it just holds the wings straight but i still decrease in altitude

ALT Hold on the Autopilot will maintain(or level off at) the selected altitude. 🙂

I tried that.

ATC told me to hold at 17,000. I put autopilot on + alt hold and it brought me down to like 16,500 and they terminated my IFR

mildrid_plotka wrote:

I tried that.
ATC told me to hold at 17,000. I put autopilot on + alt hold and it brought me down to like 16,500 and they terminated my IFR

Need more information from you.
1. Which aircraft and program?
2. What is the exact sequence that you're using to setup the AP?
3. Did you set 17000 in the altitude select window?

CRJCapt wrote:

mildrid_plotka wrote:

I tried that.
ATC told me to hold at 17,000. I put autopilot on + alt hold and it brought me down to like 16,500 and they terminated my IFR

Need more information from you.
1. Which aircraft and program?
2. What is the exact sequence that you're using to setup the AP?
3. Did you set 17000 in the altitude select window?

I was using a SwissAir Airbus A320 I downloaded from FlightSim.com, AP then alt hold, and what do you mean the select altitude?

A330*

In order for the AP to hold altitude, you have to tell it what altitude you want. There should be a altitude pre-select window to input the desired altitude. 🙂

Put the altitude in then turn auto pilot master on and the altiude holde on

thanks! 😀

try resetting your altimeter. is it set to the right barometric pressure. that effect the AP.

earthqu8kes wrote:

try resetting your altimeter. is it set to the right barometric pressure. that effect the AP.

His problems have been sorted out a week ago

didnt see the "thanks!" post 😂

earthqu8kes wrote:

didnt see the "thanks!" post 😂

Another way of knowing how old a post is, is by looking at the date just above each and every post

sry didnt notice that. i dont think i scrolled down far enough. but hey on the bright side you have 3700 posts! 🙂

Most of us don't care about our post counts.