Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
Set AP to NAV mode with GPS as CDI. Watch it NOT follow it.
PC specs for those who want to assist (if not entered in your profile)
Irrelevant. High-end
Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
1.16
Are you on the Steam or Microsoft Store version?
Steam
Did you submit this to Zendesk? If so, what is your ticket #?
Not yet
Can anyone help diagnose what’s going on? I have been flying since release in ALL kinds of aircraft and have never encountered this until yesterday. I do have 2% deadzones set up on my Thrustmaster TCA Airbus stick. Take a look at all the AP modes activated. Now please notice that the course indicator on PFD (the magenta GPS arrow) does not AT ALL match what is on the MFD as far as the flight plan. The direction is not even remotely close. And I don’t understand why this is happening. Any insight? This drives me crazy today trying to figure this out.
4000 nautical miles seems a “bit” excessive too! Might be trying to do a great circle route for some reason. Definitely not right!! I’ll see if I can replicate the issue tomorrow and see if I can help nail the issue down.
I recall several threads on the “flying north” bug, so you might do a search on that and see if anything matches your problem.
Regards
THANK YOU… I also stumbled upon this… That Control Panel/Region/Administrative/Locale Beta option was checked in Windows! I NEVER enabled it. I wish Windows and its updates would stop whatever this is… I have yet to test it, but I have a feeling this is gonna fix it. Fingers crossed.
YUP! That completely fixed it. I bet that’s also why the VFR map on the Denmark Bush Trip today was all messed up. That locale option completely messes up the sim’s navigational capability. Asobo may want to look at that and see if there is a way to make that option NOT mess things up. Cause P3D worked fine today (apparently with that option enabled!)… I SPECIFICALLY tested autopilot in P3D to see if it does the same thing and if it’s joystick related. A2A’s Cessna 172 followed the flight plan perfectly.
Yeah. The credit goes to someone else. But it’s amazing that it’s the most RANDOM ridiculous thing that has nothing to do with the sim that will actually kill your ability to navigate in MSFS! You can’t make this up. I dare you, enable it and watch your Autopilot fly north and report things that are 35 NM away as actually 4000 NM away.
I am flying right now so Windows won’t let me take a screenshot. Go to Control Panel (select things to be listed by Snall Icons), now click on Region. In that click Administrative tab. Click Change System Locale. On the bottom of that window, there is a checkbox labeled “Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support”… MAKE SURE IT’S NEVER CHECKED.
My brain explodes when I try to figure out what in the world that has to do with autopilot and where things are located in the world of MSFS!
