Interesting… this seems to be a similar issue with the quantum entanglement phenomenon that’s happened in previous patches. That time it was caused by AI traffic doing stuff in their cockpits that directly affects yours. So if the AI is switching off AP, it’ll switch off your Autopilot too.
I thought the devs had fixed this issue in the last month’s patch.
See if you can do the same thing we all did with this issue. Switch your graphics settings to use Generic model for AI and Multiplayer. See if it makes a difference.
I set mine to not use generic models though, so I’m not sure why I’m no longer getting that issue.
What I do know is that sometimes livery creators build their aircraft.cfg the wrong way. Most of them set the liveries to use the same model and cockpit for AI traffic, which will not only drops significant FPS, but also resulting in this quantum entanglement issue.
Every time I find a new livery that I like I always have to “correct” those configs appropriately, to make sure AI traffic don’t get full model and cockpit.