Enable Coupled Autopilot Visual Approach on Epic 2

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I wish to have Coupled Autopilot Visual Approaches enabled on Epic 2 equipped aircraft. As of MSFS 2024 SU1, those would be the Pilatus PC-12 NGX and PC-24.

Current state: Visual Approaches are selectable as Procedure Approaches within Epic 2. However, they are NOT coupled to Autopilot and do not generate a synthesized Glide Path to guide on vertically. The player must handfly the approach from the Final Approach Fix.

Source: Confirmed by Tracernz (Working Title Dev who was part of the Epic Build) - the feature is available per Pilatus/Honeywell documentation as shown by the dev, but not currently implemented.

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Just to clarify, as he mentioned, the feature is an optional feature on the Epic units IRL.

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Since this optional feature provides not only a straight-in but also a left-hand or right-hand downwind pattern coupled visual approach in the real aircraft, it will not be trivial to implement this in the simulator. As desirable as this would be, one should not expect it to be realized in the short term (if WT takes up the subject at all).